Post by Mia on May 16, 2018 0:04:29 GMT
Hopefully Spring has well and truly sprung for those in the northern hemisphere. Hope the weather is kind to you all, especially when there are letters to be posted!
Nothing much really to report, due to unforeseen family circumstances, but I do hope I will be able to do a few new things this year. I had hoped to do more videos on snail mail, but for the moment, these have been put on hold.
Ongoing - I am still, still looking for the bigger charities around the world accepting stamps as donations (and then they can sell on to dealers and the philatelic world). The UK has many charities doing this - they may research into cancer or other illnesses, provide nurses, hospices, fund equipment at hospitals, support services, humanitarian causes..... but I would like to find equivalents around the world. When I was a child in the UK, I remember watching Blue Peter. This television show for children would have fundraising campaigns, and one I remember is the saving of used stamps - these would be sent to the programme and the stamps sold by weight to dealers, with monies raised going to the charity chosen by the programme).
I am sorry I haven't been able to keep up-to-date with new stamp issues from around the world. Some postal authorities do not issue a calendar for the year.
A reminder - while it is nice to share pictures of incoming/outgoing mail (here, Instagram or elsewhere), please please obscure the other person's address - show your own address at your own risk, but please do not share that of others without their permission.
Nothing much really to report, due to unforeseen family circumstances, but I do hope I will be able to do a few new things this year. I had hoped to do more videos on snail mail, but for the moment, these have been put on hold.
Ongoing - I am still, still looking for the bigger charities around the world accepting stamps as donations (and then they can sell on to dealers and the philatelic world). The UK has many charities doing this - they may research into cancer or other illnesses, provide nurses, hospices, fund equipment at hospitals, support services, humanitarian causes..... but I would like to find equivalents around the world. When I was a child in the UK, I remember watching Blue Peter. This television show for children would have fundraising campaigns, and one I remember is the saving of used stamps - these would be sent to the programme and the stamps sold by weight to dealers, with monies raised going to the charity chosen by the programme).
I am sorry I haven't been able to keep up-to-date with new stamp issues from around the world. Some postal authorities do not issue a calendar for the year.
A reminder - while it is nice to share pictures of incoming/outgoing mail (here, Instagram or elsewhere), please please obscure the other person's address - show your own address at your own risk, but please do not share that of others without their permission.