Postal History Boutique

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Comment by Louise Kiner on December 17, 2011 at 9:31pm

Nice collection!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 17, 2011 at 9:23pm

'Tis the Season:

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 21, 2011 at 4:28pm

Going Bananas, thanks to Angie and Diane...I can start a SECOND Anna Banana card! Whahoooo!

This first card was missing only one, so I added a special Chiquita from Mexico, and completed the first line in "blue" ;-) Now , thanks to Angie, I can work on card #2! 

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 11, 2011 at 1:46pm

Be on the look out for envelope and mail art with rare stamp: 11.11.11

(and i am hoping a Greek postal cancellation stamp too?)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 11, 2011 at 5:36am

Hi Katerina! Postal historians pay an awful lot of money for some envelopes (especially late 19th/early 20th ones) that have been sent all around the world and have picked up a weird and wonderful collection of postmarks.

Regards, val

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 10, 2011 at 9:31pm

Once one of my cousins in Chicago sent me a Christmas card and placed the postal code: 54249 AFTER the "Greece"...it traveled all the way to the Fiji Islands, stamped there and on to New Zealand, rubber stamped there as well, and finally arrived at Easter in Greece!

In another more recent case, Cheryl of S.A. addressed her mail art to me as MomKat, and the postgal tossed it on the stairs, probably waiting for the neighborhood stray cat to pick it up?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 10, 2011 at 5:33am

Jen...I can find you somewhere to live here if you like, and guarantee that you will be the one and only 'Jen Staggs, formerly of Dallas, Texas' in the village -- unless the other 6 follow you! Regards, Val

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 10, 2011 at 5:31am

I have some UK letters from the end of the 18th/start of the 19th century in the pre-postage stamp era.They have 'minimalist' addresses such as:

'Dr. Bloggs, Carlisle'

'Mr Smith, Solicitor, Manchester'

'Mr Jones, Writer, Fulham'

And they all got delivered somehow;

Regards, Val

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on November 9, 2011 at 11:24pm

Once a letter was addressed to me by name and a p.o. box using my address numbers but not the street, and my postal code. One of the postal clerk's had a daughter in school with our children, so she knew who we were and sent the mail on to me. That was a surprise.

Comment by Jen Staggs on November 9, 2011 at 8:59pm

Sounds like the UK code is much more clever than the vague US codes.  I would love to just use a last name and a code as an address!  Sadly, with such a huge population, I would probably get mail from the other seven Jen Staggses in Dallas.  Must move to a tiny village in France.  Darn.

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