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(CNN) – If 2020 could take the form of an object, it would surely be toilet paper.
Not only has this year been horrible, but reports of people stockpiling toilet paper in large quantities during the coronavirus pandemic will live in the memory of many.
Or so some in Austria seem to think: On Friday, the country’s postal service announced that it will issue a postage stamp made from three-ply toilet paper, to commemorate one of the strangest phenomena of the year.
Each stamp, which is just under four inches long, will be the size and shape of a standard sheet of toilet paper, Austria Post said on Friday.
Customers can even use the stamps to reinforce social distancing: 10 stamps lined up next to each other are one meter long, the recommended social distance in some countries.
Meanwhile, the stamps are illustrated with a picture of a baby elephant, another national reminder of the recommended distance of one meter.
The stamps, which can be ripped off the stamp block along a perforated line like toilet paper, come complete with a self-adhesive foil and retail for 2.75 euros (about $ 3.25), he said. Austria Post in a statement.
The postal service will release 300,000 stamps on October 30, and for each block sold, 2.75 euros will be donated to charities, Austria Post said in a statement.
“With the Corona stamp, we not only want to issue an original stamp block to remember this year, but also to support those who have been particularly affected by this crisis,” Austria Post CEO Georg Pölzl said in a release.
This story was first published on CNN.com, “The Austrian postal service is printing special Covid-19 stamps on toilet paper.”
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