Mail Art UK

Hi Everyone, a really great group. I am fairly new here, if anyone would like a new correspondent please do let me know. I am adding photos slowly of work I have made and sent out. Check out my instagram @Amanda_Lynch_art as I use this everyday I will see messages. keep well everyone 

Had a quick look at your excellent website Amanda.  Intriguing sculptures and 3-D  work.  Thanks for joining in the fun!

Thanks Jennifer it's always nice to hear someone likes your work. I have tried the link but unfortunately it is saying page not found. I have tried to find it online but havent had any luck.

Hi Jennifer, Ah yes that worked. How do people submit works its a great project. 

Field Study
P.O.Box 1838 Geelong
VIC 3220
Australia

This is DDellafiora's address Amanda. You submit 40 pages of toilet paper with the same artwork on each. I found that rubberstamping is the easiest thing to do. I have no idea how Jennifer got such a beautiful and complicated picture to work so well.

Hi Martha, many thanks for this and the advice. I will have a think and send something over. 

Thanks Jennifer, This is great. I will be taking part once I get the time to commit to it, it does look great.  

Open Call  dedicated to GENDER DIFFERENCE

The gallery VISIONI ALTRE in Venice  in collaboration with the collettive AE in Rome, invites artists to reflect on the theme contestualizing it in their socio-geographical framework.
The topics are: WOMAN’S RIGHTS AND THE LGBTQ+ COMUNUITY

This call is in collaboration also with Guenda Mai a grad student at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. All the works recived by the artist will rapresent an important sourse for her  thesis paper.

ARTISTS CAN SEND MORE THEIR  ARTWORKS TO:

galleria VISIONI ALTRE
Campo del Ghetto Novo, Cannaregio 2918, 30121, Venezia (VE)

DEADLINE: 15 dicembre 2020- PLEASE SHARE

It’s possible to send, signed and completed with technique and title:
Collages, Photografs, Postcards, Objects and Art’s book and so on without any limitation on the use of techniques and medium, but all the works must be in small or medium size.

All the material will be exhibited at the Visioni Altre gallery in Venice from 15 to 30 January 2021, and then will be kept in the archive of Visioni Altre for future events.

Documentation to all. No jury, No fees, No return.
For more information
Email: guenda.mai95@gmail.com or whatsapp: +39 3347275646

Does everybody know that PO prices have changed since January 1st? I did not, the PO could have found a way to make it public. I nearly sent my next batch with less postage than the necessary.

Yes, a bit of a shock.  Luckliy I found out last December so bought a big stack of 2nd class  stamps along with my Xmas stamps.  The PO is sneaky like that!  I might be using carrier pigeon from now on!

Second class stamps are surely OK? I bought lots of them years ago

Non-denominational 2nd class and 1st class stamps are always valid, Martha, whatever price you paid for them. 2nd class costs 66p now. 1st class, 85p. But if you bought them when they were cheaper and they have not been used, you can use them.

US postal rates are set to change on the 26th of January 2021.  (They are not already in place.)  Here is a summary:

I forgot to add, sorry about your privatized postal rates going up every year.  As you can see from the table I posted, our rates do not go up as often and are lower overall.  The future, I cannot predict.

Yes you are lucky over there Bradford.

Thanks Mel Anie. I made a good investment all those years ago but I do not put it pass the PO to cancel them somehow. I shall check prices regularly now, it would have been dreadful if Alan Brignull had not told me.

Welcome Lee. 

Welcome Kimberley.

Martha - sticking stamps on anvils is tricky!

Working fine for me . Is it IUOMA or other sites?

Hope you get it sorted soon Martha.  Annoying  to have that "insecure" thing happening again!

Thanks for the info -

UK mail art projects can be added here too =

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/29jRcg5Fpt8T797gMm0QqnG/t...

https://www.facebook.com/artistasplasticospr/?ref=pages_you_manage

Guess who I did/n't bump into today? 

Sorry about this Mel.   Not sure when or where but not getting out much over the last year or so ( I wonder why?)  .  Maybe bump into you in the mail?

A new project for a new year!  Get sending!

Shed? Shed?  I got rid of my shed years ago.  Now I'm trying to get red of my S%@T.  I do have a deck with a few garden tools hidden somewhere - will see what I can find! :)  Happy New Year!

