What Was In Your Mailbox Today??

Today I got some fantasy coins and stamps from the Shire Post Mint. At some point I need to start a thread about the latter in the Cinderellas forum. I also finally got a book that I bought from a Japanese seller on the Amazon Marketplace on October 30th — 112 days by surface mail, since Japan Post cut off airmail service to the U.S. because of the reduction in commercial flights due to COVID.

Received a brand new 2016-17 Hungarian stamp catalog. To my pleasant surprise, it includes revenue stamps and postal stationary and is a hardback. Just in initial browsing, I'm impressed by the coverage, the details missing from Scott. Things I need to get used to - the heaviness of this book, the organization of most stamps by date and not type (compared to Scott), learning a different listing format, and using Google translate since my Hungarian is limited. All good fun and increasing knowledge!

A letter that was mailed from Rome, Italy on 15 December 2020. I am still waiting on another one from that same time


Peter

Along with two philatelic reference works from the APS, a copy of Balloon Post of the Siege of Paris (American Air Mail Society, 1976) which is mainly a translation of Louis Chaintrier's French series of articles.

Looking forward to perusing it, although it has remarkable fine print which will certainly not relax my old eyes. But for $11 it ought to yield more entertaining hours than a first run movie, not that we're going to the theater these days.

For my Oranges Philately collection:


A set of Amusement Tax stamps for the community of Petah Tikva (several spellings),
a Jewish settlement now in Israel,
featuring an orange tree, adapted from the Petah Tikva coat of arms.

Junk mail with no stamps, only meters and labels. I wish there was a way to discourage meters, but I guess that will never happen.

I am trying to create a young philatelist out of my granddaughter. Today she "wrote a letter" and we put it in an envelope with a stamp, addressed to her house (my son and she live only 10 minutes from here). I want her to understand how stamps work, and how mail gets delivered.

My mother, though never really a collector, always encouraged me. Whenever she mails me something, she always uses interesting stamps, usually not the "Forever" stuff. In my postal history collection, I always enjoyed receiving letters from certain lawyers or other agencies who actually used stamps.

Bobby T




Why not collect them??

https://www.meterstampsociety.com/

Dan

This arrived in my mailbox. I finally won an eBay auction, a small collection page of 16 Hong Kong stamps, that took 19 days to arrive from North Carolina to Iowa. The top 4 stamps are shown below, for my Hong Kong cancel collection...

1) Scott #36b - Wmk. 2 - Queen Victoria 2 cent carmine with partial 62B killer. (the common HK killer is B62)

2) Scott #74 - Wmk 2 - King Edward VII 5 cent with OAHU Hawaii killer, probably paquebot receiver at Honolulu, need to verify, the break in the circle at left is a strong clue. This is the second Hawaii cancel on a HK stamp in my collection.

3) Scott #78 - Wmk 2 - King Edward VII 20 cent revenue usage with purple oval from The National Bank of China, Limited.

4) Scott #72 - Wmk 2 - King Edward VII 2 cent with nice Shanghai index C strike dated May 5, 1905.

Linus

Why not? I never thought about that but will take a look at the link you sent. There must be something interesting about them after all. I have a ton of covers I saved over the years with meters, but have no idea how to sort or organize them or what features to look for so I appreciate your suggestion.

Postalhysteria, what exactly are "amusement stamps." Certainly not space for them in my Davo albums.

Andyrich, it is "amusement TAX stamps"


Peter

Received 3 wonderful packets from my buddy Rod from down under.

Sorry I have not pics my scanner is out of commission.

Dianne

Stuff I've been waiting for since Jan 20. Better late than never although things were jostled all over the place.

Came home yesterday and my new extra large mailbox and post had been flattened. I found some broken taillight glass but no note so I was stewing for a few hours. Later in the evening when my doorbell rang and found one of my neighbors standing there; she explained that she hit it while backing up and offered to pay for it. Since she owned up and was considerate enough to offer to pay for it, I told her to forget about it. She restored my faith in humankind.
So I hit the store this morning, got what I needed, and just finished mounting a new post and mailbox. All is good, no missed mail.
Don