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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on December 4, 2012 at 5:13am

I have been volunteered: thank you. But I don't do haptic, or asemic or any of those -ics.
The carousel thing didn't work -- it's too long-drawn, and if any one person doesn't play their part then the whole thing collapses.
I'm unclear what the basic concept here is, and so....
What we need to do is to decide amongst the following:
* are we swapping (any old) stamps?
* are we making thematically-themed Mail Art with stamps? Are these works then supposed to be deconstructed, so that the recipient can get off all or some of the stamps?
* or is it Mail Art with stamps (I've been doing this since I joined IUOMA) on pieces that are meant to be left intact?
* or...? Dunno, you tell me.
Val

Comment by vizma bruns on December 4, 2012 at 1:34am

Well, I like orange ones and hot pinky ones..

and I love design objects, raised/embossed stamps, pop art/graphic, really old looking, contemporary art ones. Hard to say really without seeing them!

Maybe we should send 20 stamps to a person, like on the carousel, then keep the ones you love and then add and pass on the next 20? Or would the last person get all the crappy ones. Hmm, dunno.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 4, 2012 at 12:13am

Blue minimal banana snakes eat art=cheese choco glam haptic asemic zalop cat-dog-mice postage stamp size arty slide...would say Erni, ya think?

Comment by vizma bruns on December 4, 2012 at 12:10am

Year of the snake? Oh no!!! I had that this year already!!

I'd like to do a bundle of stamps swap, but I don't know how to incorporate snakes... um, make a snake of stamps on string? 

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 3, 2012 at 11:55pm

Greek Post increased international mail from 75 euro cents to 78 euro cents,

that was before the summer, and they had better not increase it for 2013...

the good thing about it is that 78 cents is for a postcard and also for a letter

or closed envelope up to 20 grams...thus I send in envelopes!

HELLenic POST!

Comment by vizma bruns on December 3, 2012 at 11:43pm

Oh Angie, you guys are lucky! To send a postcard or letter around Oz costs 60c, and to send a pc to you costs $1.60. A letter to you is $2.35. Don't even talk about chunky parcels...cos I have no idea.

I think I need sponsorship!!!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on December 3, 2012 at 4:05pm

I knew that the House of Windsor has German roots, but this is quite rrankly ridiculous.

Deutsche Post DHL (I have a feeling it should be either one or the other) seems to be delivering the Queen's parcels.

(As see on a van in York, England, last Thursday.)

 

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 12, 2012 at 2:01pm

Mmmmmm,

I hope the choco Belgium stamps are lick'em kind and not self-stick?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 12, 2012 at 5:54am

This'nt Postral History but it might interestyou /amuse you/get your taste buds working' etc. (IT's from a British paper sometime last week)

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Letters with Wonka's stamp of approval

 

Belguim is planning to issue Willy Wonka-style stamps that taste and smell of chocolate.

In the spirit of the Roald Dahl character, the Belgian post office will pay tribute to the country's chocolatiers in the special stamps to be released next year.

"With such stamps we prove our sense of modernity and innovation", said John Thijs, the post office chief executive

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What next  I wonder? Belgium produces hundred and hundreds of great beers, and I hope Mr Thijs will manage to incorporate their taste and smell in a series of stamps.

Comment by yves maraux on November 7, 2012 at 7:35pm

                     CITÉ SCHWEITZER-LAENNEC. Après l’agression d’une factrice en août, la Poste a décidé, par « mesure de sécurité », d’installer les boîtes aux lettres hors des halls. Une décision qui est loin de faire l’unanimité parmi les habitants. | (LP/M.V.)

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