Mail Adventures: 10.24

31 October 2024

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Send Yourself on a Postcard

This is a postcard sent by postcrosser Lara (Germany). It is her own design. She depicted herself doing what she love most: reading books in cafés.

How would you like to appear on a postcard?

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
October theme: FOOD/DRINKS

Week 1 - Fruits, vegetables
Week 2 - Sweets, desserts
Week 3 - Markets, cafés
Week 4 - Multiples, multiviews
Week 5 - Wine, beer, tea, coffee

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

30 October 2024

Non-Halloween Mail

Actually, cat-related mail. But it includes one of the Halloween USA stamps (from 2019). I am afraid that USPS does not issue any Halloween stamp this year.

And some non-Halloween crows that arrived together, on letters from Catherine (France ) and Laura (the UK):

29 October 2024

Halloween Meetup

Heleen (the Netherlands) sent this postcard from a Postcrossing meeting held in Breda last year, with a Halloween theme. It got its own personalised stamp matching with the postcard design:

And an upside down pictorial postmark!

28 October 2024

27 October 2024

Sunday Stamps | The Library

Today's Sunday Stamps goes for Public Buildings. My favourite public buildings are always... libraries!

UNESCO proclaimed 1979 as the International Year of the Child, and Correos issued this cheerful stamp celebrating it. The theme chosen was the library ('La biblioteca'). I have not found information about the illustrator, but I love the design. If you look close, you realise that all the users of the library are children, and a curious timetable on the door.

More stamps dedicated to libraries:

26 October 2024

The Wrong Botanist

First day cover from 2013, commemorating the 100th birthday of professor Miklós Ujvárosi issued in 2013.

Sent by Micu (Hungary).

As a curiosity: in 2003, it was issued a stamp dedicated to another Hungarian botanist, Rezső Soó. The portrait on the stamp, though, did not feature the right man but Miklós Ujvárosi. The stamp was quickly withdrawn, but some of those are still in collections. Some philatelists adore collecting freaks and errors!

25 October 2024

Godrevy

By John Hinde

Unexpectedly, I received this summer two very different postcards featuring the same lighthouse: Godrevy, in Cornwall (the UK).

Wild Roses and Harbour, by Emma Jeffryes

Sent by Laura and Ania (UK).

(Another one, from last year, here.)

24 October 2024

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Irish Pubs

I have read that Irish pubs are very common around the world. Certainly, they are in my country! But, for once, it would be nice to visit a real one... in Ireland!

Sent by Laura (Ireland & UK) and Béibhinn (Ireland).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
October theme: FOOD/DRINKS

Week 1 - Fruits, vegetables
Week 2 - Sweets, desserts
Week 3 - Wine, beer, tea, coffee
Week 4 - Multiples, multiviews
Week 5 - Markets, cafés

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

23 October 2024

States Project | The Bluegrass State

Another one for Bryon's States Project. Is it possible to hear "Kentucky" and not to add "FC"? But it seems there is a lot more there.

By the way, notice that Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, and not in the Land of Lincoln.

Not only two, but three states have the cardinal as state bird!

22 October 2024

Rainbow of Letters

Letters sent by Laura (the UK).

21 October 2024

States Project | The Hawkeye State

Sometimes is fun how the postal machines add the postmarks. Not so fun when they do not respect those old stamps!

(Have you seen that the ice cream capital of the world is in Iowa?!?)

Curious that they name the "American goldfinch" on the postcard, and the "Eastern goldfinch" on the stamp as the state bird. According to Wikipedia, the second is a subspecies.