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 Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 26, 2012 at 7:58am: Happy Birthday Angie!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 25, 2012 at 7:34pm: Tomorrow is postal history:

Angie's birthday!!!

Getting post stamp and gifts ready:

Comment by vizma bruns on May 6, 2012 at 1:50am: Hey Mr Postman, look and see, is there a letter, a letter for me??

Deliver de letter de sooner de better...! Great piccies Val!

Comment by David Stafford on May 5, 2012 at 4:56pm: Let's go with the original story, Angie. It has more punch. Val, sacre bleu...you are the Postmaster of Sigean Fame!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 5, 2012 at 3:33pm: oops, not her "house" but her "home" for 35 years...her "home town area"!

Well, even that is pretty special...on a postage stamp for a mail artist!

Good going, M. Keen! And Marguerite Keen is the mysterious "Piccadilly Post" that some one recently received, yes?

Would love to send her something in the mail, hope we get an address soon!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 5, 2012 at 3:24pm: My dear Valentine...you are soooo handsome with that La Poste hat!

May you never remove it (the profile pic, I mean ;-)

Thank you, Angie...how fantastic, to be a mail artist and have your house on a postage stamp!!! Bravo UOMA member Marguerite Keen !

Comment by Suus in Mokum on May 5, 2012 at 7:05am: Proficiat! Real postal treasures.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 5, 2012 at 5:27am: Bonjour!

I have got a Postal History la Poste hat -- bought at a vide grenier/flea market last week for €5.00.

Here it is -- with a French postbox at the local Post Office.

And with the latest version of the La Poste postbox (designed to take mini-mail)

Val

Comment by vizma bruns on May 1, 2012 at 3:41am: Not unless he sends her champagne and diamonds in the mail.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 30, 2012 at 7:50pm: From yesterday's Sunday times:

"Stamp collector Steve Knight took his Royal Mail obsession to new heights after remodelling his garden shed into a 1950s post office. It has its own telephone line, which is connected to the national network through a vintage 1937 exchange. There are also original sign, scales, stamps and uniforms.

'I started collecting letter boxes and it just grew from ther: I now have 115 dotted around the garden, 'said Steve, who is from Essex. 'I am very lucky to have such an understanding wife'."

(I extend my sympathy to Mrs Knight who I don't think deserves to be labelled 'lucky'.)

Val

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