Postal History Boutique

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Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 18, 2011 at 2:52pm

And Postage stamps that today tell another "story" and "history":

4 mail art pieces arrived in Greece today, Friday, March 18, 2011. Always with mail art comes an array of postage stampin and stampings. They tell a story, even before we open to see the art that is contained inside. Here is, at the top, from Hamburg, Germany: a QR Code...quick response code, no longer any need for perforated stamps. Then there is our ferless leader, Val, in France, sending a great collage of kitty-cat US stamps (more of the horde I've sent him).

Always beautiful and exotic are the stamps that Cheryl sends from South Africa! And then there was this heart-stopper....from Marie  in Japan. she had sent out her "Circles of your mind" mail art book on the day of the earthquake. It is postmarked 11.III.11 ...March 11, 2011, last Friday.

May she be safe and well, and our thoughts go to all in Japan. May Spring and butterflies and flowers, and children playing with grandmother ...all return soon!

Comment by Louise Kiner on March 16, 2011 at 2:21pm

That's really very funny. Great!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 16, 2011 at 2:06pm

Stamps with a Story! Val has made a great "Menu" from the mass amount of old US postage stamps I have been sending him. This is amazing...and yummy!

Dinner for Two at 8:00 pm, table 4, and the Menu cover:

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 14, 2011 at 8:36pm

Postal History...and Postage with a Story! from Japan:

Japanese postage stamps on two mail art pieces that arrived today in Greece. They were mailed with such joy, with such cheer...a moment in time BEFORE the destruction of the earthquake and the tsunami, before  fears and saddness. One cancellation reads 7 III 11, March 7, 2011, from Tokyo, and the other reads on the lower left: 8 III...., March 8, 2011. I shall treasure this mail art and the stamps that brought them to me before disaster. May the senders be safe and well.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 9, 2011 at 3:35pm

Had to post this mail art from leader Val Mark Herman. I just loooove when he adds all the rainbow colored stamps of the Queen! Thank you, Val and cheers, Princess Kate

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 21, 2011 at 12:07pm

Postal History: set of four flowers, US postage, 18 cents, issued April 23, 1981. 1. Rose, 2.Camelia, 3.Dahlia, 4. Lily. Flowers...lots of flowers, on a grey rainy day in Greece! Thank you, Val! You do good with all those old stamps...now, what can you do for the hundreds of "windmills"-on-your-mind? coming soon ;-)

Comment by David Stafford on February 18, 2011 at 9:48pm

Apparently Univac and Watson have been exchanging mail art but it's pretty dull. Mostly ones and zeros. For myself I await the Great Power Outage and the return of the Pony Express and Correo de Brenda.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on February 18, 2011 at 8:38pm

Mail people -- ie La Poste employees -- are a protected species here in France. They will never loose their jobs, although their civil service (and heavily unionised) positions may be redefined in various ways.

'Soon there will no longer be a need for letters, postcards and parcels' Haven't I heard that before somewhere?

It reminds me of the rubbish that the computer company came up with at the start of the internet. 'We'll soon have a paperless office and a paperless society'; And what happened, Well in that particular company paper consumption went up by at least 600%!

I'm all for protecting Post people. And white rhinos; And pandas. And honey bees. etc.

Bon weekend, mes amis!

Val

Comment by DKeys on February 18, 2011 at 6:50pm

I know! Robot with an attitude maybe? I've definately sent stranger things that arrived just fine through the mail. I hate to put it in an envelope. I might just try to resend it -darken the writing-and hope for the best

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 18, 2011 at 5:53pm

Strange, Diane...maybe the "machine" did not read "20015"??? But it is true, your "Love" tag arrived in Greece...and with a mistaken zip code even! It had 5249, whereas my code is 54249! Who knows what lurks in the US Post Office after dark :-0

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