02 April 2025

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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01 April 2025

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? 

31 March 2025

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...




30 March 2025

29 March 2025

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.

28 March 2025

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!




27 March 2025

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
Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

26 March 2025

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.

25 March 2025

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

24 March 2025

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.

23 March 2025

Sunday Stamps | Kampen


Not Campen, but Kampen lighthouse on the island of Sylt (Germany), for my favourite theme on Sunday Stamps: Lighthouses!

22 March 2025

States Project | The Sooner State

I always feel curious about the US states nicknames. I found this explanation about The Sooner State:
In 1889, people poured into central Oklahoma to stake their claims to nearly 2 million acres opened for settlement by the U.S. government. Those who entered the region before the land run’s designated starting time, at noon on April 22, 1889, were dubbed “sooners.”
I like that on the back of this postcard appears Mr ZIP! There is also a postmark indicating it has been missent, but I am not sure about this point. It was postmarked on 10 December, and reached me on 23 January. 





See all the Bryon's States Project postcards.

21 March 2025

The Public Must Be Served Well

«"The post-office is a wonderful establishment!" said she.-- "The regularity and despatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!"

"It is certainly very well regulated."

"So seldom that any negligence or blunder appears! So seldom that a letter, among the thousands that are constantly passing about the kingdom, is even carried wrong--and not one in a million, I suppose, actually lost! And when one considers the variety of hands, and of bad hands too, that are to be deciphered, it increases the wonder."

"The clerks grow expert from habit.--They must begin with some quickness of sight and hand, and exercise improves them. If you want any farther explanation," continued he, smiling, "they are paid for it. That is the key to a great deal of capacity. The public pays and must be served well."»

Jane Austen, Emma, II, 16

20 March 2025

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Kirghiz Girl

The Daughter of Soviet Kirghizia, by S. Chuykov. Postcard sent by Eduard (Russia), with a vintage matching stamp.



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Thursday Postcard Hunt
March theme: WOMAN
Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

19 March 2025

Spring Is Coming


(By train?)

Postcard sent by Yaya-Zhang (China), via Postcrossing.