Post by Mia on Aug 2, 2018 18:22:54 GMT
Summer has been in full force in many parts of the northern hemisphere. Hope the weather is kind to you all!
Nothing much really to report, due to unforeseen family circumstances (now ongoing), but I do hope I will be able to do a few new things this year. I had hoped to do more videos or audio on snail mail, but for the moment, these have been put on hold. I found myself reminiscing about websites/blogs of the past about snail mail. I have my own blogs, but should there be one for this forum with contributions from some members other than myself? I also changed my Instagram username to keep it separate from this forum, but we can make use of the hashtag #worldofsnailmail
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.
Travelling Notebooks/Journals. There are a few going round the US, but is there interest from elsewhere for global or local ones?
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 (now ongoing), but I do hope I will be able to do a few new things this year. I had hoped to do more videos or audio on snail mail, but for the moment, these have been put on hold. I found myself reminiscing about websites/blogs of the past about snail mail. I have my own blogs, but should there be one for this forum with contributions from some members other than myself? I also changed my Instagram username to keep it separate from this forum, but we can make use of the hashtag #worldofsnailmail
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.
Travelling Notebooks/Journals. There are a few going round the US, but is there interest from elsewhere for global or local ones?
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.