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Thursday Postcard Hunt | London Buses

Trafalgar Square in London, and the iconic double-deck red buses.

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
May theme: COLOURFUL

• Week 1 - Trees/Flowers
• Week 2 - Skies
• Week 3 - Wildlife
• Week 4 - Buildings
• Week 5 - Vehicles (trains, buses, boats, cars)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Enigmatic Postcards

I have got this postcards through the Postcrossing site, from China and Russia. No clues on the back. I have used online tools to read them... but certain degree of mystery remains!

Typewriters

'Those who have nothing to say
now say it on Twitter'

Cards sent by Fabienne (France) and Heleen (Netherlands).

Postcards from the Peaks

Hi, I’m Stu and I’ll be carrying a cast, iron Royal Mail Post Box in flip-flops to the highest point in all 15 of the National parks in the UK to combat loneliness by sparking meaningful connections and conversations.

Go to Postcards from the Peaks to know more about this unusual challenge and how to participate.

Sunday Stamps | City Birthday

On October 27, Amsterdam will celebrate its 750 anniversary. Along with other celebrations, PostNL released a special stamp sheet. This sheet contains 5 unique stamps designed by Amsterdam-based designer Michiel Schuurman.

And I have got almost the whole set!

Go to Sunday Stamps to see more stamps on the theme City/Urban.

Lighthouses from France

Sent by Catherine and Fabienne (France).

And this postcard, featuring some places I visited long ago, in Brittany (France), made me think of this other card sent by Fabienne...

C'est à moi ? Ça!... (='Is this mine? This!')

Fishing?

I do not get that often stamps from the United Nations in Geneva.  This one belongs to the 2024 United Nations Endangered Species. It celebrates the Itaituba river stingray (Potamotrygon albimaculata), illustrated by Brazilian artist Julia Izabela.

It was on the back of a postcard sent by Bryon. It arrived together with another postcard from the same sender, bearing the following stamps, featuring close-up photographies of popular Freshwater Fishing Lures!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Blue Delft

I guess the houses are not so blue in real Delft...

Postcard sent by Ania (the Netherlands).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
May theme: COLOURFUL

• Week 1 - Trees/Flowers
• Week 2 - Skies
• Week 3 - Wildlife
• Week 4 - Buildings
• Week 5 - Vehicles (trains, buses, boats, cars)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Spring Cow

Back and front of a collage sent by Fabienne (France). I cannot decide which side I prefer!

And Not Only Daffodils!

Not only daffodils, but the spring mail has brought tulips, wisteria...

Letters sent by Laura (the UK).

Only to Have them Returned

«Així la Penèlope escrivia cartes a l'Ulisses i les enviava a adresses desconegudes només perquè les hi tornessin i sentir totes les mans que l'havien estat buscant.»

Joan Barril, "Fer i desfer" (201 Contes corrents)

[Update 10 July 2025: I just realised I have already written the same post ten years ago...]

Sunday Stamps | Scottish Heraldry

Today's Sunday Stamps topic is Shields, Crests, Heraldry. The following stamps were issued in 1987. They belong to a 4-stamps set commemorating the 300th Anniversary of Revival of Order of the Thistle.

Arms of the Lord Lyon King of Arms

Arms of Royal Scottish Academy of
Painting, Sculpture and Architecture

Nothing to do with Scotland (as far as I know). But, when I was writing this post, I got the following stamp, issued in 2018, to commemorate the centenary of Russian Diplomatic Courier Service.

Current Mode: Reading Letters

Letter sent by Imma (PC), with a drawing on the envelope.

Letter sent by Rosemary (Canada).

States Project Update

One year ago, Bryon started a project with the Alabama postcard.

From May to December 2024, he accomplished this big postal project: sending me a postcard from the capital city on every USA state, with matching stamps: Greetings from America (2002), the state birds (1982) and the state flags (1976).  See here all the postcards.

The list of the  States Project postcards sent in order of arrival (although they were sent in alphabetical order):

1. ARKANSAS
2. CALIFORNIA
3. COLORADO
4. DELAWARE
5. CONNECTICUT
6. ARIZONA
7. ALASKA
8. HAWAII
9. GEORGIA
10. IDAHO
11. ALABAMA
12. FLORIDA
13. INDIANA
14. ILLINOIS,
15. IOWA
16. KENTUCKY,
17. KANSAS
18. LOUISIANA
19. MAINE
20. MARYLAND
21. MICHIGAN
22. MINNESOTA
23. MISSISSIPPI
24. NEBRASKA
25. NEVADA
26. NEW HAMPSHIRE
27. NEW JERSEY
28. NEW MEXICO
29. NEW YORK
30. OHIO
31. OREGON
32. MONTANA
33. SOUTH DAKOTA
34. TEXAS
35. UTAH
36. NORTH CAROLINA
37. NORTH DAKOTA
38. OKHLAHOMA
39. PENNSYLVANIA
40. RHODE ISLAND
41. TENNESSEE
42. WISCONSIN
43. WYOMING
44. VERMONT
45. WASHINGTON
46. VIRGINIA
47. WEST VIRGINIA
48. MASSACHUSETTS
49. SOUTH CAROLINA -- No project is perfect. Out of 50, 49 postcards landed. MISSOURI is still missing!
50. MISSOURI