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Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 21, 2011 at 4:28pm

Going Bananas, thanks to Angie and Diane...I can start a SECOND Anna Banana card! Whahoooo!

This first card was missing only one, so I added a special Chiquita from Mexico, and completed the first line in "blue" ;-) Now , thanks to Angie, I can work on card #2! 

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 11, 2011 at 1:46pm

Be on the look out for envelope and mail art with rare stamp: 11.11.11

(and i am hoping a Greek postal cancellation stamp too?)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 11, 2011 at 5:36am

Hi Katerina! Postal historians pay an awful lot of money for some envelopes (especially late 19th/early 20th ones) that have been sent all around the world and have picked up a weird and wonderful collection of postmarks.

Regards, val

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 10, 2011 at 9:31pm

Once one of my cousins in Chicago sent me a Christmas card and placed the postal code: 54249 AFTER the "Greece"...it traveled all the way to the Fiji Islands, stamped there and on to New Zealand, rubber stamped there as well, and finally arrived at Easter in Greece!

In another more recent case, Cheryl of S.A. addressed her mail art to me as MomKat, and the postgal tossed it on the stairs, probably waiting for the neighborhood stray cat to pick it up?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 10, 2011 at 5:33am

Jen...I can find you somewhere to live here if you like, and guarantee that you will be the one and only 'Jen Staggs, formerly of Dallas, Texas' in the village -- unless the other 6 follow you! Regards, Val

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 10, 2011 at 5:31am

I have some UK letters from the end of the 18th/start of the 19th century in the pre-postage stamp era.They have 'minimalist' addresses such as:

'Dr. Bloggs, Carlisle'

'Mr Smith, Solicitor, Manchester'

'Mr Jones, Writer, Fulham'

And they all got delivered somehow;

Regards, Val

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on November 9, 2011 at 11:24pm

Once a letter was addressed to me by name and a p.o. box using my address numbers but not the street, and my postal code. One of the postal clerk's had a daughter in school with our children, so she knew who we were and sent the mail on to me. That was a surprise.

Comment by Jen Staggs on November 9, 2011 at 8:59pm

Sounds like the UK code is much more clever than the vague US codes.  I would love to just use a last name and a code as an address!  Sadly, with such a huge population, I would probably get mail from the other seven Jen Staggses in Dallas.  Must move to a tiny village in France.  Darn.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 9, 2011 at 8:38pm

Thankyou everyone!

It's now a lot clearer.

For those of us of a certain age who remember the Swinging 6Os before they (or us) were swinging, THE z'Zp-a-dee-do-da 'song is by Bob B Soxx and the Blue Jeans, circa 1962. It was one of the earliest Phil Spector 'Wall of Sound' productions.

To Jen: I can't explain the UK system, I'm afraidf 'cos i haven't lived in the UK since 1977 and don't follow these things closely. What I can tell you is that a postcode in the UK is for a unique house/address. My Mum's is DL3 7TU. DL is short for Darlington, and 3 is the particular sector (i think there are 8)  in the town. 7TU somehow get you to her specific block of flats, sorry appartments. If you know that the postcode is DL3 7TU, you don't need to know that her address is 18 Mayfields, Upland Rd, Darlington. So 'Mrs Herman, DL3 T7U' is all that's needed as an address.

By contrast, the postcode for my village in France is 11130. That's for the whole village, not for any specific address. I experimented with this earlier this year during my 'Envelope a Day' project, and addressed a letter to myself, 'Herman 11130'. It was succesfully delivered, but that's probably because i) Sigean is small (5k inhabitants), ii) I am the only Herman, and iii) the Post Office knows about some of my Mail Art eccentricities. I 'm in a 'Test the French Post Office Project' with JF Chapelle who lives in a town called Merignac, and who told me that if I address an envelope to him as 'JF Chapelle, 33700', it probably wouldn't get to him because there are more Chapelles than mon ami JF.

'Zipn is still rather strange, because it brings to mind 'zip fastener' not ' sone imprvement pmlan' c(whatever that is or was).

Regards, Val de 11130

 

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on November 9, 2011 at 8:26pm

Yup that's the one, Katerina. Such a happy tune. 

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