FIVE: Postal History Boutique Special July Mailing

[Valentine Mark Herman]

Bonjour boys and girls!

 

Angie and Snooky told us yesterday that:

"This year July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens once every 823 years."

I propose that we celebrate it with a Postal History Boutique Special Mailing in July.

 

The theme is FIVE (or vijf, viisi, cinq, funf, cinque, fem, piec, cinco, etc)

 

There are 5 rules to this Mailing:

1. You must mail on Tuesday 5th July

2. On a pentagram shaped card (or on a pentagram superimposed on the front of an envelope)

3. Your piece must have a 5-theme (see below). You have to tell the Mailing List Co-ordinator (Guess who? Yes, me) what your 5-theme) is going to be

4. It must include at least one 5-cent (or local currency equivalent) postage stamp. [If a 5-cent stamp is unavailable, then a 15, 25, 35 etc stamp is acceptable, as long as it has a 5 in it.]

5. Er, I don't have a 5th rule yet...any ideas, gang?

 

Possible 5-themes are:

* Renault 5

* Chanel No 5

* 5 senses

* Take 5

* 5 wounds of Jesus

* 5 Olympic Circles

* The Famous Five

* 5 books of Moses

* High 5

* etc, including of course any other(s) that you care to choose.

 

Please let me know -- with your full mailing address, and the 5-theme you have chosen -- if you would like to participate in this once-in-a -823-year-occasion mailing* .

 

Regards, Val

 

* Regretfully, the Postal History Boutique cannot commit at this moment in time (ie now) to organise another mailing on this theme in 2834

 

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Wow, good going Lisa! You have already 6 of the "5" mailings!!

Me have only 4 so far, let's see what Monday's mail delivery will bring:-)

And, Lisa, that is your 5 Life Savers, yes? 

 

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Thanks, Jen, for the nice comment about the 5-Star rubber stamp ( on an eraser).

I use ALL sides of an eraser, this is the back side of the "CAT" mailing, me thinks.

And your 5 cent coin, it is a Euro cent, right? I'd have to see the reverse side, then I could

say which country it is from. With the coins, each European country can makes its own

design on the flip side. With the paper money, the Euro is the same for all. Can't wait to get my coin :-)

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Great blog, Angie! Thanks for posting all...and here are a few "5" facts about that Greek card ;-)

1.)The postcard had the 5 Olympic Circles but the center one was grey. This is because the OFFICIAL 5 circles cannot be used except on OFFICIAL Olympic materials. Soooo, I had to take a permanent marker and color in the black circle.

2.)Back side: 5 postage stamps: one real USA 5cents George Washington,

Other four are copies of 3 US Olympics stamps and one Greek Olympics stamp:

1960 US Winter Olympics - California

1984 Los Angeles swimmer

1996 Atlanta, Georgia (Golden Olympics' 100 Years, should have been in Athens ;-( but not)

2004 Athens, Greece (finally...our second modern Olympics!)

3.) "Greece" appears in FIVE languages along the top of the card!!!

4.) Then there is the rubber "5-star" stamp and on the envelope

(note that the border corner is cut to form a pentagon ;-)

5.) no 5cent Greek postage stamp available, but the two stamps on the envelope are : Seventy-FIVE cents ;-)

My High-5-for-July

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Well, not a regular "pentagon"...a FIVE-sided shape for the 5-Star rubber stamp ;-)

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Five in July Jen, Val, Katerina, Louise, Lisa, Dean, Angie

Check out Angie's blog...great collection of "FIVE"s!

Anyone hear from Steve? I am missing his, and also waiting for Jen's nickel ;-(

Patiently waiting....

 

 

[Jen Staggs]

That durn atlantic ocean, always getting in the way of my lumpy mailings...

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

What with the economic crisis in Greece, the cut in wages for postal workers..

it is quite possible that your 5cents ended up in some sorter's pocket???? ;-(

wha,wha...I want your 5cents worth!!

[Valentine Mark Herman]

I have been asked by the President of the European Commission to tell you that we can only afford to give 6 cents to Greece this time. Five cents are for Katerina. the other cent os for the rest of the Greek population. We advise y'all not to spend it all at once

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

0.01 EURO for 11,000,000 Greeks AND 18,000,000 tourists this summer?

Hmmmm, very generous of ya awl!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Anyone receive a "FIVE" from Steve? Hope he is able to send out before the end of High-5-July!

[Valentine Mark Herman]

I think he's OK. His computer was hacked into yesterday. Today I reminded him of his 5 obligations, and also the July deadline for 5.

Rumpy

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

YAY! Jen's 5 Cents came in the mail drop off by son at my seaside shack!  Thank you for the nice new shiny nickel! Is it worth it's weight in gold? Will I need to add it to my social Security payment that may not arrive for August? Well, I looove it! And the "I....GREECE

Thank you, Jen!