Postal History Boutique

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Celebrate national postal history through mail art exchanges embracing stamps, postcards, envelopes, stickers, postboxes and whatever else anyone comes up with. Managed by Valentine Mark Herman.

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Leap Year : : 29 February 2016 19 Replies

It only happens twenty-five times in each century, that odd day on the calendar, 29 February. What a great opportunity to sneak in some postal history to your mail art this year.At the end of this…Continue

Started by Keith S. Chambers. Last reply by Heleen de Vaan Jun 22, 2016.

FIVE: Postal History Boutique Special July Mailing 123 Replies

Bonjour boys and girls! Angie and Snooky told us yesterday that:"This year July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens once every 823 years."I propose that we celebrate it…Continue

Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) Jul 26, 2011.

Stop stealing the UK's postboxes (and making them into mailboxes, too)!! 2 Replies

From today's UK Daily Telegraph Postboxes stolen and sold on eBay for thousandsBritains world-famous red Victorian postboxes are being stolen by criminals who sell them abroad for thousands of pounds…Continue

Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by Valentine Mark Herman Jun 28, 2011.

A postal experiment 2 Replies

In the very early days of the postal system -- and going way back before postage stamps were introduced (in the UK in 1840 -- addresses were very simple, or even non -existent (and of course there…Continue

Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by John Tingey Jun 21, 2011.

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Comment by Mim Golub Scalin yesterday: there was a rally on Thursday morning at our main post office.
about 75 people showed up. I didn’t see anything in main stream media but I’m sure people showed up across as the country. I’m fearful that one day I’ll show up at our branch postoffice and it’ll be closed.

Comment by holly johnson yesterday: 24 yrs with the USPS. We had a great mgr that would remind us that our mission was to "move the mail". Working in a rural area you see just how important it is, still, to this day. Just another one of the orange man's moves that Makes America Gag Again.

Comment by David Stafford yesterday: Hear, Hear...I second that emoticon

Comment by Keith S. Chambers yesterday: btw, those of you in the USA... Trump is talking about privatizing the USPS. Normally, I wouldn't take this GOP talking point seriously, but the Trump-DOGE wrecking-ball is doing a lot of damage and selling off parts of the Federal Government is a real possibility at the rate they're going. Please, disrupt the disruption... it is the peoples' mail system... No corporate overlords wanted...

Comment by Mikel Untzilla yesterday: Mikel Untzilla 180108

Comment by Keith S. Chambers on March 14, 2025 at 12:13am: Received this postcard today, noticed the cancellation mark in the lower left corner (upside-down from the addressing). Cool little mail truck with wavy lines (an abstraction of a waving flag, but also, maybe, an indicator of speedy delivery). Just sharing here at the Postal History Boutique (Thanks Angie!).

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 21, 2025 at 7:43am: for Penelope: I checked with the US Postal Service online:

this stamp is a 1972 issue:

Comment by Mikel Untzilla on February 19, 2025 at 7:16am: Isabelle Vachon 250204

Comment by Mikel Untzilla on January 18, 2025 at 3:26pm: Orlando Nelson Pacheco Acuña 250113-1

Comment by Mikel Untzilla on January 6, 2025 at 9:16pm: Maria Grazia Martina 241122-1

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