Jas

Thanks James -  new flyer with updates.  If you cant find any tools to draw round - made up ones will do!

Important news from the Post Office, UK.

(I got this in an email, presumably because I buy my stamps online.)

Stamps are changing
We’re adding unique barcodes to our Definitive stamps.
Definitive stamps are the iconic everyday stamps that feature the profile of HM The Queen. The new barcode feature promises to expand the number of Royal Mail services available to you.
With this change, there are two options available for your existing non-barcoded stamps.
Use them
Non-barcoded stamps – excluding Special Stamps – will remain usable until 31 January 2023, when they will be phased out.
Swapping them out
Alternatively, your non-barcoded Definitive stamps can be exchanged for the new barcoded version through the Swap Out scheme.
There isn’t an immediate rush to swap out your unused stamps but we would encourage you to use your non-barcoded stamps before 31 January 2023.
Special Stamps and Christmas Stamps without a barcode will continue to be valid and don’t need to be used up or swapped out. Special Stamps are stamps that have an image other than the profile of HM The Queen.
Forms to swap your stamps are now available via local Customer Service Points, the Royal Mail website and via our Customer Experience team.
For further details, or to download a Swap Out form, visit our website.
https://www.royalmail.com/sending/barcoded-stamps

Thanks Martha.  Yes, this is annoying or some it seems but I guess we must change with the times!   Barcodes are ugly but like electricity pylons you kind of get used to them and eventually they have a kind of beauty all of their own!  ( really?)  yes, looked at under a microscope they emit a certain frission of energectic yet unmistakable dreamlike geometry.  Squinticential in all it's pretentious drivel like artistic benevolence.  I think you know what I mean.  Here. have a good squint- you see it don't you?  I'll get me coat.

Me not a Brit, but a friend-of-the-Crown :-)

Reading the comments about UK postage going barcode ?

(someone enlighten the Artist in Seine!)

Does that mean I won't see the handsome Prince

or Her Majesty on mail art envelopes next year?

:-( Please send lots of mail art with fun UK postage until then...

I do not know what they intend to do, but guess it is away of getting more money from us. The rats! (sorry Vermina)

And just now I got another email. International postage prices have changed! I have not read it, it is nearly lunch time, but I can assure you it is not a reduccion. Grrrrr!

"The cost of first class stamps will increase by 10p from their current price, from 85p to 95p each. Meanwhile the price of second class stamps will increase to 68p, up 2p from 66p."  That was very sneaky - didnt have time to stock up!  Even the local post office lady wasn't aware of any price rises when I quizzed her a couple of months ago!  Grrrrrr!

Yes Michael, so sneaky, but I can still use mine. I have quite a lot of second class stamps that can be used until January 2023. It is the international stamps that cannot be used from today, I need to add postage to get to £1.85 (15p up!) Rats,rats,rats! The bother! I have to get to the post office, now at the back of a long, poorly ventilated Covid filled shop! We had a large Post Office but it was sold. Grrrr! Arghfffff... Spit, spat!

But Michael, who sees beauty in pylons, didn't you hear there's a new design of pylon out too?

Regarding the new postal rates, I think it's a pity the international rates are no longer exactly 2x and 3x the First Class rate; that was convenient and almost clever. Which 'international stamps' do you mean that can't be used from today, Martha? Pictorial commemoratives continue to be valid indefinitely, so I reckon that pic of Prince Whosit is still OK.

BREAKING NEWS

This is the new definitive with the barcode on the side. When scanned it shows an animation of Shaun the Sheep to the lucky recipient of the stamp!

Fancy that, what an improvement!

Alan, I refer to the international stamps of £1.70 that I have bought in bulk. They cannot be used from today unless 15 p is added to make £1.85, the new price. Which means I have to go to the local PO, which as described in my previous post, intails running the gauntlet along a crowd of covid infested humans, 1 in 16 infectious to be precise. It is to avoid this that I buy them on line. And such is the trust the PO has in its own deliveries that they are sent by courier!

I do not imagine that they thought of having a 15p stamp issued.

Oh I see, they can still be used, they're just not sufficient.

A video of Shaun the Sheep — a valuable addition to our modern lifestyle, Gromit!

Martha - just use three 5p  stamps - you can buy these online .