Welcome letter writing enthusiasts and those new and/or rediscovering the joys of letter writing. We celebrate letter writing here!
Whether the topic focuses on buying your first fountain pen, downloading a printable for jotting down a few whimsical sentiments, sending a post card, dusting off your typewriter, the joys of selecting vintage or new postage to our envelope cachets, adding to our stationery stash, or simply hand-writing a letter – it’s all fun and part of the journey with a blog post by Helen Rittersporn.
Here you will find ongoing encouragement to regularly carve out a few precious moments to connect with others via “old” styles of correspondence, specifically in letter writing.
We are looking this morning at the USPS 1945 Victory at Last WWII Sheet of stamps from 1995. Yesterday was the 74th Anniversary of VE Day. If you have a few minutes this morning, grab a cup of coffee, hot tea, or diet coke
Seeing this photo at lunch right now has me captioning it with “Cooper sending early DogMom greetings”! At the end of my post today’, I’m also including one of him from a September 2017 post with his pool photo that day too. In addition,
With it being National Teacher Appreciation Week 2019 (held during the first week of May), we are looking at the RSVPrintables School Teacher Card Bundle. Furthermore, today is National Teacher Day, May 7, 2019. RSVPrintables School Teacher Card Bundle Over at Etsy, the listing
The 2019 National Postal Forum Pictorial Postmark has a booth at the NPF in Indianapolis, IN. Happy Monday morning! It is the first full week of May and as a reminder, be sure to get Mother’s Day cards into the mail today! First, I’m
Mother’s Day is a week from today so we are continuing from last Sunday with looking at three more USPS stationery sets available, perfect letter writing gift options! First, blogging about today’s topic is a little bit of a challenge for me given my
May the Fourth Be With You as we look at this 2007 41c Star Wars Fleetwood First Day Cover. Before beginning, it was really sad yesterday learning of the passing of Peter Mayhew (age 74). I’m including the BBC News article link Peter Mayhew:
I’m seeing a First Edition copy of “A Picture Postcard History of Baseball” by Ron Menchine. “A selected historical view of baseball from the early 1900’s to the late 1950’s. Also included reference information for the postcard collector.” The Introduction is by Ernie Harwell.
On May 10 at Promontory Summit in Utah, the USPS is having their first-day-of-issue for the Transcontinental Railroad Stamps. They are commemorating “… the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad … with a magnificent set of Forever stamps.” One can pre-order
