"@Carl
Yes! In Osaka City, at same venue, on 12 th April, Sunday ! I plan to go and am looking forward to
It ☺️
That is so cool about BABE ! I wish I could attend in UK ! 🍀"
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Received from Medwolf (Saskatchewan, CANADA)
Posted by awyn on March 12, 2026 at 10:23pm 0 Comments 2 Likes
Thanks Medwolf!
Ryosuke Cohen 260311-1 (Brain Cell 1268)
Posted by Mikel Untzilla on March 12, 2026 at 2:04pm 0 Comments 5 Likes
I received CheeseArt from Peter Abajkovics. Yummy thanks! sending something in return.
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another cool envelope from Predrag Petrovic, awesome cards - thank you!
Posted by MH//ANTIPODE on March 12, 2026 at 12:00pm 3 Comments 8 Likes
Postal Delay in the World Due to Current World Situation
Posted by Kiki on March 12, 2026 at 3:37am 5 Comments 2 Likes
Hello everyone !
So, I live in Japan and currently we are experiencing Postal delay for mails to all over Europe and Africa, as in the news on Japan Post website, as of 9th March.
I am not sure yet how long of the delay, though.
How about the Postal service in your country ?
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postcard "Frog invasion in Ukraine"
Posted by MUSEUM OF MAIL ART on March 11, 2026 at 6:47pm 0 Comments 6 Likes
i received Mail Art from corporación semiótica galega
Posted by Zack on March 11, 2026 at 5:44pm 0 Comments 1 Like
i'm guessing this was sent last November, on the 50th anniversary of his death.
i'm choosing to interpret this as a reminder to be patient; no one is around forever...
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Somehow people always think that if a group of artists work together that then there must automatically be some kind of organisation that coordinates it all. Well, in mail art there are many groups working together. These groups themselves also work together, but there is NO organisation that arranges all the things that go on in the mail art network. The I.U.O.M.A. is the Union that mail artists can become a member of. The Union has no rules. Everybody who is active in mail art and hears about the Union can become a member just by saying so.
In 1988 the idea of the IUOMA was born. I invented this name and made forms for people to become a member of this (fictive) union. About 300 mail artists reacted in a year, and official membership cards were made, even a official Union Magazine was published. Anybody who was a member of the Union could also claim a special function within the Union.
Even today, people still join the Union. And somehow it gives power, to say that YOU are a member of the International Union too. It is just the center for archiving all the things that are going on. But I am not in control of the Union. I just invented it. And to make it official, I made myself General-President of this Union. Sure was impressive when I travelled to the USSR in 1991 and went to visit some friends there who were also members of this Union........
Today online on Ning there are thousands of members. On December 2nd 2018 the 5000th member joined in.
Events
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Convocatoria e invitación de Mail art A(rt)viso una Poesía (arte aviso una poesía)
May 26, 2025 to March 26, 2026 – Lo barnechea. Región Metropolitana. Código postal. 7690000.Chile
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FANTASTIC HERBARIUM (VOL.2)
June 30, 2025 at 6pm to June 30, 2026 at 7pm – Firenze, Italy
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The Market Gallery - UK Exhibition Opportunity
July 20, 2025 to July 7, 2026 – The Market Gallery, 15 Market Place, South Shields, UK
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Exhibition – International Mail Art Call – Exercises to Undo the Judgment of the Body (or to Create a Body without Organs for Oneself)
December 8, 2025 at 9pm to April 1, 2026 at 11pm – Federal University of Paraná
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Mail art project for children: Calimero e Grisù
December 21, 2025 at 6pm to April 19, 2026 at 7pm – Italy
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"Oh, I see.... so, everyone in the world seems experiencing Postal delay now, it seems...
It is much much better than no postal service working, though. 😲
@Pam
Thank you a lot! I will also send you my mail art 🤓"
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"Ugh, love the hair! It’s giving punk-chic-retro vibes all at once... and 🤍the hair clip is everything."
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It immediately captured my attention as it deeply resonates with my own aesthetic sensibilities. Beyond that, the visual narrative of the piece has taken center stage. It is technically…"
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paper disc for sander to Maxie verso mar26
"Great. And the stamps look like they haven't been canceled. Only one is valid, by the way.
