Well, I got BUSTED by the Mail Art Police!

[Monster A GoGo]

Since my return to the Mail Art world, I've mailed off only 11 pieces. Of those, I know that three of them have reached their destination; one in South Dakota, one in Seattle, and one in England. Of the other eight, I have yet to hear.  I found the above notice in my mailbox today. Oops. BUSTED!

I don't know how they found me exactly. I have never put my return address on any of the pieces I have mailed off. I have "signed" the  back as "Monster A GoGo", but... I guess the Mail Art Police saw a couple pieces of Mail Art sent to me from others addressed to Monster A GoGo, saw the backs of my envelopes (I just sent two off late Monday night)---and put two and two together (Golly! They should work for the FBI!), and figured out I was a bad, bad boy---a  (GASP!) mail criminal! Will I be sent to postal prison? O' the HORROR!!

Of those eight pieces still unaccounted for, I at least have a photographic record of them. Six of them (along with the three that did make it through) can be seen in the blog post here: https://monsterago-go.blogspot.com/2022/03/return-to-sender-mail-ar...

 The other two are attached below. 

I'm guessing it is these last two that are being held. I wonder if any of the others that have not reached their destinations are also being "detained".

The truly bummer-ific part is that I am currently working on three other pieces. Do I stop? Continue? I know I like to go beyond the confines of the envelope's borders. Hmm. How can I work around this... Hmm?

Stay tuned and see what happens tomorrow when I go and speak to "Josh". Whose stamp do I gotta lick to get them off of my back? Jeepers!

CHEERS!

PART 2, when I go to the Post Office, is HERE: https://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/busted-by-the-mail-ar...

[Carien van Hest]

Funny story :)

[John Gayer]

I know what you mean. Living in Finland, I have occasionally resorted to providing a literal English translation of the street address on outgoing items—instead of using Finnish or Swedish (it's an officially bilingual country). And mail using the version of the address (Heavenly Goat Road) has made it to me several times.