Post by Mia on Jun 18, 2020 18:35:10 GMT
The world has changed since my last Site News update.
Postal services have been, and still are, affected by Covid-19 outbreak. Snail mail can be slow, and can be even slower than usual due to decreased air traffic. Postcrossing's Postal Monitor page can give you an overview of mail suspensions from countries to international destinations. For further information, look at your own postal authority's website for service/status updates.
Next month will be the 5th anniversary of the forum. To celebrate, I would like to suggest you all do something snail-maily, be it writing letters, sending postcards (hurrah, Postcrossing will have its 15th anniversary - great thanks to them as through them, I properly rekindled my joy of sending nice post), reading letters (your received, even Letters of Note, or other books of letters), filing/organising your letters, organising your letter writing stationery, making envelopes, even shopping for letter writing stationery or postage stamps to use for the sending of nice mail. Consider coming up with Five Questions, to be answered by snail mail.
Ongoing - I am occasionally 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).
A couple of reminders:
While it is nice to share pictures of incoming/outgoing mail (here, Instagram or elsewhere), please please obscure the other person's address (in the UK, a postcode is nearly the same as showing the street name) - show your own address at your own risk, but please do not share that of others without their permission.
Be careful also when using the quote button to reply, please do not quote someone else's postal address. I do see this still happening on other forums/comment sites.
Postal services have been, and still are, affected by Covid-19 outbreak. Snail mail can be slow, and can be even slower than usual due to decreased air traffic. Postcrossing's Postal Monitor page can give you an overview of mail suspensions from countries to international destinations. For further information, look at your own postal authority's website for service/status updates.
Next month will be the 5th anniversary of the forum. To celebrate, I would like to suggest you all do something snail-maily, be it writing letters, sending postcards (hurrah, Postcrossing will have its 15th anniversary - great thanks to them as through them, I properly rekindled my joy of sending nice post), reading letters (your received, even Letters of Note, or other books of letters), filing/organising your letters, organising your letter writing stationery, making envelopes, even shopping for letter writing stationery or postage stamps to use for the sending of nice mail. Consider coming up with Five Questions, to be answered by snail mail.
Ongoing - I am occasionally 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).
A couple of reminders:
While it is nice to share pictures of incoming/outgoing mail (here, Instagram or elsewhere), please please obscure the other person's address (in the UK, a postcode is nearly the same as showing the street name) - show your own address at your own risk, but please do not share that of others without their permission.
Be careful also when using the quote button to reply, please do not quote someone else's postal address. I do see this still happening on other forums/comment sites.