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From David Stone: Book of Poetry

Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 17, 2026 at 11:00am 3 Comments

Often David sends his VisPo poems on A4 sheets but now arrived a published edition: L'Flaneur.

I have another…

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From Santa Clara, California

Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 17, 2026 at 8:21am 0 Comments

The Artist in California, sent wonderful tags and stuff, also a stitched and printed mail art card.

Beautiful "vintage" envelope, too. Thank you so much, Penelope!

From the USA: West Coast, East Coast, and in the Middle

Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 17, 2026 at 8:20am 0 Comments

From my ol' home town, Chicago, comes an "altered" postcard from Olivia Arrow, splish-splash at Buckingham Fountain!

And from the West Coast, TOFU sent stampings and stickers.

From the East…

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draw nothing machine - vote now

Posted by Juan Petry on September 16, 2026 at 11:05pm 0 Comments

Last year i published there about a new social mail art project based on the app "the draw - nothing - machine". i invited all of you to create your own images based on the question how to draw the nothing in an image. i promised to select the best 120 items for a series of mail art cards and now we have already more than 1000 (!) created images to…

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Thank you Kiki!

Posted by Treah Pichette on September 16, 2026 at 4:56pm 0 Comments

I received your pretty card in celebration of World Postcard Day. Something will be returning to you soon!

The Rubber Postcard 102

Posted by William M on September 16, 2026 at 8:44am 0 Comments

Thanks to everyone who sent work!…



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The time war has come for me

Posted by J Wyrdfae on September 16, 2026 at 5:36am 1 Comment

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Thank you  Matthew Carey

Received from William Mellott - Taiwan #RubberPostcard

Posted by Paulo Alexandre Rocha Teles on September 15, 2026 at 5:43pm 1 Comment

It's an honor to participate in the 100 issue...
love all the faces...
Best wishes...
Now I have a dilemma: keep the issue in mailart box...
or use the cover in my train collection around the world...

Received from David Stanley - Usa #Subreal Alchemy

Posted by Paulo Alexandre Rocha Teles on September 15, 2026 at 5:40pm 0 Comments

Thanks very much for this great work...
made my day...
love it

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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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Drawing score: anyone feel like trying it?

After looking at Sol LeWitt’s instruction-based drawings, I tried writing a small drawing score of my own.I would like to see what happens when the instructions travel without an accompanying image. If anyone feels like trying one interpretation,…Continue

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Documentation of sent Mail Art 14 Replies

Since the beginning of my involvement in Mail Art that I keep a digital archive of sent material.Do you document in any way the Mail Art you send to others? Or do you just let it go its way and forget about it?Continue

Started by Eduardo Cardoso in Mail-Art Discussions. Last reply by Carmela R on Monday.

Page Trade/Exchange? 3 Replies

I often have several scribble/sketchbooks going at once, and I rarely finish them.Some pages contain work I consider unsuccessful or difficult to look at—usually because I was experimenting, learning, or simply having an off day. But those pages…Continue

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Started by Josofa in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Denice Newton Sep 10.

NETWORK PROJECT: Co-Conspirators Wanted to Spread Anti-Machine Zines 16 Replies

Calling all mail artists!,I have printed an underground zine fighting back against the corporate "efficiency trap," data-mining, and the trillion-dollar attention economy. It is a call to become illiterate to the algorithm and fluent in each other.I…Continue

Started by Matthew (mm2001) in Mail-Art Magazines and Publications. Last reply by Jes Bidlack Sep 8.

Best adhesive for collage 86 Replies

A friend asks: What's the best adhesive for magazine collage that won't wrinkle the paper? I told him Spray Mount...anybody have any other suggestions?Continue

Started by David Stafford in Technical Details in Mail-Art. Last reply by Connor Engelsman Sep 7.

Worldwide diminishing postal service 18 Replies

Please complete the situation regarding the postal services in your country.Sad news: starting next month, mail will only be delivered three times a week in The Netherlands. Reason: cutbacks. Stamps are becoming more expensive.Continue

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Dear IUOMA people, today, I am wondering..... 32 Replies

Dear IUOMA people,Today, I wonder, if you are a discriminative type of person or a type of person who suspect /has doubts more or less on certain other IUOMA members ?I happen to be Asian myself and so I am sensitive on these issues more or less.For…Continue

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ADDRESS WRITTEN IN RED 32 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

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Started by Rebecca T. in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Devin S. Turk Aug 3.

Mail art blogs and twitter accounts 57 Replies

Many of us keep blogs and have twitter accounts, and I know that many of us post up our best work there. Personally I love seeing people's work on their blogs, and I follow the latest work of many mailartists on Twitter too, where the banter is…Continue

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