Incoming

I had some more lovely incoming mail today, all postcards. (I'm kind of longing for a lovely long letter to read)

A Postcrossing card from Taiwan


A Private swap from, yep, you guessed it, Indonesia


And another private swap from Japan

I really enjoy looking at the stamps on mail from other nations. I've had some particularly nice ones from Asia and North America recently. I normally feel that our stamps here in the UK tend to be a bit boring, at least on my mail, because I always get given the Queen's head and the price.

I have a thoery as to why... I went to the post office at my usual time, but there had been a) less customers or b) a recent delivery of pretty stamps. As the lady was serving me I noticed that in her book she had a sheet of pretty stamps on top of the sheets of 'normal' stamps. I guess they have a certain number of pretty stamps in their books at the start of each day and just work through them or something? I'm going to test my theory by going to the post office super early next time I need to buy stamps :D

Basically, I'm happy that my post got pretty stamps finaly. Even the 1st class stamps had pictures of dogs on them and the 81p stamps had Queen Mary on them, although I didn't look close enough to see which Mary she was. Mary Tudor I guess. And I think I may have to do a post featuring my favourite stamps from around the world, maybe tomorrow? :D

Incoming

The combination of not posting anything while the planes weren't running and being away from home last weekend has really thrown me out of synch. I haven't posted about any incoming mail for a while and I'm totally behind with letter writing. First things first... incoming :)

Friday's Post - I was lucky enough to get two letters in one day! :D

A lovely letter fron Ashley in Maine, I love the little flowers she stuck on the envie :)


A letter from Sam for an intro letter swap, the stamps are really pretty.

Saturday's Post (I had loads of it!)

A really fun Postcrossing card from the States


A beautiful and informative Postcrossing card from Poland


A Quartered postie for a swap (I got this one because of the reptile/dragon - YAY!)


Swapbot name Postie


10 things to be happy about swap with a really cool envie and writing


A really cool postie for the Nude postie swap

Tuesday's Post (FIVE postcards :D )

A postcrossing card from China with awesome stamp usage... see below too




A non-touristy postie for a swap. This character kinda creeps me out... but I like that weird factor :)


A Quartered postcard for a swap


Another quartered postie


And the only quartered postie that didn't make it here complete. The other 3 recipients got theirs ok and I'm really sad because she cut the cards diagonally which would have been really cool. The base postie is pretty strange and interesting though. It's such a shame it didn't reach me here in one piece... I think the royal mail employees picked it to pieces :''(

Today's Post

An awesome postie from Taiwan (Private Swap)


Complete with really cool stamp :D


A Random Envie for a swap complete with several 1p stamps, heh


The stationery inside the envie


Part 2 of stationery inside random envie

And that is the huge amount of incoming I received in the past week!! To be honest, I think I've missed some... I'll have to double check. I need to come up with a filing system for incoming post. I may just have to buy some more storage boxes, heheh

Outgoing pt 1

Yesterday was a huge post day, now that flights are running again, I had a million (ok, well,17) things to mail including 5 packages. It cost a small fortune but is well worth it. I hope the recipients love their mail :)

I had a lot of fun picking out bits for these packages. It also made me realise how much stationery I actually have. It's a little insane.

Outgoing Postcards


Postcrossing to the US


Postcrossing to Belarus


Private swap to Taiwan


Postcrossing to the Netherlands


Private swap to Japan


A card to a mail lover in the US


Quotecard postie to the US


Another quotecard postie for swap bot


The final quotecard postie


Non touristy postcard swap


Non touristy swap

and the final non touristy swap postcard I realise now that I don't have a picture of it and it may actually still be in my bedroom... OOPS!!! I'm going to have to run upstairs and triple check it's been sent. EDIT: it's definitely been sent as there is no sign of it anywhere at home, it's a shame I didn't get a picture though :(

Stay tuned for the rest of the mail :)