Sunday Stamps | G Is for Gender Violence

Every year, Correos (the Spanish postal service) issues a stamp dedicated to Civic Values -a set of behaviours that is considered positive for the development of society. The theme in 2020 was No to Gender Based Violence.

This is my G-stamp for this round of A-Z Sunday Stamps (dedicated to women in Mail Adventures).

Sunday Stamps | F is for Feminist

Simonne Monet-Chartrand (1919 – 1993) was a Canadian labor activist, feminist writer, and pacifist.

The stamp were issued in 2023, along with two more stamps featuring Léa Roback and Madeleine Parent. All three women were born in Montréal and were lifelong advocates for women’s and workers’ rights and other causes. You can read more about them in the Canada Post online magazine.

This is my F entry for the A-Z Sunday Stamps.

250 Years of US Postal Service (1,2)

In 2025, the United States celebrates a milestone: 250 years of postal service. This collection of postcards have been released one a month. All 12 align to form a timeline spanning from 1775 to 2025.

1.

This postcard commemorates the establishment of the United States Post Office by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia on July 26, 1775, and highlights Benjamin Franklin's appointment as the first Postmaster General. Received 25 March 2025

2.

This postcard commemorates the first issuance of postage stamps by the U.S. Post Office in 1847, marking the beginning of prepaid postage in the United States.

Two stamps were introduced:

• A 5-cent stamp featuring Benjamin Franklin for letters weighing less than 1/2 ounce and traveling up to 300 miles.
• A 10-cent stamp depicting George Washington for deliveries to locations greater than 300 miles or for letters twice the weight of those covered by the 5-cent stamp.

Postcards sent by Bryon (the USA).

Special Letters from Portugal

Stamps and postmark about Art déco, issued on 25 August and arrived only four days later.

Stamps commemorative of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal. He made himself a knight on his own account in the Cathedral of Zamora (nowadays, Spain) in 1125. Some years later, in 1143, the Treaty of Zamora recognised Portugal as an independent kingdom.

The envelope bears a special postmark from Zamora.

Both envelopes sent by Pedro (Portugal).

Sunday Stamps | E Is for Equality of Opportunities

Although I do not understand the text, I found out that these 2012 Turkish stamps are dedicated to Ensuring Equal Opportunities for Women and Men. The illustration is supposed to represent the world on the shoulders of men and women.

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I am showing women related stamps for this new A-Z round in Sunday Stamps. Go there to see more E-stamps!

Sunday Stamps | D Is for Duchess

Rachel Meghan Markle (born 1981) is an American member of the British royal family, media personality, entrepreneur, and former actress. She is married to Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, the younger son of King Charles III.

She became a princess of the United Kingdom upon her marriage to Prince Harry, entitled to the style of Royal Highness. After her marriage, she was styled "Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex", being the first person to hold this title.

See more D-stamps on today's Sunday Stamps.

Summer Mail - XII

Two bright yellow stamps feature closeups of SpongeBob’s face wearing goofy smiles. A third stamp showcases a host of Bikini Bottom characters including Sandy Cheeks, Patrick Star, Plankton, Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob, Gary, and Squidward Tentacles. The fourth stamp shows SpongeBob and Patrick frolicking on the sandy ocean floor. The selvage design is in blue with a Tiki-style flower pattern.

Created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, SpongeBob SquarePants quickly became a success following its official debut on July 17, 1999. 

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Thanks, Bryon! 

Sunday Stamps | C Is for Country Singers

The Carter Family was an American folk music group that recorded and performed between 1927 and 1956. Alvin Pleasant "A.P." Carter and his wife, Sara, joined with sister-in-law Maybelle to perform a repertoire of original tunes and traditional folk songs laced with a strong gospel emphasis. Some of their signature numbers included Wildwood Flower and I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes.

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For the new edition of Sunday Stamps A to Z, I have decided to show some of the stamps I have got on letters and postcards, related to one topic: women. This is the post for the letter C.

Postcrossing Meeting in Boalsert/Bolsward

Sent by Heleen (the Netherlands), with matching stamps on the back featuring the city of Boalsert/Bolsward.

Sunday Stamps | B Is for Belcourt

Christi Belcourt (born 1966) is a visual artist, environmentalist, social justice advocate, and avid land-based based arts and language learner. She is most well known for her large painted floral landscapes of Metis beadwork.

This stamp was issued in 2024, and belongs to the Indigenous Leaders series, launched in 2022.

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For the current round of Sunday Stamps A-Z I choose stamps dedicated to women. You can see here the list of all the Women on Stamps featured on this blog.

Go to Sunday Stamps  to enjoy more B-stamps.

Sunday Stamps | A Is for Anneke & Aussem

Welcome to a new alphabet round in Sunday Stamps! For this new A-Z round I am (again!) showing stamps dedicated to women, among those that I have received. Starting with A...

Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817 – 1884) was a German writer, feminist, and radical democrat who participated in the Revolutions of 1848–1849. In 1849, she moved to the United States, where she campaigned to end slavery, agitated to enfranchise women, and ran a girls' school.

Cilly Aussem (1909 – 1963) was a German tennis player. She was the first German, male or female, to win the singles title at Wimbledon,  in 1931.

Both stamps were issued in 1998, and belong to the series Frauen der deutschen Geschichte (='Women in German history'), a definitive stamp series issued in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin from 1986 to 1990, and in reunited Germany 1990 to 2003. 

Fishing Season in My Mailbox (II)

The Whitefishes, 2007
Gregory Lee Blackstock (1946-2003)

Sent by Bryon. See also here and here.

Sunday Stamps | Christmas in July

I do not really understand the celebration of Christmas in July, but this is the first stamp that came to my mind...

Go to Sunday Stamps to see more Christmas-in-July stamps.

Dog Bite Awareness

I guess the slogan on these postmarks is even more rellevant for the bunnies on the stamps.

And on this stamp it made a curious collage:

Sunday Stamps | Dreamy Blue Landscapes

Go to Sunday Stamps to enjoy more Blue stamps!

Tusello

Tusello is a service that allow you to turn your images into Correos stamps. There are some restrictions regarding images of people, but most illustrations are permitted. So, if you are willing to pay the extra fee, you can design your own stamps and even appear on them.

I got this stamp from a pen pal who works as a postal deliverer. She received the stamps as a gift for her 50 birthday. How cool is that?

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)

It Is So Nice When People Appreciate Your Letters

Front and back of a letter sent to Pedro (Portugal), with my first mailzine.

Angry Machine

I got this postcard from China through the Postcrossing site. It shows, according to online translators, the Orange Island bridge in the city of Meili Xingcheng. 

There are always many special details in mail that travels from so far away. On the back of this postcard, the commitment of the postal machine surprised me!

Chinese Hwamei (Garrulax canorus)
New Year Greetings stamps
2011

The Great Wall (Ming dynasty), Yumenguan
2016

(Printed on the postcard)

Summer Mail - II

Postcard sent by Bryon (the USA), with a watermelon label.

Some stamps do not seem stamps at all:

From Phillip (the USA), I have got the complete series! And the First Day cancellation.