What Was In Your Mailbox Today??

John

Sadly, John, it was incorporated in a text, and subsequently disappeared.

hello all. a nice letter all the way from clio, ca,. and inside were special printing issues set scott 756-765 also 754-755 and 771.what a good stamp day for me I enjoyed putting them in the album. cheers ken

I'm pretty sure we can recover that. Just sayin'

My contest prize arrived today! Can't wait to open it and see what's inside!



OMG!

The card had images of C1-C3 in same area where stamps were added.

Since it is short postage and noticing damage, I suspect a 32 cent stamp was removed during mail sorting.

Received my box from Willwood42's recent giveaway. Looks like it's going to be a lot of fun to work through. I look forward to digging in this weekend.

Dale

Hello.
Today I received a letter from my friend in Houston with a lot of stamps of my themed coats of arms, illustrated with a drawing of the lighthouse in my city and the Moorish castle behind.
He is good at drawing and he likes it, even watercolors, I have saved almost all of his illustrated envelopes.
I have told him that he has to come, he almost knows my city from drawing it so much.
Regards.

Just as as Nicholas C and StatesmanStamper above, I received my package from Willwood's giveaway. He said he would be giving away several boxes of stamps and a few envelopes as runners up. I got one of the runner up envelopes, and it was fantastic, must be a couple of thousand stamps altogether, very little duplication and custom fitted to the few country preferences I had indicated. He even used the same Herman Melville stamps on my envelope that he used on Nicholas C's box! Looks like I'll be having a lot of fun sorting through them and already I can see I'll be filling a lot of empty spaces in my collection. I sent Willwood a personal thank you through his private email but would like to give him a shout out here on the public forum. Thanks, Willwood!

That's a great cover, Roberto, just a beautiful custom cachet!

I purchase First Day Covers from USPS mainly to acquire just one sample of a stamp - especially handy if you want to get its coil format. What I did not expect was to get BOTH a Waving Flag 2022 coil WITH a plate number as well as a School Bus 2023 Additional Postage stamp also with a coil number (partially marked over by the vertical gridlines of the FDC stamp). Since they appear on every 27th stamp of a coil roll for the Waving Flags and I think 30th one for the School Bus, such an occurrence would be uncommon but far from scarce or rare. However, would a FDC with coils both having plate numbers be considered scarce? Have you ever received FDCs with such stamps?



No matter it was a pleasant surprise.

I collect Great Britain, and have completed it to a point where I would have to mortgage my house to afford to fill the few empty spaces, so now I'm buying a few of the older items on cover, Queen Victoria issues, KG VI first day covers, etc. I also am trying to get as many different Postage Due and To Pay stamps on cover as I can find. My latest purchase was a lot of 12 pieces from a dealer in the UK. (It's hard to find anything in the US). It consisted of several items from the 1937-38 set, the 1970 set and the 1982 set, and denominations range from one penny to one pound. Intriguingly, some of them are from overseas, and addressed to the UK: one is from the US, one from Italy, one from France and one each from Jersey and Guernsey, but all with GB To Pay stamps. Also, they represent an interesting variety of reasons for the To Pay stamps being applied. With the one from France, the sender tried sending the letter using a Cinderella instead of a real stamp, and the Jersey and Guernsey ones were from the respective Philatelic Bureaus and the To Pay stamps were to collect Customs duty , all in all a nice little collection

A recent auction win - my wallet calls it "loss" - expanding my Dutch collection.

What I find striking about the Dutch issues of the 1930s is how strikingly modern - indeed, ahead of their time in stamp design - many of them appear.

Even better, I suppose, as these are from the 1920s. Except for the 1928 issue advertising the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, these are all special stamp issues from 1924 until 1929.