Just a friendly reminder from the American Postal Workers’ Union…  Absolutely zero tax payer dollars are used to support the USPS!  They deliver a ton of mail (several tons, actually) and it’s supported entirely by stamp and postage sales.  In case you’d like to do your part to help out the USPS– the 2011 stamps [...]

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Love this “postcard” that WBEZ put together about Detroit’s floating post office.  The ship, J.W. Westcott, is only 45 feet long but has its own zip code!  Since 1874 the service has delivered mail and other packages to the many large ships that come and go throughout the great lakes. Wikipedia explains that:

Any mail addressed [...]

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Loving this series from McSweeney’s, “Dispatches from Civil War Reenactments.”  I’m personally and professionally a sucker for all things Civil War, re-enacting related, or produced by the fine folks at McSweeney’s.  However, I’m especially a fan of these handwritten notes about the process and experience of participating in reenactments. I’m [...]

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One of my most favorite Etsy shops belongs to Wonderland Room.  When I need to stock up on washi tape, Japanese or Korean stationery, and other clever paper goods I always browse there.  Just look what I found this weekend– the Happy Postbox!  If only I knew enough Korean to know what the happy postbox [...]

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Trying to choose a poem for the 4th of July weekend, I realized just how much of my favorite poetry is about America either implicitly or explicitly.  Picking one for this weekend, I thought about re-posting one of those older ones.  But then, I came across this poem from Miller Williams and it just sums [...]

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