Postal Silliness

Sometimes, tiny details on the envelopes or the back of the postcards make me smile...

Sunday Stamps | Waterfalls

Dark Hollow Falls, 
Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

For today's Sunday Stamps, dedicated to Waterfalls & Rivers, the three stamps I have got from the 2023 USPS series Waterfalls.

Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River
 Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Grotto Falls
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee

Year of the Snake (II)

Year of the Snake postcard sent by Bryon (the USA) with perfectly matching stamps.

Same from the Netherlands! I like that Heleen included the stamp with the selvedge (which actually got the postmark).

States Project | America's Dairyland

Although it is not the state with the highest rate of cows to people (spoiler: it is Vermont, according to these postcards), Wisconsin is nicknamed America's Dairyland. To the point that people from Wisconsin, and especially the Green Bay Packers fans, are called Cheeseheads. 

I had to look up almost everything that appears on this postcard. Clearly, I did not know nothing about this state!

You can see here all the States Project postcards sent by Bryon and so far uploaded.

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Spring Flowers

American Museum & Gardens
 Bath (UK)

Plaza Mayor
Burgos (Spain)

Rye
(UK)

Postcards sent by Laura (the UK & Spain).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
April theme: SPRING

• Week 1 - Spring Flowers
• Week 2 - (Song)Birds
• Week 3 - Easter-y Things
• Week 4 - Gardens

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Music City & Music Mail

The Tennessee postcard I uploaded the day before yesterday arrived together with this one sent by Phillip (the USA), celebrating the music city... with the most appropriate stamps:

Actually, it is not unusual to get musical mail. This postcard was sent by Pawel (Poland), is a poem for children to learn the alphabet in Kashubian language.

On this envelope send by Micu (Hungary), there is a stamp that celebrates Veszprém as a 2023 European Capital of Culture. 

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Happy (Mail) Year

This postcard was written by Bryon in January. It got a postmark in that month, and then another in February. Eventually, it reached me the last week of March. But we are still in 2025, are not we? 

States Project | The Volunteer State

This is the first of the States Project postcards sent by Bryon that bears a 2025 postmark: 2 January 2025, and it arrived on 23 January 2025 (along with other 7 delayed postcards!).

I would always associate Tennessee with music, but other facts caught my attention, like Dollywood, S'mores (without the mess?), the nickname The Volunteer State...

Sunday Stamps | Charles de Gaulle

These stamps were issued on 9 November 1971, as an hommage to French general and statesman Charles de Gaulle.

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Military.

Postbox Saturday | Santes Creus

An almost hidden post box in a medieval cloister! It is the old cloister of the hospital Sant Pere dels Pobres (13th century) in the village of Aiguamúrcia (Catalonia). It belonged to the complex of the Royal Monastery of Santes Creus.

I did not use it, but it is a working mailbox.

States Project | The Ocean State

There are several facts that I find fascinating about these postcards. The first one in the nickname of the states. Why Rhode Island is The Ocean State, and not any of the states close to the oceans? Another one is the variety of postmarks. So far, I think I have not received two identical postmarks (And... how dirty is this one!).

All in all, this is a very interesting postal project!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Doctors

Nadezhda Prokofyevna Suslova (Надежда Прокофьевна Суслова, 1843 – 1918) was Russia's first woman medical doctor. She arrived in Russia in 1854, and a year later received a diploma of Doctor in Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics.

"Not only was [Jane Wright's work scientific,
but it was visionary for the whole science of oncology."
Dr. Sandra Swain, The New York Times

Jane Cooke Wright (1919 – 2013) was a pioneering cancer researcher and surgeon, whose new chemo techniques saved millions of lives.

This postcard was matched with the most appropriate stamps:

Sent by Eduard (Russia) and Phillip (the USA).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
March theme: WOMAN

• Week 1 - Working
• Week 2 - Relaxing
• Week 3 - Reading, Handwork
• Week 4 - Famous Women

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

March Drop

I had not received mail since February 10th. Two days ago a mountain of postcards and letters reached me, sent from different countries between Octubre (?!) and March.

It will take ma a while to get through this pile. If you are expecting a reply from me... please, be patient.

States Project | The Keystone State

Probably you have not noticed, but this the only postcard of this project that have the flag stamp above the Greetings from stamp!

A lot of interesting facts about this state, and important inventions. I especially enjoyed the reference to Punsxutawney. 

Bryon's States Project postcards and stamps.

I Follow You

I am not on social media, but there are some blogs I read regularly, and some newsletters I suscribe to.

Elan Ullendorff, of Escape the Algorithm*, announced the Escape the Algorithm ᵐⁱᶜʳᵒsupporter Program in February. Contrary to other newsletters, to become a paid subscriber of the newsletter, you can pay money, but also "perform a tiny act of codependence". Suggestions include sending a postcard; although my postcard cannot compete with gifts like a jar of Danish raw honey... I really like the idea of "soften the para part of our parasocial relationship".

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*Escape the Algorithm is a newsletter about taking control of our attention and finding a more human side of the internet.