Too Many Letters Waiting to be Answered...

Etc.

(You know who you are.)

Wedding

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Summer Mail X | Sea Bath

 

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

The Mail Adventures of the Smelling Roses

On 14 May, Correos issued this stamp dedicated to the 70th anniversary of a Rose Garden in the Parque del Oeste (='West Park') in Madrid.

I bought a 7-stamps set like this one, the surprise was that it smelled like roses! So, I used the sheet to add some sweet scent to letters to Portugal, the UK and the USA:

And now, for the odd mail adventures: two of them were posted on 14 July, but got postmarks on 22 July. The third one was posted on 16 July in the same mailbox and postmarked the following day, 17 July. How do you explain that?

And still an extra mail adventure for the one I sent to the UK: it arrived open (meh!) but luckily nothing was lost in way. And it got two postmarks, from Correos (22 July) and Royal Mail (25 July).

Sunday Stamps | Mekk Elek & Little Donkey

Stamps issued in 2024. The puppet film series Mekk Elek the Jack of All Trades was first broadcast on the Hungarian state television channel MTV in 1974 and the series ran until 1975. The protagonist is Elek Mekk, a goat who advertises himself as a handyman. His house is adorned with 13 trade signs, showing the jobs that he is skilled at. He then makes a mess of the jobs he is given one after another and sometimes even causes damage while doing them (Read more).

2024 & 2025 stamps. The puppet film series The Adventures of Mirr-Murr the Tomcat was completed in 1975. The puppet series, a sequel to The Adventures of Little Donkey (on the stamp). Read more.

The stamps arrived on this envelope sent by Micu (Hungary), and I thought they fit in today's Sunday Stamps theme: Children's Stories.

Lady in Red

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

The Caffeinated Octopus

Collage on an envelope sent to Phillip (the USA).

Sending Happiness

Front and back of a letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Rabbit Mail

Letter sent by Lilli (Canada), with a hug-shaped card inside!

Fifteen Years

Can you believe this blog is 15 years old?

Enjoying Spring

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Year of the Fire Horse [OUT]

Mail sent to Heleen (the Netherlands), Fabienne (France) and Phillip (the USA).

Chocolate Packaging [OUT]

Envelopes made of chocolate packaging, sent to Fabienne (France), Bryon (the USA) and Phillip (the USA). It seems they lost some stamps during their journeys...

Let Spring Begin

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Come on, Postal Services

People make efforts to send nice envelopes: drawings, stickers... Then the postals services add these wonderful oversized white labels!

From Catherine (France) and Erica Fustero.

Paper Doll Envelope

I saw these nice envelopes Marina made from a paper doll book pages... And I have got one of them!

Spring & Tea & Letters

Collages of stickers on spring letters sent to Phillip (the USA) and Laura (the UK).