The postal service contributes to mail art

two cards I have received where the postal service has left its stamp:a card from jan with some machine art added.

and one sa mue with a sticker added and a (pretty short) number poem. actually I had to pay 1 EUR to get this card, asking for the reason I have been told the card was too small. however, when I used this card as template for one that I sent back to sa mue attaching the same amount of postage to it, she didn't have to pay extra. so it seems that in one of the sorting centres someone was very keen on contributing to mail art.

back side of the card:

I should add that sa mue refunded me very generously:

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Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 26, 2017 at 1:25pm: Love when the postal services add all their stickers!

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