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Post by allanorn on May 9, 2023 2:29:55 GMT
Sent to the graveyard in the past 24 hours: - Rhodia Ice A5 Pad (will buy again)
- Etranger di Costarica A5 pad (will not buy again)
- 20-pack of Muji A5 kraft envelopes (would buy again if given the opportunity and the price is right)
>Etranger di Costarica A5 pad (will not buy again) Can I ask why you will not buy again? I have this on my shopping cart now (the ones on the art on the back), but I never used it before. Only worked with ballpoint and gel pens. Rollerballs and fountain pens, no matter what the line width or dryness of the ink, bled too much; it made my EF nibs almost unreadable.
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Post by allanorn on May 8, 2023 19:02:11 GMT
Sent to the graveyard in the past 24 hours: - Rhodia Ice A5 Pad (will buy again)
- Etranger di Costarica A5 pad (will not buy again)
- 20-pack of Muji A5 kraft envelopes (would buy again if given the opportunity and the price is right)
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Post by allanorn on Apr 3, 2023 21:23:28 GMT
Postage rate rise in the UK on 3rd April 2023, oh what fun! Good grief! It's "nice" to be able to send up to 100g for a single price internationally - but those are some international price increases. Not worth the weight increase, to be fair, as that really punishes letters just going across the Channel. Domestic increases seem to be not as bad, but still fairly steep.
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Post by allanorn on Mar 28, 2023 15:20:49 GMT
I have used the last of the Chrysanthemum "Global" stamps, and I hope to never see or use one again. Hahaha, is African Daisy more acceptable? I kept one sheet of global forever earth, moon, and succulent. I hope USPS come up with really nice one next. The Chrysanthemum stamps weren't bad, but they came out right at the beginning of the pandemic and reminded a number of people of the coronavirus. We've been looking at them for three years; I think it's just time to move on from them. The African Daisy stamps are pretty good.
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Post by allanorn on Mar 27, 2023 17:50:24 GMT
I have used the last of the Chrysanthemum "Global" stamps, and I hope to never see or use one again.
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Post by allanorn on Mar 16, 2023 19:26:05 GMT
I haven't finished anything off recently, but I'm sure close on a lot of different items.
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Post by allanorn on Mar 13, 2023 20:45:47 GMT
I don't really keep track of how many penpals I have because I get irregular letters from a lot of people. I keep tabs on how many people write regularly so I can identify if I should attempt to add more regular correspondents around InCoWriMo.
I keep about two dozen penpals plus some family on the "postcard" list for when I travel. I treat vacation postcards as extras, so I don't expect a response or expect others to send travel postcards. I really appreciate those who do send postcards to me while on their vacation though!
If I get more than a letter from someone (e.g., they wrote more than one InCoWriMo exchange), they get a Christmas card at the end of the year. This also acts as a check on who's actively writing. If I don't get a card or a letter back, I assume they've dropped off into the irregular list or have had to pause correspondence. Sometimes I'll get apology letters during the next InCoWriMo that they dropped off the face of the planet for a while!
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Post by allanorn on Feb 20, 2023 20:08:53 GMT
Primary is on the phone, backup is a Rolodex.
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Post by allanorn on Feb 6, 2023 0:07:27 GMT
If the seashells say "postcard" then I believe they are forever, and track the current postcard rate. Same, I think, for "additional ounce". The international ones definitely are "forever". The fox ones that I like are fixed denomination, sadly. Thank you for the clarification. It is kinda confusing for me. While postcard stamps are considered "Forever", and are always good for the domestic postcard rate - there are size restrictions for the postcard in order to use them. The minimum size is 3-1/2" by 5". The max size is 4" by 6-1/4". They also have to be relatively thin, so no wooden postcards (which have to be mailed at the non-machinable rate anyway).
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Post by allanorn on Jan 20, 2023 0:53:14 GMT
Finished the last sheet of "Wild and Scenic Rivers". Would buy again.
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Post by allanorn on Jan 5, 2023 20:58:42 GMT
Playing games via the post isn't new. Correspondence chess is the classic and still playable today. Another popular play-by-mail game is Diplomacy. They were more popular in the 1970s and 1980s as computing power was able to assist with sorting out what happened each turn. Our esteemed administrator sent a link on Discord to Adventure By Mail, and I picked up a couple that fancied my interest. But I found this blog post interesting as the game doesn't exist (yet!), but of course I could be persuaded to attempt to play a game if one started up. Has anyone tried a play-by-mail game? Has anyone completed a play-by-mail game?
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Post by allanorn on Jan 3, 2023 18:16:50 GMT
Killed off the last of the USPS "Total Eclipse of the Sun" and "Sun Science" stamps. I would be tempted to buy more if they were currently sold at the post office, but it wouldn't be a high priority.
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Post by allanorn on Dec 14, 2022 4:30:37 GMT
You know, the Tomie dePaola one might be worth picking up a set.
Do I pick up a coil (100 stamps) of additional-ounce brush rabbits? School buses aren't exactly exciting. Could pair them with the foxes or use two for postcard stamps in a pinch.
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Post by allanorn on Dec 14, 2022 4:25:26 GMT
A correspondent who I wasn't expecting a card from (just had a second child in May; hasn't written in months) sent a holiday card, so I was able to finish a second box of holiday cards today.
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Post by allanorn on Dec 11, 2022 0:21:38 GMT
Holiday cards are written and stamped, but need full sealing before I can send them.
The casualties are one box of cards, one roll of washi tape (so far), three booklets of stamps (2018 Birds of Winter, 2019 Winter Berries, 2022 Elves), and two glasses of wine.
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