All Blog Posts Tagged 'usps' (4)

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When I send mail art, I never how the postal service will handle it. Sometimes the recipient gets it with a postmark across the image. I like when this happens, I feel it authenticates the piece as mail art.…

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Added by Tofu on February 1, 2024 at 6:05pm — No Comments

15th annual Anything Goes, Everything Goes accepting entries

This uncensored mail art show is in it's 15th year in Asheville, NC.

Anything Goes, Everything Shows, is just that...if it makes it through the postal system it will be exhibited in the Gallery. This year we ask that you include a call out to the postal system and/or it's carriers and clerks. Be creative, you can stamp objects and mail without a box! Help save the post office and have fun while you are at home with your family. Enter often! This year we will fill the…

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Added by Carlos Steward on May 11, 2020 at 4:43pm — 3 Comments

Question...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but (as the postage has already been paid by the addressee/original sender) one could technically repurpose pre-metered envelopes without additional postage for personal correspondence, aye?

Back in the 1990s, a couple of friends sent me letters in these envelopes, and no one went to prison.

Thank you for any and all…

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Added by David Alan Goldberg on March 3, 2016 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments

Investigative Mail-Art: Postal Worker Answers DK’s Hard Questions (edited by DeVillo Sloan)

On behalf of mail-artists everywhere, DK conducted an in-depth interview with a former postal worker who achieved a high career rank in the USA mail system. DK’s source, now retired, agreed to answer all the gloves-off questions on the grounds that her identity is kept anonymous. The result is an insider view of the postal system with a close look at issues that impact the mail-art community.

DK: Since you work for the post office, can I do a…

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Added by DKeys on November 20, 2014 at 8:34pm — 19 Comments

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