The AnchoredScraps Sunday Mail bag is today’s blog post topic.

We are looking at some updates from previous blog posts here and a look ahead!

AnchoredScraps Sunday Mail bag

Happy Sunday!

First of all, it was a delight to receive a real snail mail from Jacob Cramer thanking me for my December 29th blog post on the upcoming Writing Letters of Kindness to the Elderly 21-day letterwriting kindness challenge begins January 30, 2016.  There is still time to make plans and to participate, I’m going to be and hope you will join me!

It has been so much fun to begin collecting Valentines for participating in the upcoming Homefront Hugs USA Valentines.  There is still time to participate – they need to receive your Valentines by February 8th.

The Nancy Drew Mystery with regards to my blog post about Samuel Morse – it was solved, and along with it a call for equal time for The Hardy Boys!  About that mystery: I posed the question why was the demonstration by Samuel Morse conducted in the Supreme Court building?

My stamp club friend shared with me this was not the first use of his telegraph and referred me to this page on Samuel Morse sharing:  “In the end Morse managed to secure the financial backing from the Maine congressman Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith. In 1842, Morse successfully deployed his telegraph system between the two Capitol committee rooms in the Washington D.C. Successful demonstration gained him the $30.000 contract to connect the two congress buildings in Washington and Baltimore. During 1843 he successfully deployed the 38 mile telegraph line along the way of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. First official use of that system was on May 1, 1844 when the news Whig Party’s nomination of Henry Clay for U.S. President was telegraphed from Baltimore to Washington. Impressive official demonstration of Samuel Morse’s telegraph happened on May 24, 1844, carrying the famous worlds “What hath God wrought” from the Supreme Court chamber in Washington D.C. to the B&O’s Mount Clare Station in Baltimore. To this day, this demonstration is remembered as the starting point of telegraph’s expansion across the world.”

In follow-up to my blog post on the 10 Thousand Red Pears Stamps my stamp club friend shared that the reason the coil is so large is for the machines that feed them and as we have talked and about before on a previous blog post here, direct mail when added with what is a ‘real’ stamp tends to get opened more by the receiver, and “multiple stamps on the envelope is even better.” They shared:  “The coils of 10,000 are manufactured for large commercial mass mailing companies… The mass mailers use these coils in automatic stamp affixing machines and smaller coils would just slow them down having to reload the machines.  And on January 22, Linn’s article on the New definitive series begins with 10¢ Red Pears coil reported: “A smaller “strip” of 500 stamps can be ordered from USPS Stamp Fulfillment Services for $50 as USPS item 799315, but no additional information about any other smaller ordering increments for mint stamps was revealed.”

It has been a honor to find out this weekend my blog post “Keep Moving” – Celebrating Dick Van Dyke’s 90th Birthday! was recognized in the Empire.Kred Blogathon 2015 Results under the category “Special Awards from the Blogathon Organisers” as one of their favourite blogs!  The entry had been suggested to be entered and it has been so much fun to participate.

Thank you for continuing to be on this daily blog journey with me.  This next week will find us with having one month to countdown of having blogged daily for a full year and we’ll make it a leap year at that!   There is still so much planned to cover between now and February 26, 2016 !

Join me tomorrow as we kick off a new week here at AnchoredScraps.com!

Anchors Aweigh,  

Helen

Attribution & Thank you to the following who are referenced today —

Thank you to my stamp club friend with the  Wilmington Philatelic Society for sharing insights as referenced above today.

Samuel Morse web site

Linn’s article on the New definitive series begins with 10¢ Red Pears coil January 22, 2016

Empire.Kred Blogathon 2015 Results January 21,2015

AnchoredScraps.com blog posts written by Helen Rittersporn:

 Writing Letters of Kindness to the Elderly December 29, 2015;
Homefront Hugs USA Valentines January 15, 2016;
Nancy Drew, and Raymond Reddington January 07, 2016 ;
10 Thousand Red Pears Stamps; January 20, 2016 and
“Keep Moving” – Celebrating Dick Van Dyke’s 90th Birthday!  December 13, 2015