Here I am, Wallace & Gromified!
The US’ winter holiday stamps are fine and good– the pinecones are allright, I suppose, and I’m not personally a fan of the Mary stamps but that’s my own thing.  The UK’s holiday stamps, however, are amazing and so, so cute!  I think I’m going to order a sheet for [...]

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My copy of John Tingey’s The Englishman Who Posted Himself and Other Curious Objects finally arrived!  While I’m happy that the New Yorker’s book blog picked up on this mail art gem, it also meant the title was back-ordered for ages a few weeks.  Completely and utterly worth the wait.  I simply loved, loved, loved [...]

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Some great stamps have crossed my mailbox these last few weeks… The one above, celebrating public transit, is from Portugal.  I’ve actually gotten a few from Portugal…  They’re nice, especially the sea invertebrates.  Still, I like the art style in the stamp above best.

Technically, these stamps from Mexico aren’t really mine.  They arrived on an [...]

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Last weekend I saw a production of Theresa Rebeck’s Mauritius put on by VA’s First Stage theater.  The play, with a plot described by the New York Times simply as “three thugs and a stamp collection,” centers around a woman who comes into a rather valuable stamp collection, a collector who wants that stamp, and [...]

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“Mailsters on Parade” from the Smithsonian’s ‘People & the Post’ set on Flickr.

There were lots of things I was very excited about a week or so ago… I don’t want to leave you hanging, so let’s revisit shall we?

I haven’t been able to get my hands on a copy of The Englishman Who Posted Himself [...]

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I’ve been away these past few days, visiting family back in Texas.  So today, just a quick note to let you know that the Smithsonian NPM has made a selection of papers on postal history available online, for free!  The Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposia: Select Papers, 2006–2009 (PDF) can be downloaded from the [...]

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Yesterday’s “Book Bench,” a blog at the New Yorker, includes a gem of a book review for philatelists.  The Englishman Who Posted Himself and Other Curious Objects by John Tingey is available this month (Amazon says Sept. 22 but Powell’s doesn’t list a date).  Until I read this review I’d never even heard of W. [...]

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I would love to send each and every one of you gorgeous notes arranging rendezvous at various restaurants, coffee on Sunday morning, and sundry affectionate greetings.  Sadly, we no longer have twice daily mail delivery and, even if we did, I imagine that the iPhone and its ilk would still win out over Victoriana. (I [...]

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Meet Me at Mike’s window display.

Okay, I don’t want to brag (again) but… I kind of won a share of the super sweet stuff collected for the Meet Me at Mike’s Envelope Project.  I wanted to sit on this news until my box of goodies arrived (because bragging is more fun with pictures, you know) [...]

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What’s going on in the Playmobil Post Office?  Reports are coming in of all sorts of strange activity, what could be causing all the ruckus?  Is it a hold-up?

No…

Just a friendly reminder, folks, you can mail eggs, you can mail bees, but you cannot mail sharks.  Who is this clown who thought he was the [...]

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