Some posts ago, I answered these questions regarding my experience as letter writer, suggested by Hannah of Rose Tinted Crafting. I asked you to do the same, and Heleen (the Netherlands) did. She sent her answers by snail mail, on the back of these postcards. So it was a long letter indeed. You do not know how much a person can write on the back of a postcard until you receive mail from her...!
Needles to say that I adore these four mail boxes that made me think of the four seasons.
Great postcards. Those smaller modern postboxes don't look like they protect the contents from the snow and ice very well.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought about that!
DeleteTo my experience it is no problem, even in rainy and snowy weather the mail stays dry (or did you ever receive wet mail?), as there is a kind of valve at the inside of the slot/trench to protect against that kind of weather.
DeleteThe biggest threat is in the last days in the year, because then fireworks are sold. Those days some non-thinking kids like to throw fire-crackers into mail boxes. Therefore the Post company shuts the mailboxes with a special bar on 30th of December each year.
How interesting! Here there are fireworks constantly. But fortunately, people don't throw them into mailboxes. I mean, in general. One day, in the village where I used to live, some youngsters set fire to a mailbox (and burnt some letters written by me!). It was a big scandal in the village.
DeleteYou must take a picture of the bar!
Ah, the flap is not visible in the postcard picture.
DeleteHow fun -- love the red PO boxes and the idea of cramming a lot into a series of postcards. In fact I just posted about that!
ReplyDeleteIt's a good idea.
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Well done Heleen. I love her multi-postcard letters.
ReplyDeleteI adore them!
DeleteThank you, John and Eva. The two of you always make me happy with your great and adorable postcards/lettets!
DeleteI am happy to know that these four arrived safe and sound! By the way, I have to find/create a postcard of the common Dutch mailboxes, as none of these four are in my city! There's an old pillarbox at the Haarlemmermeer station in Amsterdam, at the Museum Tram's start- and ending place, and I 've seen the modern small one in a village, both about 7 kms from my place :-)