We love those postal additions!

The collage mail art inside has been created by Dean / Artist in Seine.

Apparently the French Post thought it a delicate art object, and they have built a protective plastic cover around it.

Dean's mail art I'll post in the Vinyl Art group right now. The postal addition of course you can see in the picture above.

Thank you Dean, thank you La Poste France!

The Artist In Seine seems to not want to use a French envelope :-)

So La Poste does!

This was mail art from Dean that arrived with a "postal addition"...

the "pills" had begun to unglue!

It is a fun mail art piece:

Thank you for posting, Katerina!

It suddenly reminds me of the Greek post, and what they had added to just my plastic box and onion/tree I had sent to you! You blogged about it here :-)

Yes, the Greek Post : ΕΛΤΑ

added a  plastic around your wood!

And a lot of objects I didn't send to you :-) as I only had send the wooden onion and a small letter to Greece :-) .

That's right, Heleen! I forgot that there were other items tossed in that plastic bag...and someone else never received the lotions or the gingerbread! 

LaPoste also added a French envelope for mail art from

Valentine Mark Herman:

It protected some delicate little items from that BRASSERIE in Sigean!

And the US mail added to an other interesting mail obejct, sent by Artis in Seine to America!

I read about it on Lynn's blog post.

At first, I read "We love those postal addictions!" :D

I have discovered some of these in the past, and always made me smile. Well, not really when they say I didn't add the right postage, or they hide a nice stamp, or when that means the envelope is damaged...

Lately I found this stamps in a letter from Suus. I think it is about customs, but it's too blurry...

I don't know if everyone would call it an addition (and alas I have no photo of the arrived mail, on which the Post had added the number '11'). But I would do so: this envelope I addressed to Herman in Sigean, France (nothing  more, nothing less: not his other names nor the Old Fountain Street-address), and the Post added an extra way! 

This is what the receiver, (Valentine Mark) Herman wrote to me, about the extra trip added to the journey of this envelope: 

" ..the minimally addressed orange envelope -- "Herman, mail artist, Sigean, France" -- GOT HERE!
(...)
It got diverted to the wrong Département (66 Pyrenees Oriental -- which is the one further South) -- before it arrived in Sigean with an '11' written by a post person on the envelope (11 is my Département, l'Aude)."

Val added "Fortunately, there's only one Sigean in France.", but it might have been nice to know what would happen when there would exist an other Sigean and to know what the Post people would do then.

Thank you very much, Val, for letting me know about the envelope's journey, and again thank you French Post, for your efforts and succeeding in delivering an interesting content despite of a minimal addressed envelope!

.. and Valentine was so kind to send me a picture of the arrived envelope. As you can see, not only the postmark has been added, but also the number 11.
And even - before another postperson wrote this correct number - a postperon has written the (incorrect) number 66, of the Départment '66 Pyrenees Oriental', which is more south.

Again thank you, Val, and all postpersons who have done their utmost to find the receiver.

Not only Val and the French Post were so kind, also Edward Meyer, from Ripley Entertainment, was so kind to send me pictures of the arrived mail. 

About August 24th I posted these three tiny objects:

Alas they arrived too late for the 'strange mail' contest, but at least two of them, the bird and the birdhouse, did arrive safe and sound. 

They even traveled for free: neither the Dutch nor the US post had added a cancellation stamp to the postage stamps. So if ever Edward or someone else from Ripley will spend holidays in the Netherlands, they can take these stamps with them, they can be re-used for mail up to 20 grams :-)

The reason to show this mail here, is the addition by the American post, the USPS / United States Postal Service, or to be precise: by all employees at Irving Park Road Processing & Distribution Center:

Instead of getting angry and pounding on the postal objects because the size of the mail didn't comply with the rules, the Postpersons were very polite and they even protected it by a plastic cover. And delivered it, be it a little late, but they did. 

Thank you, PostNL and USPS, for bringing these objects to the right place, and thank you Edward, for these photos!

well, this is new. They send me a card to say they threw in a piece of mail that isn't for them and if I would like it to pass it on.....