On a day when the new Blackberry Bold 9900s & Torch 9810s are being snapped up by the early adopters, Canada Post recognizes the Blackberry as a Canadian Innovation. With a ‘Waterloo ON 2011.08.17’ Day of Issue cancelation on its first day cover, the new series of 4 Canadian Innovations go on sale today as a booklet of 8. This booklet of eight domestic ($0.59) stamps features four iconic "Made in Canada" leaps of science and creativity. In this philatelic series, the Blackberry is depicted alongside 3 other great Canadian Innovations, being the electric oven, the cardiac pacemaker & the electric wheelchair
From the Canada Post website…. While smart phones and other communications devices, as well as technologies such as push email and mobile apps, are commonplace now, they were nearly the stuff of science fiction in 1999, when Research in Motion (RIM) founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie introduced the now iconic BlackBerry®. Their invention freed information workers from their desks and changed the way the world communicates. Subsequent versions and continuous innovation have kept RIM and its BlackBerry device a front runner in the massive smart phone market.
As a side note, this new series of stamps was designed by the same firm, Q30 Design Inc., that designed the ‘Ted Rogers Sr. Plugging in the Radio’ stamp which was part on the Millennium collection issued early in the year 2000. Rogers Wireless has also been a great supporter of Blackberry, being its first Canadian carrier & fourth in the world. Long live the Blackberry…. spoken like a true RIM shareholder.
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