Postbox Saturday | New Box

I am so used to mail boxes being removed forever that I was really surprised to see a renovated one! The picture above above was taken last month, in the same spot that the postcard below, from December 2021. 

(Actually, the whole area is being renovated. And the pillar box has a new companion.)

Some of you have already got mail posted in the new one!

States Project | The Tar Heel State

A new installment of Bryon's States Project brought the North Carolina postcard. I had to look up the origin of the nickname, the Tar Heel State.

I wonder if there is a rivalry between the states of North Carolina and Georgia, because of Pepsi/Coke.

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Women Relax

Art photographer Kim Taylor Reece is best known for the Hula Haniko images. This card was sent by Lilli from Hawaii.

Lady Agnew of Lochnaw is an oil on canvas portrait painting of Gertrude Agnew. The painting was commissioned in 1892 and completed the same year by the American portrait artist John Singer Sargent.

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
March theme: WOMAN

• Week 1 - Working
• Week 2 - Relaxing
• Week 3 - Reading, Handwork
• Week 4 - Famous Women

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Sad News From Denmark

PostNord will deliver its final letter at the end of 2025

Mail from Denmark, received in 2013 and 2002, from Heleen and R.

M11

This stamp was issued by Correos on 11 March 2024 to commemorate (?) the 20th anniversary of a terrorist attack in Madrid. As you can read in Correos website:

[...] Twenty years later, it is important to remember and honour the victims, as well as reflect on the legacy of this tragic event. The collective memory of those dark days should serve as a reminder of the fragility of peace and the importance of solidarity and unity in times of crisis, something that should strengthen the social fabric that unites us as a society. [...]

It seems to me, however, an odd and sad issue.

States Project | The Beehive State

There must be a reason why the Utah state bird is the California Gull and not the Utah Gull... But I do not know it. The States Project postcards never cease to surprise me!

Sunday Stamps | Les Rencontres d'Arles

The EUROMED postal theme in 2023 was Mediterranean Festivals. France issued a stamp about the photographie festival Les Rencontres d'Arles.

The stamp is based on a photograph by Alessandro Mosalini. It shows a visitor looking at a photograph by Mitch Epstein, exhibited at the Montmajour Abbey during the summer of 2022.

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Warm Vacation Locations. I hope it looks warm enough to you!

Women Belong in All Places

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.

Card sent by Phillip (the USA), with a quotation by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the USA.

The stamps honouring her were issued on 2nd October, 2023.

I got this postcard on 8 March 2024.

Year of the Snake (I)

Sent by Phillip (the USA). I love the bright accents of these New Year stamps!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Medieval Hardworking Women

Female labourers bringing in the harvest, from the Luttrell Psalter, 1325-1340.

Herrad of Landsberg and her community, a lithographic facsimile of the Hortus Deliciarum de Herrade Landsperg: Miniatures du XIIe siècle, 1877.

Postcards sent by Laura (UK).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
March theme: WOMAN

• Week 1 - Working
• Week 2 - Relaxing
• Week 3 - Reading, Handwork
• Week 4 - Famous Women

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

My Foot!

Letter sent by Imma (PC).

Completely Unexpected Deliveries

(Updated)

The American Museum in Britain
Claverton Manor, Bath

Just the day before the floods of the end of October, unaware of the danger, I posted six pieces of mail in this mailbox. It seems they did not pick them up, and the following week I saw the mailbox was out of service. So, I assumed the box had been flooded and the letters destroyed.

The pillar box has remained unoperational for not less than three and a half months*. I had already given up hope but it looks like they emptied it in February. From February 13 to March 21, four five all  the letters and postcards reached their recipients in different countries, postmarked on February 12.

Maybe we can still wait for the remaining two one to arrive, right?

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*March 8: It is unoperational again!

States Project | The Lone Star State

One among many other curious thing about this new States Project postcard: Why the Texas states bird is the Northern Mockingbird? (Same as in Arkansas and Florida, by the way).

Oh... And is there a state verb?!?

The flag stamp made me immediately think of the following one, which I love

Sunday Stamps | Women & Music

All styles of musicians & Singers from different countries for today's Sunday Stamps' topic: Famous Women.

Marian Anderson (1897-1993)
Contralto
USA, 2022

Roza Blaglanova (1922-2011)
Soprano opera & pop music singer
Kazakhstan, 2022

Maria Callas (1923-1977)
Soprano
France, 2023

Patsy Cline (1932-1963)
Country and Western singer, songwriter and pianist 
USA, 1993

Eleanor Collins (1919-2024)
Canada's First Lady of Jazz
Canada, 2022

Elisapie - ᐃᓕᓴᐱ (1977)
Musician
Canada, 2024

Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972)
Gospel singer
USA, 1998

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973)
Gospel singer, songwriter and guitarist 
USA, 1998

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (1916-2024)
Singer
India, 2015

Bessie Smith (1894-1937)
Jazz & blues singer
USA, 1994

Kate Smith (1907-1998)
Contralto, The First Lady of Radio
USA, 2010

Dinah Washington (1924-1963)
Rhythm & blues singer and pianist
USA, 1993

Mail in February

I am afraid my 2025 postal project consist of counting how many days I get mail. 

Do you think February was any better than January?