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Mail Day

Envelope on a collage sent by Laura (UK).

Good Job & Bad Job

The sender (Rosemary, Canada) made a good job preparing this envelope, full of details I love.

The postal workers, however, decided it was a good idea to ruin the stamps with a sharpie...

Pink!

Front and back of a letter in a decorated envelope, sent by Laura (the UK).

Sunday Stamps | Write a Letter

Today is World Post Day so, for Sunday Stamps (Your Choice), I decided to display stamps with a favourite theme: letters!

I like the mise en abyme idea of a envelope on a stamp, on an envelope...

Transport de la lettre
France, 1997

Augustin-Alphonse Marty, 1862-1940
France, 2017

Elderly and mobility
Netherlands, 1995

Handwriting recognition, TNT Post 1980
Netherlands, 2010

Spain, 2020

P.S. Write Soon (National Letter Writing Week)
USA, 1980

Drawing the Summer - III

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Envelope sent to Laura (the UK).

Drawing the Summer - I

Sent to Heleen (the Netherlands). Probably this drawing only makes sense to the recipient...

I am happy to see it travelled well.

Let Us Enter the Enchanted World of Stamps

Someone at the post office did not read the message and penstroke the stamps of this letter sent by Alan (the UK).

And another one, still to be replied...

Everything Is Pussyble

Altered card I sent last year, to celebrate the International Women's Day.

What Can You Do with All Those Machin Stamps?

The colours and combinations of Machin stamps on envelopes seem infinite, and they produce always gorgeous envelopes, like this letter sent by Alan.

You can even use those for mail art (not postage). It would had never occurred to me to stick the stamps in the way John did:

Sending Birds

Watercolour pencils bird
Sent to Alan (UK)

Watercolour bird
Sent to Phillip (the USA)

Naomi's template + colours pencils
Sent to John (the UK)

Colour pencils
Sent to Fabienne (France)

Envelopes

Sent by Julia (Russia), Laura (the UK) and Julia (the USA).

This Is Air Mail

Back 

Just in case you hadn't noticed when you saw the front of the envelope...

Front

Sent by John (the UK).

I Like These Stamps

A letter sent to Alan (the UK), with some favourite stamps.

Sunday Stamps from Canada

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is... no theme: Your choice.

I hope you will enjoy the stamps on this letter sent by Rosemary (Canada) at the beginning of December. It was a great surprise.

13 May 2011. Se-tenant stamp showing two unusual methods of mail delivery: the ponchon (large barrel) used in 1910 in order to transport mail between the Magdalen Islands and the mainland; and the dog team, that persisted in remote Canadian regions until the early 1960s. (More information.)

28 May 2006. Samuel de Champlain Surveys the East Coast. A joint issue with the United States - that features Champlain's 1606 exploration of the east coast of North America. (About this stamp.)

18 May 1984. Tall ships visit.  An estimated one million people will gathered in Quebec City from 25 to 30 June 1984 to greet a large spectacular procession of tall ships, many of which will have sailed from Saint-Malo, France. The voyage honours the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's first voyage to North America. (More information about the stamp.)

25 October 1984. Canadian Locomotives, 1860-1905: CP Class D10a 4-6-0 Type. This stamp, designed by Ernst Roch of Montreal, continues the series begun in 1983 and shot the locomotives against a plain background, which enhances their attractiveness and complexity. (Read more about this issue.)

Dear Autumn Mail,

Keep coming!

Markets

Postcard featuring the impressive building of the Markthal in Rotterdam (the Netherlands), sent by Heleen.

The postcard was written on 22 April 2019. Coincidentally, the stamps stuck on the back were issued the same day six years before.

A market in Canterbury (the UK). Hand-made postcard sent by Laura.

A traditional shop in Palma, sent by Lluïsa.

Air Mail Labels

Some of the new mail labels that I have been getting lately...

Official

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lithuania

South Africa

Taiwan

United States

Non-official