"Postcard finally arrives 121 years after it was sent

"A postbox has been closed because snails have been crawling inside and munching the mail.

"The ornate letter sheet was stamped with a Penny Black, the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, over 180 years ago

The earliest surviving piece of mail using a pre-paid postage stamp that was sent to a Cumbrian iron works is to be sold in New York.

The piece of postal history is a Mulready letter sheet that was stamped with a Penny Black, the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, on May 2 1840. It was sent from London to the…

Overview Mail-Art Projects

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67409534

'Determined' snails eating villagers' mail

First class stamp price jumps to £1.25

Bonjour,

Some of you will, unfortunately, remember Moan Lisa who has been thrown out of IUOMA on more than one occasion. Others of you will, fortunately, not know about him.

I woud like to draw your attention to his current madness.

I have received two postcards from him (with an address in Kyrgystan (which is somehere in Central Asia, but the stamps are from Belgum).

The first has on the front this 'message': "one two three four I DECLARE A MAIL ART…

At the start of 2024, the price of an international postage in France will increase to €1.96 -- or $2. 16.

I used to be able to afford to send lots of mail abroad when stamps cost 50% less, but now my mail art sendings have to be severely curtailed -- for which I apologise in advance.

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…

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

Thank you.

Val

Beware folks!

I was recently contacted by Catherine O'Sullivan who I had never heard of.

'I have seen your Mail Art, and would like to share some thoughts about Mail Art with you', she said.

'OK', 'I replied, 'What do you want to talk about?'

Then I got a follow-up saying she lived in the US (Denver, CO, I think) had been a nurse, was a religous person, was seriously ill, etc, and as I was a 'sensitive' person she would like to transfer some of her funds to me…

How late has your post been recently? A few days? Weeks? Maybe a month? Strike action may be causing significant delays at present, but they are nothing compared to the time taken for one letter to make it from Bath to Crystal Palace which has finally arrived 105 years after it was posted.

It was originally sent by a Christabel Mennell, who seemed to be racked by guilt and wished to…

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...it has the same address as the former web-site, but is about 90% shorter, and, hopefully, 90% more accessible and informative.

Mail Art and, of course, IOMA are included in it. Look at:

i) the entry and text for 'Mail Art' on the Home Page; ('I make all sorts of art'. 'I produce all kinds of art', etc)

ii) the entry for 'Mail Art' at the extreme right of the top of the Home Page, click on it, and you will find some examples of my Mail Art over the…

Look at the figures below. There used to be lots of Mail Art Exhibitions/Projects -- anywhere between 120 and 230 each year, from 2007 to 2017.

Since Covid there are far, far fewer. And in 2022, as in 2021, there is likely to be less than 20. (That's 20 organised by the supposed 5,600+ IUOMA members plus other non-IUOMA Mail Aritists, as featured here)

Any ideas why this should be so?

Is Mail Art dying? Are Mail Art Exhibitions/Porjects becoming less relevant,…

..I, for one, don't think they should be allowed on medical, let alone "I'm a Mail Artist, look at me", grounds.

Sorry to be a spoil sport

Val

From today's Times (of London):

First Penny Black stamp offered for £6m at Sotheby’s auction

The Penny Black has acquired such legendary status among…