Eat Me

This envelope sent by Phillip arrived like this, and it intrigued me a lot!

Until I opened it and discovered Alice inside (trying to escape?)!

Goodnight Christmas

I had received some stationery and stamps dedicated to Goodnight Moon (also here)... and now the rest have landed, along with a first day postmark on one of the favourites. Both the colours and the themes look a lot like Christmas!

The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case

Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was a bit of a mail fan. In 1889 he invented "The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case," a little case with twelve separate pockets in which people could keep stamps of different denominations. The stamp case was sold with a little booklet called Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter Writing.

It seems you can still find one of these online for an exorbitant price.

The postcard was sent by Bryon (the USA).

(Pictures taken from this post.)

Sunday Stamps | Vilains

Sunday Stamps is today dedicated to Stories and folk tales. This is a recurrent theme on this blog, and I have used it for recent Sunday Stamps (here and here). So, I thought I was run out of stamps, but I remembered these Disney vilains. I am sure you recognize most of them!

Honest John (Pinocchio)
Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
Captain Hook (Peter Pan)
Scar (The Lion King)

Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)
Lady Tremaine (Cinderella)
Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

Cruella De Vil (One Hundred and One Dalmatians)
Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland)

Pure Love

Love is when the postal services love you so much that they allow you to send mail without stamps! Or maybe that is how it works in Wonderland.

(It was not intentional: the sender just forgot to add the stamps. The envelope, made of a big playing card, arrived safe and sound from the USA, and no further payment was required.)

Calendars | Alice

Front and back of some envelopes made out reused calendars with illustrations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Sent to the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands.

Paper Bags

Envelopes made of bags from bookshops, sent to Laura (the UK), Rosemary (Canada), and Fabienne (France):

Front

Back

Front

Back

Front

Back

One of These Postcards Features a Real Place

Realms of the Imagination
Sveta Dorosheva, 2023

Sent by Phillip (the USA) and Laura (the UK).

Alice Mail

The Guinness Alice

From time to time, Alice-related mail lands in my mailbox. Like the postcard above sent by Heleen (the Netherlands), and the cover below sent by Fabienne (France).

(Although this is an apocryphal quotation.)

The Back of Postcard Can Be As Nice As the Front

Postcards sent by John and Alan (the UK), Eduard (Russia) and Mai (Thailand).

Alice in Wonderland

"It it had grown up," she said to herself,

"it would have made a dreadfully ugly child:

but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think."

The Queen turned crimson with fury,

and, after glaring at her for a moment,

like a wild beast, began screaming,

"Off with her head! Off with --"

Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel, coloured by John Macfarlane. Postcards sent by John (the UK) and Bryon (the USA).

Year of the Rabbit

I wish you a Happy New Year with a small collection of rabbits and hares on stamps!

Belarus

Canada

France

Hungary

Japan

The Netherlands

Taiwan

The United Kingdom

The United States of America