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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Latest Activity: Mar 3

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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 Dean aka Artist in Seine on June 18, 2014 at 2:13pm: Thanks Val, but no thanks. Money like that would not make me a better person. I would just end up paying someone to make my Mail Art and write my blogs. Life would become cents less.

Sincerely,

Dean

PS: Yes, send all 12 to me!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 18, 2014 at 2:07pm: Thanks Angie. I don't see what the fuss is all about. I have a dozen or so of thee stamps in a box in the attic. Anyone interested? First come, first served....

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 23, 2014 at 3:36pm: None of us will be around to see global warmingor anything like that 'changing over time' -- unless we live for about 20,000, 000 years. I believe that the UK has just recovered from 'global flooding', and is enjoying (sic) an unusually warm spring, and waiting for a 'globally hot summer'.

It's all short-term nonsense, given that we've only been keeping weather records for 100-200 years, and the earth is millions, if not billions, years old.

I would like to inform you all that tomorrow, 24 March, 2014, will be the wettest/warmest/coldest/windiest (choose any you like) 24 March here in Sigean since 24 March 2013.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 23, 2014 at 1:53pm: FOREVER GLOBAL....and global warming...(or northern vortex, whatever.)

Hope to see this amazing stamp on mail art from USA :-) hint, hint!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 23, 2014 at 5:01am: A&S: is the 'Forever' crossed out, and, if so, why? Is there a not-so-secret environmental/doomsday message that the globe will not last for ever?

(If that is the case, y'all had better send me some Mail Art before the End of the World: thank you)

Comment by Alan Brignull on March 20, 2014 at 7:22am: It's Windy Miller from Camberwick Green!

http://postalheritage.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/camberwick-green-...

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 19, 2014 at 1:29pm: Postal History on postcards from Kim in Korea...

just for us kids :-)

all 6 cards are at this blog:

Lots of dots and dots washi from Kim in Korea

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on February 25, 2014 at 5:23pm: Or 'La Poste'...after all EDF etc are taking over the rest of the UK. Vive la Poste? Non!

Comment by Alan Brignull on February 25, 2014 at 5:07pm: Pillar boxes might never have CIIIR (or GVIIR) on, anyway. The privatised Royal Mail is allowed to call itself 'royal' for the rest of this reign but then, who knows? They might rename themselves … 'Britpost PLC' or something horrid.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on February 22, 2014 at 12:15pm: Thanks Alan -- we live & learn. Weren't some of the very old post boxes painted green at some time?

Prince Charles has sought my opinion on what name(s) he should choose as Sovereign. I suggested 'Ronadl McDonald', but he didn't seem too happy about that. Merrily yours, Mark I

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