Seija-Riitta Laakso is a Finnish writer and philatelist, as well as editor and graphic designer of international philatelic journals and yearbooks.
Development of Overseas Business Information Transmission, 1815-1875[1] was published by the Finnish Literature Society (SKS) in 2007, and as a Japanese edition in 2014.
The book combines maritime history and postal history by studying the routes and speed at which information was transmitted in the nineteenth century, using as examples business correspondence which travelled internationally by sea.
[2] Laakso, originally a historian, worked as a journalist in the Finnish daily newspapers Helsingin Sanomat, Uusi Suomi and Kauppalehti.
She was the Editor of The London Philatelist, the journal of The Royal Philatelic Society London in 2017-2019, The Posthorn, the journal of the Scandinavian Collectors Club (US) in 2017-2022; and The Congress Book, the yearbook of the American Philatelic Congress (US) in 2020-2023.