On Wednesday 7th December, 2011 history was made for both St. Maarten and Postal Services St. Maarten NV, with the handover of the first set of new Tax stamps for country St. Maarten.
On hand for the hand for the official handover at the Receiver's office was the Hon. Prime Minister Sarah Wescott Williams, Mr. Denicio Richardson (Manaing Director PSS) and Mrs. Minerva Gumbs (Act. Head Receivers) on behalf of the Receivers'. After lengthy discussions and negotiations that started since last year 2010, PSS was awarded the contract to redesign and produce the new St. Maarten tax stamps with some minor changes to the previous. PSS had to follow a strict code in reproducing, and was able to succesfully produce and handover the first set of Tax Stamps to the amount of 100,000. The stamps are of high quality and the Receiver office was very happy and relieved to have gotten the batch of stamps as the previous old Antillean ones had ran out. With the new stamps in hand these will be put into circulation very soon and as country St. Maarten, another step again was made in setting us apart and further cementing our own identity.
The Hon. Prime Minister was given the honor to hand over the first of the 100,000 new St. Maarten Tax stamps of the 25 cents denomination on behalf of PSS to the Receiver. This is a first of more projects that Postal Services St. Maarten, will be engaging in to allow PSS in its quest to diversify its business activities.
PSS continues to work on bringing back other arrangements and services back into the post and will updating the public soon on other ventures within short.