Sunday Stamps | X-Y-Z

X Is for X

Y Is for Yellow

Z Is for Zebrafish

This is the last entry for this A-Z round in Sunday Stamps. It has been full of fun.

Sunday Stamps | D Is for Different Shapes

Most stamps are rectangular, but some have other (odd) shapes...

Update: I see in the comments that the Dutch stamp is a winner. I have only got one of these stamps, but it belongs to a sheet of odd-shaped stamps:

Picture taken from here

For more D-stamps, visit Sunday Stamps.

Official & Unofficial Mail Labels

Austria

Finland

Netherlands

United Kingdom

United States of America

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Traditional Dresses

Urk (Netherlands)

Ohcejohka/Utsjoki (Lapland, Finland)

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
September theme: LEARNING

• Week 1 - Legends, Children's Stories
• Week 2 - Famous People
• Week 3 - National Parks
• Week 4 - History (Could Be Historical Buildings)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Finland

Micu sent me this postcard in January (actually, from Hungary). I think it shows the museums network in Finland.

But, when I first became a postcrosser (in 2008), there were a lot of Finnish users. Some people complained because they got "too much" postcards from Finland. That was never a problem for me. Usually, postcards and stamps from Finland are very nice!

Along the years, I have received quite a few maps of the country...

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
February theme: MAPS

• Week 1 - Country
• Week 2 - City or Metro/Transportation
• Week 3 - With Pictorial Landmarks
• Week 4 - States/Provinces/Counties

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Sunday Stamps | Call Me Duck

Velvet scoter (Melanitta fusca)
Finland, 2017

Ferruginous duck (Aythya nyroca)
France, 1993

Eider Duck (Somateria mollissima)
Netherlands, 2003

Wood duck (Aix sponsa)
USA, 1991

Fake duck
USA, 1985

Different kinds of ducks for today's Sunday Stamps, dedicated to Birds. 

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Laundry Day

Kallio (Helsinki, Finland)
By Simo Rista, 1970

Sent by Tuula (Finland).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt

March theme: FASHION

• Week 1 - Traditional Folk Costumes
• Week 2 - Streetwear
• Week 3 - Formal of Fancy Dress
• Week 4 - Headgear

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

European Capitals (Postcrossing)

Vienna (Austria)

I got this postcard from Vienna last November, through the Postcrossing site. I like to read postcrossers profiles and know about their preferences. Sometimes people are quite specific, and funny. There are also some people who are not, but they ask for postcards like "a view from the capital city of your country". 

Browsing among my received postcards, I have found that getting postcards from the capital cities is not as common as you might think. Maybe is just that I do not ask for them. But these are almost all the European capitals I have got as Postcrossing postcards.

I think it is curious that I have never received postcards featuring Berlin, Lisboa, Madrid...

Zagreb (Croatia)

Tallinn (Estonia)

Helsinki (Finland)

Rome (Italy)

Riga (Latvia)

Vilnius (Lithuania)

Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

Warsaw (Poland)

Bratislava (Slovakia)

Sunday Stamps | Glass

 Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Glass. Handle with care!

American Glass
United States, 1999

Glasswork - Roman Glass Work, Zohor
Slovakia, 2021

Métiers d'art - Vitrailliste
('Artistic professions - Stained Glass Crafter')
France, 2021

Arabia of Finland Dinnerware - 150 years
Finland, 2023

Send Me More Lighthouses!

Rönnskär
Finland

Southwold
England, UK

Schleimünde
Germany

Postcards sent by Leila (Finland), John (the UK) and Christa (Germany).

Sunday Stamps | Peace

I have got the EUROPA 2023 Peace Stamp from several countries. It is a pleasure that it keeps arriving. This time, from Finland, Czech Republic and the Netherlands.

But there are still a lot of missing countries in my collection-to-be.

If you wish to swap this stamp (or swap it for a postcard, envelope, etc.), just let me know!

The envelope sent from Franc (the Netherlands) contained a lot more of stamps on the same topic: Peace. A beautiful gift!

And this is also a post for Sunday Stamps, dedicated today to EUROPA Stamps.