Postal History Boutique

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Celebrate national postal history through mail art exchanges embracing stamps, postcards, envelopes, stickers, postboxes and whatever else anyone comes up with. Managed by Valentine Mark Herman.

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Leap Year : : 29 February 2016 19 Replies

It only happens twenty-five times in each century, that odd day on the calendar, 29 February. What a great opportunity to sneak in some postal history to your mail art this year.At the end of this…Continue

Started by Keith S. Chambers. Last reply by Heleen de Vaan Jun 22, 2016.

FIVE: Postal History Boutique Special July Mailing 123 Replies

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…Continue

Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) Jul 26, 2011.

Stop stealing the UK's postboxes (and making them into mailboxes, too)!! 2 Replies

From today's UK Daily Telegraph Postboxes stolen and sold on eBay for thousandsBritains world-famous red Victorian postboxes are being stolen by criminals who sell them abroad for thousands of pounds…Continue

Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by Valentine Mark Herman Jun 28, 2011.

A postal experiment 2 Replies

In the very early days of the postal system -- and going way back before postage stamps were introduced (in the UK in 1840 -- addresses were very simple, or even non -existent (and of course there…Continue

Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by John Tingey Jun 21, 2011.

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 14, 2013 at 5:10am: AUSTRALIA RELEASES FIRST 'VIDEO' STAMPS

This is not really Postal History, but it appeared in the UK 'Daily Telegraph' of 12/ix/2013, and I thought you might be interested in it:

"Australia's postal service has released a world-first 'video stamp' which allows people to send a 15-second video with their parcels. The new service allows senders to scan a coded stamp on their mail bag and record a message on their smartphone via an app, and then stick the stamp to their parcel. Recipients can view the message by scanning the message on their smartphone or tablet or by entering a code on the Australian Post website.

Australia Post said it had created 3 million of the stamps, which are fee and could be continued beyond Christmas. The stamps are available for viewing for 90 days after the package is received."

Roland Hill must be turning in his grave.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 25, 2013 at 1:44pm: US postage has a special stamp for this guy, too,

whose birthday is today, Sept. 25 :-)

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 13, 2013 at 7:20am

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 13, 2013 at 7:19am: US postage honored this guy, who has a birthday today :-) Sept 13:

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 3, 2013 at 9:09pm: Almost lost it...but "almost" doesn't count!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 3, 2013 at 9:08pm: The REAL Priceless Precious Penny Red is now safe :-)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on September 3, 2013 at 2:48pm: WHERE IS THE PENNY RED??

IT WAS IN THE LITTLE ENVELOPE!!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 3, 2013 at 1:46pm: Penny Red has arrived in Greece :-)

...on a very nice OLD, vintage, envelope:

Thank you, Val!!!

'Tis blogged:

Penny Red from Val.France :-)

Comment by David Stafford on August 25, 2013 at 10:41pm: He's the guy who wrote "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy." Something no one has ever forgiven him for.

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