Who Is Alex Trebek?

Alex Trebek (1940-2020) is a Canadian-born American who hosted the general knowledge quiz show Jeopardy! for 37 seasons (from 1984 to 2020).

This stamp, issued on July 2024, evokes the style of the game, in which a provided answer prompts contestants to respond with the appropriate question. The grid of 20 identical stamps resembles the array of video monitors that form the Jeopardy! game board. 

It is a clever design! Actually, until I did not read "Forever-USA", I thought it was not a stamp at all!

Lady Jane Grey

Another stamp from this neat set, sent by Alan (the UK). I wonder if Lady Jane Grey feels really comfortable next to Elizabeth II...

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Hamilton

Autumn colours on this multiview postcard sent by Violet (Canada). And a lighthouse!

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
November theme: URBAN

• Week 1 - Aerial views
• Week 2 - Street views
• Week 3 - Harbours, port views
• Week 4 - Multiviews

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Mir

Getting as much as possible of these Peace Stamps was my 2023 postal project. I did not expect to receive more of them this year, but Aleksa offered to send the Serbian one. Although it took more than one month to reach me, it did eventually!

Long Live Snail Mail

Lilli sent this cheerful letter from Hawaii, able to cheer up everybody!

Letters to Santa

I have sent two letters to Santa Claus. Do you think he is going to reply? Probably not, as he is so busy this time of the year!

Sunday Stamps | Life Magnified

Zebrafish / Mouse brain neurons / Acon barnacle

When I published this post, I wrongly thought that I had already got all the Life Magnified Stamps. But the rest of stamps arrived later.

Oak leaf surface / Read blood cells / Starling bone tissue

Macaw parrot feathers / Moss leaves / Human hair

Freshwater protozoans / Blue button organism / Mold spores

Moth wing scales / Flame lily pollen / Arranged diatoms

Diving beetle front foot / Freshwater snail tongue / Moth antenna

Mushroom gills / Barnacle legs

Although not all of this are strictly Small Animals, I thought I could add this post to Sunday Stamps.

Lighthouses on Postcards

Krasnaya Gorka, Russia

The Needles, UK

Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada

Point Prim, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Sent by Laura (the UK), Aleksa (Serbia) and Violet (Canada).

It Is Cold Outside

Collage on a letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Hamburg

A view of Hamburg sent by Angela (Germany).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
November theme: URBAN

• Week 1 - Aerial views
• Week 2 - Street views
• Week 3 - Harbours, port views
• Week 4 - Multiviews

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

150 Years of the UPU

On 9 October 1874, 22 countries gathered to sign the Treaty of Bern, creating the General Postal Union, which would later become known as the Universal Postal Union. A century and a half later, the UPU now unites the postal networks of 192 member countries, having realized its founders’ vision of establishing a single postal territory to serve people everywhere.

The UPU’s theme for its 150th year – “150 years of enabling communication and empowering peoples across nations” – recognizes this accomplishment, and reinforces its commitment to serve all peoples for the decades and centuries to come.

(From UPU's website) 

Throughout 2024, the UPU has been rolling out a series of events and campaigns in celebration. Among them, the issue of commemorative stamps by country members.

Bryon sent me this one from the New York UN's post office, printed by himself.

States Project | The Great Lakes State

I know Michigan is a big state but... 129 lighthouses? That sounds like paradise to me!

(See here all the postcards I have got so far from Bryon's States Project.)

Autumn Colours

Arbutus Wallpaper (Morris & Co.)

Mail sent by Laura (the UK),  Norbert (Germany) and Phillip (the USA).

Sunday Stamps | Underground Railroad

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Cincinnati, Ohio

From the USPS page:

From the time slavery was introduced to the Colonies until it was abolished in 1865, enslaved people tried to escape. This stamp issuance commemorates the Underground Railroad, as their resistance efforts became known. The pane of 20 stamps features 10 sepia-toned portraits of men and women who escaped slavery and/or helped others escape: Catharine Coffin, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Garrett, Laura Haviland, Lewis Hayden, Harriet Jacobs, William Lambert, Jermain Loguen, William Still and Harriet Tubman. Below each portrait are eight lines of text: BLACK/WHITE; COOPERATION; TRUST/DANGER; FLIGHT/FAITH; COURAGE/RISK; DEFIANCE/HOPE; UNDERGROUND; RAILROAD/USA. On the pane’s verso is a map showing the general routes freedom seekers followed and a list of individuals pictured on the stamps with a few words of biographical information about each. Antonio Alcalá, an art director for USPS, designed the stamps using existing images.

Catharine Coffin / Lewis Hayden

Jermain Loguen / Harriet Tubman

William Still / Harriet Jacobs / Jermain Loguen

Catharine Coffin / Laura Haviland / Harriet Tubman

Mail sent by Phillip (the USA). I added it to Sunday Stamps, today's theme being Headshots.

Where to Begin

«Yale tended to wait a few days before opening a letter. He'd sit, finally, on Saturday morning with coffee, consider the thickness of the envelope, and finally slide a finger under the flap. He'd never written back. Not out of spite of stubbornness so much as the fact that he couldn't imagine where to begin.»

Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

Calendars | Italy (II)

Sent to Bryon (the USA) and Imma (PC).

(More envelopes from this calendar.)

Thursday Postcard Hunt | The Book Loft

Different views of a bookstore in Columbus (Ohio, the USA), sent by Phillip.

 It seems like the paradise of books: 32 rooms!

I believe their slogans are true:

• A Bookstore Unlike Any You Have Ever Seen!
• Not just a bookstore, a destination

Do you think is is possible to walk this street and not to enter the bookstore?

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
November theme: URBAN

• Week 1 - Aerial views
• Week 2 - Street views
• Week 3 - Harbours, port views
• Week 4 - Multiviews

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!