19 March 2024

You Can Send Dragons


Envelope made by Fabienne (France) out of an old magazine, that arrived safe and sound despite the paper being thin.

18 March 2024

Doubts, Doubts!


Card sent by Phillip (the USA). The envelope got got a clear Leap's Day postmark.

17 March 2024

Sunday Stamps | Green Reptiles


Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Snakes, the colour green, or an Irish stamp. I found none of those, but a couple of green reptiles.

16 March 2024

Happy St. Patrick's Day


Sent by Laura (the UK).


Sent by Brian (Ireland), from a Postcrossing meetup.

15 March 2024

Spring Is Coming

Or, at least, spring letters are coming!



Sent by Laura (UK) and Rosemary (Canada).

14 March 2024

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Laundry Day

Kallio (Helsinki, Finland)
By Simo Rista, 1970

Sent by Tuula (Finland).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
March theme: FASHION
  • Week 1 - Traditional Folk Costumes
  • Week 2 - Streetwear
  • Week 3 - Formal of Fancy Dress
  • Week 4 - Headgear
Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

13 March 2024

Happy Maslenitsa


Maslenitsa/Мaсленица also known as Butter Lady, Butter Week, Crepe week or Cheesefare Week is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday which has retained a number of elements of Slavic mythology in its ritual. It is celebrated during the last week before Great Lent; that is, the eighth week before Eastern Orthodox Pascha (Easter).

Postcard sent by Eduard (Russia).

12 March 2024

Loving Chicago Is...


I got this postcard from a friend visiting Chicago. Now I need someone from Chicago to explain me whether it is true, and how they know.

11 March 2024

Leap Year's Day


I like to post every piece of mail in the due day... But I cannot wait four years to show you the Leap Day postcards sent by Heleen (the Netherlands). With leaping frogs also on the back!




She sent two postcards, hoping that at least one would get a "29 February 2024" postmark. The post office made a great job here, and both of them are beautifully postmarked in the due day.



By the way, this girl is very fond of weird days...

10 March 2024

Sunday Stamps | Opera Singers

Lilly Pons / Richard Tucker

Lawrence Tibbett / Rosa Ponselle

I do not think opera singers had appeared before on this blog! These stamps date from 1997 and belong to the big American Music Series.

This is a post for Sunday Stamps. Today's theme is Music.

09 March 2024

Snail Mail My Email

Snail Mail My Email is a community art project where volunteers transform strangers’ emails into handwritten letters, free of charge.

2,000 volunteers have artistically interpreted and collectively sent 29,249 letters to 80 countries since the project began in 2011.


Want to have your email turned into a beautiful handwritten letter?

Well, you’re in luck. ICYMI, our team is running it back with SNAIL MAIL MY EMAIL and for a very limited time, our network of amazing volunteers will transcribe your email into snail mail and send it to your intended recipient, anywhere in the world, free of charge.

To participate, simply email snailmailmyemail@cashstudios.co with the following info:
1. Recipient’s Full Name and Address 📬
2. Your letter, no longer than 800 characters ✏️
3. Pick ONE custom option to include in the letter:
🌸Flower Petal
👃Spray of Perfume
🎨Doodle
💋Lipstick Kiss

08 March 2024

Empowered Woman

"The first thing about empowerment is to understand that you
have the right to be involved. The second one is that you have
something important to contribute. And the third piece is that
you have to take the risk to contribute it."

Mae Jemison is an American engineer, physician and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space in 1992.

The OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) is a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission, launched in September 2016 and returned in September 2023. The stamp shows a capsule containing a sample of the asteroid Bennu parachuting down to Earth.  

Sent by Phillip (the USA).

07 March 2024

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Romanian Kids

This is a Postcrossing postcard from Romania. There was not any explanation on the back, but I like it and I think it fits the topic.

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Thursday Postcard Hunt

March theme: FASHION
Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

06 March 2024

Made of Packaging

Envelope sent to Fabienne (France) made out of the wrapping of a coffee packet.

Finestres  - Llibreria per llegir
'Windows - Bookshop to reading'
Postcard (sort of) made out of packaging from a bookshop. Sent to Bryon (the USA).

05 March 2024

Old and New Lighthouses

Ameland (Netherlands)

Sopot (Poland)

Heceta Head (Oregon, USA)

Postcards sent by Heleen (the Netherlands), Ania (Poland) and Lisa (the USA).