Alphabet 2023

One of the mail delights of 2023 has been the Alphabet 2023 project created by Bryon. Thanks to the collaboration of the chaotic postal services, it started with letter C (so I didn't understood at first). After a while, everything ran smoothly. Except when I decided to disappear into the postal system and Bryon re-sent it; or when five letters showed up together.

Every postcard arrived with matching stamps. Not easy to find them. Especially for letters like X! You can see here all the postcards. Every one has been sent from an American or Canadian city whose name starts with the due letter: Atka, Barrière, Coloma... and so on. Including an E postcard sent form Eva and an U postcard sent from the United Nations in New York. In most cases, even the name of the state matches the postcard: Dagsboro (Delaware), Good Hope (Georgia), Flagler Beach (Florida), Independence (Iowa), Kuttawa (Kentucky), etc.

Just let me know if you are aware of a cooler postal project!

Alphabet 2023 | Z Is for Zion

And on 5 December the last postcard of the Alphabet 2023 project arrived!

Do you think finding Z stamps is too hard? Bryon did: Zebrafish and Zion National Park in Utah (stamps from 1934 & 2009).

Alphabet 2023 | Y is for Yellville

This is postcard Y of Bryon's project Alphabet 2023. This one travelled from Yellville (Arkansas). With the best array of y-stamps you could find!

Can you believe there is only one letter left?!? (Spoiler: Already arrived!)

Yellow Trumpet

Yellow Lady's Nipper / Yellow Skunk Cabbage 

Yugoslavia

Yellow-sided skimmer

Saluting Young America - Youth Month

Yorktown

Alphabet 2023 | X Is for Xenia

This is always the more difficult letter to solve in every alphabet. But, of course, Bryon did it for the Alphabet 2023 project to advance!

It was sent from Xenia, Ohio --It was another riddle to answer, but an easy one thanks to the ZIP code.

I have not have the slightest idea what a Computer generated aerodynamic study of an X-plane is, but I am pretty sure that this is the best X stamp in the world.

Alphabet 2023 | W Is for Wamsutter

This was a difficult one! The W postcard of the Alphabet 2023 project was sent from Wamsutter, Wyoming. 

Who knew there are two stamps dedicated to the Wyoming toad, issued 27 years apart (1996-2023)?

Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River - Wyoming

Alphabet 2023 | V Is for Verona

V is for Verona in Bryon's postal project Alphabet 2023. On this one, all the stamps but one refers to the state of Virginia.

Virginia Bluebells / Stream Violet

Ratification of the Constitution Bicentennial -
June 25, 1788, Virginia / 
Dark Hollow Falls, Virginia

Battle of the Virginia Capes 1781

Alphabet 2023 | U is for United Nations

The U postcard of the Alphabet 2023 came from the United Nations Headquarters in New York, as you see on the colourful stamps. 

The postal services did not spare postmarks: 27 September, 2 October, 3 October... (?). In any case, it took more than five weeks to arrive.

 

Alphabet 2023 | T Is for Tullahoma

It is time for T, sent from Tullahoma, Tennessee! As usual, with matching stamps, two of them issued 50 years apart! 

150th anniversary of Tennessee Statehood

Tennessee Statehood Bicentennial
Grotto Falls, Tennessee

Thank you

Actually, thank you, Bryon, for this fab project!

Five Letters

The rhythm of mail is being erratic this season. For unknown reasons, I suffered from a mail drought last month: no mail at all between 3 and 26 October, when a huge pile of due postcards, letters and magazines landed in my mailbox (mailbag, actually). 

Then, other ten days or so without no mail... And, suddenly, five postcards from the Alphabet 2023 project arrived together, despite of having been sent in the span of several weeks.

I cannot believe only two letters are left!

Alphabet 2023 | S Is for Sacramento

Another letter for the Alphabet 2023 project! It is time for an intricate S, with a beautiful array of matching stamps on the back:

Skylab

Sylvester

Sea Cucumber

San Francisco garter snake

Seeing for me
(German shepherd)

The last one did not survived the postal machines, alas. Below there is an image I found on the net:

Alphabet 2023 | I Is for Independence

So far, all the postcards of Bryon's project Alphabet 2023 had arrived more or less regularly. But I has revealed really independent. Sent some months ago (April, May?), it never landed in my mailbox. Bryon resent it in August. A bit battered, but it finally appeared! It seems it was a long way from Independence, Iowa.

If someone (apart from Bryon and myself) follow Alphabet 2023, you might have noticed that this postcard is different form the rest of the alphabet. Definitely... I wants to be the star of the project!

Anyway, it bears perfectly matching stamps:

Igor Sikorsky
Iowa Statehood centennial 1846-1946

Insulate the home

Independence

Alphabet 2023 | R Is for Romance

Some Alphabet2023 postcards arrive from really cool places. Like R, sent from Romance (Arizona).

About the matching stamps, you will say whether they are or are not cool: Redhead Decoy, President Theodore Roosevelt, Raccoon, Rings. Roanoke logperch.

Alphabet 2023 | Q Is for Quincy

The Q postcard from Bryon's mail project Alphabet 2023 is here, sent from Quincy.

I thought it would not be easy to find Q stamps. But, of course, he did it again.

Quails

Gee's Bend Quilt

Queen Isabella

Alphabet 2023 | P Is for Punxsutawney

Another postcard from Bryon's project! Actually, two, because P and Q arrived together. As the sender wrote, P is full of possibilities.

How many P flowers have their own stamp? At least: Passionflower, Plains Prickly Pear, Pasqueflower and California Poppy.

An interesting stamp featuring Georgios Papanikolaou, inventor of the Pap test:

The postcard was sent from the state of Pennsylvania.

Maybe you cannot appreciate it from the picture, but it was posted in Punxutawney... A place that I really wanted to get mail from!