(6 days for more or less 1300km, that makes around 9 km/h: very slow mail... Ten times slower than an ostrich [wikipedia says]"
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ArtiStamps Creators
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TREES
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Self Portraits
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BRAIN CELL - RYOSUKE COH…
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Spammers Mail-Art
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Ask Anything
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Mail Art Archives
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ADD & PASS - The X Files
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Mail-Art History
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RAK's (Random acts of Ki…
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Richard C. Fan Club
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Show us your Artspace!!!
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Rubber Stamps
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Mail-Art Cafe
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Sponsor Group IUOMA
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Mail-Art Books
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Mail-Art Projects List
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Polls and Surveys - A new one each month!
Forum
Good Art Pens? 85 Replies
What are your favorite pens to use in mail art? I have a few good (sort of) ones for my regular-size collage work -- for applying lines, not for actually writing -- but they aren't turning out to be great for mail-art scale. New ones for writing,…Continue
Tags: pen
Started by Nancy Bell Scott in Technical Details in Mail-Art. Last reply by Carl Middleton 11 hours ago.
News from Moscow: Mail Art to The Garage Museum 4 Replies
In 2019, I wrote on the IUOMA portal:“If you want to get rid of excess postal art, you can donate your collection of postal art to the Museum of Moscow. With my participation in the Museum of Moscow, an archive of postal art for art historians and…Continue
Started by Ilya Semenenko-Basin in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Ilya Semenenko-Basin Mar 6.
Helping to Start a Permanent exhibition on the Island most Far and isolated on the planet 6 Replies
Helping to Start a Permanent exhibition on the Island most Far and isolated on the planet TRISTAN DA CUNHAhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/325192418785691 Please send one of your Art Work…Continue
Tags: Ocean, gallery, Atlantic, South, DA
Started by MoriceMarcuse in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by MoriceMarcuse Mar 1.
MEMORIAL RUGGERO MAGGI "COME UN BATTITO D’ALI” - Progetto a cura di Sandro Bongiani 2 Replies
Ita COLLEZIONE BONGIANI ART MUSEUM OPEN CALL / MEMORIAL RUGGERO MAGGI 2026http://www.collezionebongianiartmuseum.it/ Invito a partecipare al Progetto…Continue
Tags: 2026, Maggi, Ruggero, Memorial
Started by Giovanni Bonanno in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) Feb 18.
Letterpress Xmas Card Collection - Storage Issues 1 Reply
Over the past decade I have been part of a Letterpress Christmas Card exchange - I probably have around 200 hand printed cards.Does anyone have any room for such a collection or would be interested in using it for another project?Drop me a line for…Continue
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Started by Carl Middleton in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Ilya Semenenko-Basin Feb 18.
end of public mail delivery 17 Replies
Alert! For the first time, since January 1, 2026, a country's public service, PostNord in Denmark, is discontinuing mail delivery. If other nations follow suit, it will spell the end of mail art sent through the public system.Continue
Started by nicolas de La Casinière in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Juan Petry Feb 13.
Did anyone see this? Thoughts? 4 Replies
In Kolaj #42, “Bye Bye Mail Art” reflects on the global Mail Art movement and the fragile networks that have sustained it for decades. Rooted in the experimental spirit of Ray Johnson’s New York Correspondence School and Fluxus, Mail Art fostered…Continue
Started by Margaret Jeddry in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Eduardo Cardoso Feb 12.
My Offer : Lots of My Mail Art for You - REQUEST : Donation to IUOMA ! 7 Replies
Hello dear fellow IUOMA members,In short, I would like to monetarily support IUOMA but currently I cannot. So, I thought of this idea that I send you lots of my mail art, mostly made with my hand-carved stamps prints, and in return, you just donate…Continue
Started by Kiki in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Kiki Feb 8.
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"Serbia is officially following 'global trends'—postage prices just went up! Still affordable, but hey, at least we’re staying trendy! 😁😁😁🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣❗"Continue
Started by Zorica Obradović in Mail-Art Discussions. Last reply by Zorica Obradović Jan 17.
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