Valentine Mark Herman's Blog – March 2023 Archive (3)

Extract from today's Sunday Times: Antarctica’s 23-year-old postmaster on sorting mail at the end of the Earth

Clare Ballantyne grew up in Louth, Lincolnshire, and graduated from Oxford University with a master’s degree in Earth sciences in 2022. In June she and three others were selected from 4,000 applicants to travel to Port Lockroy on the remote Goudier Island in the Antarctic Peninsula. The UK’s most southerly public post office — known affectionately as the Penguin Post Office — is operated by the charity UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT). Ballantyne’s job…

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Added by Valentine Mark Herman on March 26, 2023 at 10:30am — 5 Comments

The format of the new site is HORRIBLE!

Please reset it in it's old and luch loved format.

Thank you.

Val

Added by Valentine Mark Herman on March 3, 2023 at 8:30am — 12 Comments

BEWARE 2 -- ANOTHER MAIL ART SPAMMER?!

"Dear (fill in name of person, organisation, association, local/regional/state/national government, etc),

I am writing to you because I know that you share my interests in Mail Art (fill in other actiivity, social cause, sport, cultural event, current affairs, etc), and I wonder if you would like to exchange some Mail Art with me?…

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Added by Valentine Mark Herman on March 1, 2023 at 4:28pm — 2 Comments

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