USPS Bad! I received shredded mail art yesterday :( How did they know where to deliver the mail?
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USPS Bad! I received shredded mail art yesterday :( How did they know where to deliver the mail?
Posted by Penelope Timm on January 14, 2026 at 10:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Thank you MH//ANTIPODE
Posted by Adam Herst on January 14, 2026 at 5:39pm 0 Comments 4 Likes
Want 4x4's?
Posted by jon foster on January 14, 2026 at 4:20pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Let me know if you want a pile of 4x4's to move around.
Below you can read a little more about the project. …
Continuefrom Pizo Meyer - a super cool handdrawn card together with a sticker! Thanks a lot
Posted by MH//ANTIPODE on January 14, 2026 at 2:44pm 1 Comment 3 Likes
From Magda Lagerwerf
Posted by Tomoe N on January 14, 2026 at 10:40am 0 Comments 3 Likes
Mail art from Magda in the Nederland danke
Thank you for the bookmarks
Received from Carl Baker (Ontario, CANADA)
Posted by awyn on January 13, 2026 at 5:48pm 0 Comments 6 Likes
Received from Ed Gieck (Washington, USA)
Posted by awyn on January 13, 2026 at 5:38pm 0 Comments 3 Likes
Thanks Ed!
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Somehow people always think that if a group of artists work together that then there must automatically be some kind of organisation that coordinates it all. Well, in mail art there are many groups working together. These groups themselves also work together, but there is NO organisation that arranges all the things that go on in the mail art network. The I.U.O.M.A. is the Union that mail artists can become a member of. The Union has no rules. Everybody who is active in mail art and hears about the Union can become a member just by saying so.
In 1988 the idea of the IUOMA was born. I invented this name and made forms for people to become a member of this (fictive) union. About 300 mail artists reacted in a year, and official membership cards were made, even a official Union Magazine was published. Anybody who was a member of the Union could also claim a special function within the Union.
Even today, people still join the Union. And somehow it gives power, to say that YOU are a member of the International Union too. It is just the center for archiving all the things that are going on. But I am not in control of the Union. I just invented it. And to make it official, I made myself General-President of this Union. Sure was impressive when I travelled to the USSR in 1991 and went to visit some friends there who were also members of this Union........
Today online on Ning there are thousands of members. On December 2nd 2018 the 5000th member joined in.
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MURMURATION Mail-Art Project
January 24, 2025 at 6pm to January 24, 2026 at 7pm – France
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Convocatoria e invitación de Mail art A(rt)viso una Poesía (arte aviso una poesía)
May 26, 2025 to March 26, 2026 – Lo barnechea. Región Metropolitana. Código postal. 7690000.Chile
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CALL FOR MAIL ART: "SHE SPEAKS: Women’s Voices and Visions"
May 26, 2025 to February 2, 2026 – Lake Worth Beach, FLorida USA
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FANTASTIC HERBARIUM (VOL.2)
June 30, 2025 at 6pm to June 30, 2026 at 7pm – Firenze, Italy
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The Market Gallery - UK Exhibition Opportunity
July 20, 2025 to July 7, 2026 – The Market Gallery, 15 Market Place, South Shields, UK
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Add me as a friend if you would like to follow through and I will…"
"Thank you :-) I am attempting to figure out as to what could be seen in your photo. There is a lot going on there in terms of form, which I too like."
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a knuckle-dragging neanderthal of a newb, is nonplussed 15 Replies
NOTA BENNY, i just posted the same message as a blog post; my befuddlement knows no bounds. f this is not good etiquette here, please cut a rank beginner a break, okay? thanks a zillon!thurs 03/09/2017 15:30THIS ISN'T MEANT AS A GRIPE OR…Continue
Started by Vel Crowe in PROBLEMS. Last reply by stash ephemera on Saturday.
end of public mail delivery 8 Replies
Alert! For the first time, since January 1, 2026, a country's public service, PostNord in Denmark, is discontinuing mail delivery. If other nations follow suit, it will spell the end of mail art sent through the public system.Continue
Started by nicolas de La Casinière in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Leslie Levenson on Friday.
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"Serbia is officially following 'global trends'—postage prices just went up! Still affordable, but hey, at least we’re staying trendy! 😁😁😁🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣❗"Continue
Started by Zorica Obradović in Mail-Art Discussions. Last reply by Zorica Obradović Jan 4.
My Offer : Lots of My Mail Art for You - REQUEST : Donation to IUOMA ! 5 Replies
Hello dear fellow IUOMA members,In short, I would like to monetarily support IUOMA but currently I cannot. So, I thought of this idea that I send you lots of my mail art, mostly made with my hand-carved stamps prints, and in return, you just donate…Continue
Started by Kiki in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Kiki Dec 25, 2025.
Tell me, who sent me two torn dollars?
Dear friends, please tell me, who exactly sent me two torn dollars in the mail? Someone used these two postcards to send me a very unusual art message with ruined dollars. Two $1 bills, torn in half, placed between postcards. The message arrived in…Continue
Started by Ilya Semenenko-Basin in Mail-Art Projects Dec 23, 2025.
The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, or My Ignorance and Ignorance?!? 3 Replies
The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, or My Ignorance and Ignorance?!?I drew a drawing on cardboard with this pencil. When I laminated, the drawing disappeared. An empty cardboard remained. On the second postcard, I just wrote the address with this pen,…Continue
Started by Zorica Obradović in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Oberdada Jr. Dec 15, 2025.
News from Moscow: Mail Art to The Garage Museum 1 Reply
In 2019, I wrote on the IUOMA portal:“If you want to get rid of excess postal art, you can donate your collection of postal art to the Museum of Moscow. With my participation in the Museum of Moscow, an archive of postal art for art historians and…Continue
Started by Ilya Semenenko-Basin in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Leslie Levenson Dec 9, 2025.
ADDRESS WRITTEN IN RED 30 Replies
are there any volunteers for the research?a few days ago they didn't want to receive my envelope at the post office.The reason was the ADDRESS WRITTEN IN RED.They say that any color can be used except red.Red is supposedly for controllers.If anyone…Continue
Started by Zorica Obradović in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Zorica Obradović Dec 1, 2025.
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