Much that occurred in the lives of the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1993 to 2003 has been reflected by the postage stamps issued by the Croatian Post Office of Mostar. During these ten years, the system of political administration and national currency changed three times. It should be remembered that the stamps of the Croatian Post Office were first issued while the trumpet blasts of war were sounding in the not so distant year of 1993. In June 1993, from the small Post Office 882266 of Međugorje, the first five stamps were issued by the Croatian Post Office of Bosnia-Herzegovina. This began the philatelic history of one of the three post office operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Zagreb and Zrinski of Čakovec were the mainstays in the creation and printing of stamps. The first stamp, MEĐUGORJE 1993, was designed by Ivica Šiško, a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He was followed by a pleiad of artists, professors from the Academy: Miroslav Šutej, Dubravka Babić, Zlatko Keser and Lovro Artuković. Since 1999, they have been joined by the domestic artists and designers of Grafotisak in Grude: Skoko, Vekić, Vučković, Mikulić, Salavarda, Alilović etc.
The Postage Stamp Commission prepared publishing plans and a series of stamps, first day covers and maximum cards to commemorate significant anniversaries and events, poets, natural sciences, flora, fauna, ethnographic wealth, archeological sites, medieval cities, European themes and family Christmas celebrations. Some of the subjects depicted did not have a happy fate. Mostar, Jajce, Srebrenica and the monastery of Plehan suffered severe devastation from the canon fire of the warring barbarians. However, events of great joy were also commemorated, such as the pastoral visit by Pope John Paul II to Bosnia-Herzegovina. These postage stamps have thus become a tiny mirror of great events.
