Kraslice post office begins special Easter stamps

The post office in the west Bohemian town of Kraslice has begun stamping Easter postcards with a symbol of the Christian holiday, a week before it begins. Kraslice is the Czech word for Easter egg. To get the Easter stamp people must send a stamped addressed postcard in an envelope by April 13, a spokesperson for Czech Post told the Novinky news website. The Kraslice post office puts Easter symbols on tens of thousands of cards at this time every year. However, numbers have fallen somewhat, due to the popularity of email and mobile phone text-messaging.