The ATMs in Luxembourg

The first Espace POST was opened in early August 2017, in the new (and temporary) POST Luxembourg headquarters in Mercier building on the rue de Reims (images). This Espace POST is located very close to the former post office and the Shop Telecom of Luxembourg Gare, where the new POST Luxembourg headquarters is being built. Other Espace POST locations were opened months later in Dudelange, Marnach and Boulevard Royal, in the center of Luxembourg.

The new Cash & Carry kiosks were developed by the Hytech - PostalVision company based on the SelfPost kiosks installed in Luxembourg from December 2012 (see articles, also published in VARIABLE 27, 29 & 35).

		In addition to the left hand unit equipped with scales for weighing postal items, the new Cash & Carry kiosks are fitted with a scanner under the touch screen for reading barcodes and an additional unit on the right side for payment with coins and banknotes.

But possibly one of the most interesting developments are the new services offered by the new kiosks. As can be seen in the screen shot sequence below depicting comparisons between the SelfPost and Cash and Carry kiosks, the main menu offers two new options. In addition to the direct purchase of stamps by selecting the destination zone and the weight and / or size ('Buy Postage') and the purchase of stamps using the scales on the side ('Weigh & Post'), the 'Cash & Carry' kiosk enables the payment of POST Telecom invoices and the direct purchase of products on display via the bar code scanner.

2019. Multilaterale Luxembourg 2019

Two years after the successful Multilaterale exhibition held in 's-Hertogenbosch, in the Netherlands (see article, published in VARIABLE 46), Luxembourg hosted this biennial or triennial philatelic exhibition that brings together collections from the German-speaking European countries (Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Switzerland), as well as Slovenia and The Netherlands.

Multilaterale Luxembourg 2019 was held from November 8th to 10th at the LuxExpo The Box, a large exhibition center located in the Kirchberg area, northeast of central Luxembourg. The exhibition was organized by POST Luxembourg and the national philatelic association, the Fédération des Sociétés Philatéliques Luxembourgeoises (FSPL), on the occasion of the latter's 85th anniversary.

The philatelic exhibition brought together 78 collections from members of six philatelic federations, in addition to five further collections prepared by POST Philately, the Luxembourg philatelic service, and another 27 non-thematic collections presented by collectors of various national philatelic associations. In addition to the exhibition, this modest philatelic event boasted 25 stands with attendance from dealers, philatelic groups and the philatelic services of the represented countries and Gibraltar.

At the central POST Philately stand, visitors were able to obtain the daily postmarks and purchase the products launched at the exhibition (image below); among them, two joint issues from Austria and Gibraltar, and a commemorative personalized stamp.

		POST Luxembourg reserved one of the booths for the installation of a SelfPost postal kiosk issuing stamps for the first time, with a special commemorative imprint (). It is interesting to remember that at the previous Multilaterale exhibition held in 's-Hertogenbosch there was also a kiosk -in that case an IAR- issuing stamps with a special imprint (see article, and VARIABLE 46*).

The machine temporarily installed at Multilaterale was the SelfPost kiosk number 7, of the Junglinster post office.
During the three days of the show, this kiosk issued variable value stamps on labels with the new 'Luxembourg's Signature' design (see article, and VARIABLE 51) and the 'Multilaterale Luxemburg 2019' special imprint.

With no changes in the user menu, the kiosk offered the printing of variable value stamps with three zone indicators ('Luxembourg', 'Europe' and 'Reste du Monde') and various face values appropriate to the size and / or weight of the postal item.

Commemorative cover with one variable value stamp issued by the kiosk, and the personalized stamp produced by POST Philately, and detail of the exhibition's general postmark.

(*) In 2018 and 2019, at the request of philatelic groups and dealers, POST Philately issued several stamps with special texts printed on the same labels used by postal kiosks, such as the one requested by the Cercle Philatélique d'Ettelbrück for the 32nd collector's fair (see article and VARIABLE 48). Since these are personalized stamps they remain outside our field of study.