Why? Because Mail Art!

[Vel Crowe]

* You always grab extra copies of free neighborhood newspapers and magazines.

*You go out of your way to take religious and political tracts, flyers, handbills, handouts, Scientology personality tests and crazy person literature on the street.

*There are four pairs of scissors, three craft knives and a box cutter, a pack of Gem blades, Scotch Tape, packing tape, masking tape and electrical tape, fourteen bottles of nail polish, a broken 12" ruler and six kinds of glue in your art supplies box.

*People on five continents know your name and address.

*you figure stamps, postcards and glue into your weekly budget.

*the desk clerk at your residence assumes that anything weird in the mail must be for you.

*comic book collectors literally faint when you cut pix and speech balloons out of old comics.

*you have stacks and stacks of magazines and newspapers in languages you can't speak or read.

*you can eyeball measure postcard and envelope sizes.

*you can _almost_ draw a perfect circle, square, star, Valentine heart or equalateral triangle freehanded.

*you can heft an envelope in your hand and know how much it weighs in stamps.

[Richard Canard]

24.09.17 Dare Mister Vel Crowe,  ...You are a either a prophet ("For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul".---Mark 8:36) or a psychic (sidekick) & or you knew me in another life. Thanx for posting. SinCelery, Richard Canard

[Nancy Bell Scott]

o  Other friends don't know what you're talking about.

o  You're incapable of throwing out an envelope, used or not.

o  Your mate sacredly delivers semi-interesting ad cards to you from the mailbox, assuming they're mail art.

o  You paw through your own garbage cans, and steal from them.

o  You take it as a fundamental violation when the longevity of the postal system is questioned.

o  You wish you'd paid more attention to Carlo Pittore when he talked your ear off at 1989 art union show.

o  When you die, your leave-behinds will be ultra-global no matter what a hermit you were in life.

o  Maps leap off the paper and pulsate like the creatures that inhabit the places they represent.

[Vel Crowe]

Something sort of like your third one happened to me just the other day! Me and my boyfriend came in together, so I asked for our mail. when we got on the elevator i checked out what the clerk had handed me -- a postal card with a funny looking design on it that i assumed was art mail for me. since i wasn't wearing my spex i got Racer to read me the return address on it -- it turned out to be *his* mail! (a reminder abot an appointment w/someone) that was just creative and funny-lookin'.

[Mim Golub Scalin]

All of the above. People in my family come to me to see what postage they should put on a letter or package because of the last one, I am so this person. AND, I know a lot of US zip codes by heart And I have my traveling Mail Art kit ready at all times. Discuss! ha ha ha

[Bonniediva]

You've just described my studio and my life!!! Thanks, Vel