Halloween Time

Tonight, upon your pillow
Close your eyes and hide your head,
For the fairies and the goblins
Will be hovering round your bed.

A traditional Halloween postcard sent by Bryon (the USA). I am glad it arrived on time!

And another one sent by Phillip (the USA). The stamps with the vilains are perfect for a scary card!

If you want something really frightening... What about these real mummies? The postcard show a mummies museum in Guanajuato (Mexico). On the picture, there is supposed to be the smallest mummy in the world. 

As a curiosity, the postcard arrived with this paper attached (with a staple). I had never seen a customs declarations form for a postcard.

The postcard was sent on 11 August, and arrived on 26 October.

Happy World Post Day!

Sunday Stamps | Bikes

Today's theme is Sunday Stamps is Motion. I don't know why, but I thought immediately of bikes.

Postal bikes, as in this series from the UK:

The post is delivered by bike all around the world: Hungary, Mexico...

But bikes aren't only for postal workers. It is for all kind of people: the milkman (I mean, when there were milkmen...), students, elegant couples, shoppers, athletes...

Bikes are for all kind of people! Even for... other people:

Had you realised how often bikes appear on stamps?!?

Sunday Stamps | Guitars

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Singers or Musicians. I found some guitars in my collection...

2015, Spain
Narciso Yepes

2016, Mexico
50th Anniversary of the La Rondalla de Saltillo

1993, USA
Bill Haley

1994, USA
Robert Johnson
(This stamp was a bit controversial...)

2013, USA
Lydia Mendoza

2014, USA
Jimi Hendrix

Sunday Stamps | Postworld Landmarks

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Commemorative. It is difficult to choose among the many stamps that commemorate all kind of people and events!

I went for post-related important milestones commemorated by different countries:

For instance, the 500th anniversary of Royal Mail. I think I had already uploaded other stamps from this serie. More information here.

A stamp commemorating the 50 years of the establishment of postal codes in Belgium was issued on 18 March 2019:

On 1 August 2016, Correos de Mexico commemorated the 160th Anniversary of the First Mexican Postage Stamps. They came in five colours (according to the rate), and featured the image of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a leader of the War of Independence:

Send Me More Succulents...

For I love them!

Echeveria

Faucaria tigrina

Lophophora williamsii or peyote / Agave

Sunday Stamps | U for Universe

I received this postcard of the sun from Posted Letter, with this thermochromic ink stamp of the solar eclipse, that I had previously featured on a post.

It gave me an idea to look for more stamps related to the theme Universe, for the letter U of Sunday Stamps.

Pluto and New Horizons
31 May 2016
(USA)

Express Stamp - Space Shuttle Challenger
22 June 1995
(USA)

Jupiter Room in Guiana Space Centre
50th anniversary of CNES (French Space Agency)
17 October 2001
(France)

World Space Week
6 October 2016
(Mexico)

I hope that any scientist will not be offended if I include in this post the following stamps...

Boba Fett (Star Wars)
20 October 2015
(UK)

Star Trek
2 September 2016
(USA)

Star Trek
27 April 2017
(Canada)