States Project | The Granite State

Here we go with the "new" states of Bryon's States Project, which arrived all together last month, after that mail drought.

Thanks to this postcard, I have just learned that some of the most hated people in the world must be from New Hampshire: those who invented the alarm clock!

Drama (Revisited)

Usually, my postal drama is that I only get mail once or twice a month, while the mail I send usually reaches its recipients in a reasonable amount of time.

But in an unexpected twist, the Christmas postcard I sent my sister on 2 December 2024, arrived yesterday (20 January 2025): a journey of 49 days.

We live in the same town.

A Very Small Letter

Do you think this is a regular letter? It is not! The real letter was inside... and a very small one!

Sent by Laura (the UK).

Sunday Stamps | Grouse

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Birds. I have quite a few in my collection, so today I chose two cousin birds from different countries, whose illustrations I really like.

Western capercaillie
(Tetrao urogallus)
Switzerland, 1968

Sharp-tailed grouse
(Tympanuchus phasianellus)
Canada, 2016

States Project | The Silver State

The States Project postcard for Nevada. I wonder why the state with the large gold mine in the USA is called The Silver State.

And I wonder, again... Why the mail monsters hate these flag stamps so much?

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Cave Paintings

This orange hind belongs to the Cave of Altamira, a cave complex in the Nort of Spain, renowned for prehistoric cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of fauna and human hands. The earliest paintings were applied around 36,000 years ago. 

In 1985 it was declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The cave can no longer be visited, for conservation reasons, but there are replicas of a section at the site and elsewhere.

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
January theme: COLOURS

• Week 1 - Blue
• Week 2 - Green
• Week 3 - Orange
• Week 4 - Pink
• Week 5 - Red

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

32,72 Km a Day

According to the Postcrossing stats, the average time travel of my postcards to Russia is 36 days. 100 days is quite a long time. It is as if this postcard had slowly walked to its destination, in a very relaxed way. 

This is the postcard:

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Relájate = 'Relax yourself'
Relaja te = 'Relax tea'

States Project | The Cornhusker State

The Nebraska postcard for Bryon States Project bears a curious postmark on the back, which indicates the day it was received by the postmaster. Can you appreciate it on the picture? (Now I understand this one!)

Sunday Stamps | Four Lighthouses

The latest Lighthouses on stamps I have got for this week Sunday Stamps.

Lavezzi (Corse, France)

Friedischsort (Germany)

West Quoddy Head (Maine, USA)
American Shoal (Florida, USA)

Love Winter

Collage on an envelope sent by Laura (the UK).

Multiple Postcrossing Accounts

These postcards arrived from Hong Kong via Postcrossing, a year apart. The one above arrived on 2 February 2023, and the one below, on 3 January 2024.

A couple of weeks ago, when I was sorting through my postcards, I realised that they had been sent by the same person. How that could be? A mistake of the system? It is simpler: she or he holds more than one Postcrossing account.

I do not really understand what is the aim of having more than one account. And that is what Postcrossing says about having multiple accounts:

Postcrossing does not welcome multiple accounts per person. The project is designed with safety and fairness in mind and for that, certain limits have been applied to each account. By having more than one account, those restrictions no longer apply, creating several problems for other members and for Postcrossing as well. [...]

We occasionally tolerate that one person holds more than one account if within a reasonable amount, and only if we see strong evidence of proper usage. But, we still do not welcome such practices and we strongly discourage anyone from doing it. Postcrossing monitors the project for multiple accounts held by a single person, and we reserve the right to delete any such accounts without warning.

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Verulamium

Roman theatre in Verulamium, a town in Roman Britain. It was sited southwest of the modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England.

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
January theme: COLOURS

• Week 1 - Blue
• Week 2 - Green
• Week 3 - Orange
• Week 4 - Pink
• Week 5 - Red

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

States Project | The Magnolia State

The design of the postcards and stamps of the States Project are older than three years. So, they do not include recent changes. For instance, the flag.

The current Mississippi flag, adopted on 11 January 2021 and it includes, effectively, a magnolia:

Reasons to Write

This is a calendar of official and unofficial observances created by LetterMo. You can download it from here as a pdf, if you want to.

Star of Light

Although the Christmas season finishes today, I think it is the right time to upload this postcard received by Heleen (the Netherlands) last year. It shows the Three Wise Men, pictured by Anton Pieck.

Letter sent by Alan (the UK).