Mail Adventures: 01.22

30 January 2022

Sunday Stamps | Lunar New Year

I haven't got any Year of the Tiger stamp yet. But, for today's theme in Sunday Stamps, I am glad to show these stamps sent by my friend Heleen from the Netherlands:

29 January 2022

Almost One Year

This postcard features, according to the sender, Chong Qin's food... Which looks delicious to me! It was sent on 8 February 2021, and arrived on 4 January 2022. So... it travelled during 330 days!

27 January 2022

Light the Darkness

LIGHT THE DARKNESS

Holocaust Memorial Day

27 January 2021

Visit www.hmd.org.uk

Sent by Laura (the UK).

26 January 2022

The New Normal Snowman

Letter sent to Heleen (the Netherlands).

25 January 2022

(Not Exactly) Russian Buildings

Smolny Cathedral

The house of the merchant Zharov in the 80s, Miass

Emir of Bukhara's Palace
In Uzbekistan. But postcard sent from Russia.

Postcards sent by Olya, another person named Olya and Vera (Russia).

23 January 2022

Sunday Stamps | Country Maps

Some original maps of different countries for today's theme in Sunday Stamps:

The Netherlands
Network of Lights, 2015
(See here the complete set)

Hungary
Hungarian Meteorological Service 150th Anniversary, 2020

Canada
James White & 100th Anniversary Atlas of Canada, 2006

Belarus
Coat of Arms, 2016

22 January 2022

#xtremephilately

Do you know the hashtag #xtremephilately? It was first used by @ExploringStamps back in 2017, and it is used now for philatelists around the world.

Extreme philately consists on taking a picture of a stamp in front of the motive (place, building, person, event, animal, plant, etc.) it features. This has been my first attempt:

Go take a look on Twitter or Instagram.

21 January 2022

The Random Letter Project

Random Letter Project is an interesting project. It is simple: there is a writing prompt every month. If you feel inspired, you write a letter; then, you got a random letter about the same subject sent by another contributer.

You can read on the project site how it works:

WRITE YOUR LETTER
Monthly we'll post a new topic to write about. Write as much or as little as you'd like.

SEND YOUR LETTER
Random Letter Project
6929 N Hayden Road C4
#502
Scottsdale, AZ 85250

WAIT
A random letter from another person who contributed will be dropped in your mailbox when you least expect it.

YOUR HOME ADDRESS
Yah, we never share this info with anyone. All letters come to one location and we swap them from one envelope to another.

BUT HOW?
When you send your letter, be sure to include your return address on the envelope. We'll use those details to send you a random letter back.

YOUR LETTER GETS A NEW ENVELOPE
Just want to reiterate - we swap your letter from one envelope to another. Don't worry about your address being on there. It's what we'll use to send you a random letter back.

I tried in November and got my random letter back. No letter received for my December letter, though.

20 January 2022

Another Postal Mystery

This letter was sent by Bryon to Canada on 7 March 2020, to be postmarked with the special postmark of the Apple Blossom Festival. But it only get the postmark on 26 October, and reached me on 3 December. I was puzzled when I read it whishing me a happy Spring!

Maybe the festival was delayed, maybe it fell between cabinets in a post office where a janitor eventually found it... Where it was between March and October will remain a postal mystery.