Sometimes, postcards take a very long time to reach me down here in Thailand. These aren’t considered Priority Mail items by most (if any) postal administrations around the world. Some do better than others. Over the years, I have had a few cards take longer than 100 days to travel from the place of posting…
In preparing for today’s article on A Stamp A Day, I realized that I had a St. Patrick’s Day-themed postcard with a nice handstamp and green rubber-stamped cachet obtained way back when I lived in northeastern Kansas. While Kansas certainly had a few ethnic areas (German and Spanish spring immediately to mind), neighboring Missouri seemed…
I have been very negligent with this postcard blog as of late but I hope to change that in the coming weeks. As of Monday, I am (finally!) on as much of a holiday as I can muster. This means that I must still go to the office each day but I won’t have many…
A couple of days ago, I received my first Postcrossing card for the year 2019. In fact, it is the first I’ve received since May 3, 2017 (that card took 59 days to journey from the Longview, Texas to Phuket). Today’s card was quite a bit faster; it was mailed from Breda in the Netherlands…
February 19 is the birth anniversary of Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer Nicoalus Copernicus. I wrote an article summarizing his life earlier this afternoon for my A Stamp A Day blog and then remembered I had one Copernicus-related postcard. The card pictures Copernicus’s heliocentric diagram of the Solar System presented in a work published shortly before…
As a teacher who is also a philatelist, I have a fair number of stamps that show the theme of “education”. I particularly like those that show teachers and/or students. Unfortunately, I do not have many postcards that show the same topic. In fact, this one from Turkey may be the only one in my…
I started this postcards only blog in early December 2014. In that time, I have posted 31 articles about postcards from Thailand. Yet, I still have quite a few Thai cards I haven’t yet written about. Some, like the one pictured above, are my own designs. I had a number of these printed by MOO…
Like a Phoenix rising out of the flames, erm…. like a pigeon rising from the street, I am am finally sending my first Postcrossing cards since September 25, 2017. I never received a single card from that last (big) batch of cards I sent out and I lost interest for a while; I did a…
Celebrating and bollocking stamp design and collector culture while swearing a bit
Sharing cards I have received through Postcrossing, Swaps, Friends & Family
Sharing cards I have received through Postcrossing, Swaps, Friends & Family
Sharing cards I have received through Postcrossing, Swaps, Friends & Family
Sharing cards I have received through Postcrossing, Swaps, Friends & Family
by Mark Joseph Jochim
