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2024 Schedules for Åland, Finland & Macau
Late last week, announcements were made by several postal administrations for stamps to be issued in 2024. As a result, I was able to add the full year’s schedule for Åland and half-year schedules for both Finland and Macau. All three now have their dedicated 2024 pages along with galleries to showcase their stamps (although Continue reading
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Maxis on Mondays #4: Etruscan Writing from Venda
This is one of many cards in my collection that I have no recollection of where or when I obtained it. It may have been in a mixed lot. I never gave it more than a cursory look before yesterday. It is my only item — stamp, cover, maxi-card — from the former Republic of Continue reading
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More 2024 Stamps, Plus a Calendar!
It has been a VERY busy couple of days! I had planned to spend Monday and Tuesday continuing my updates of the 2023 schedule pages but got derailed with a near avalanche of 2024 schedule announcements and many new images of stamps to be released throughout the new year. This meant adding a number of Continue reading
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Maxis on Mondays #3: Santa Fe’s Palace
Nearly 20 years ago, I left the United States to come and live on an island in southern Thailand. While I do not miss much about the nation of my birth, some of my fondest memories revolve around the state of New Mexico. From its unique cuisines to the varied natural settings and all of Continue reading
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First 2024 Stamps, Index & Changelog
Starting in October, the first few announcements of stamps to be released in the upcoming year start to trickle out of postal administration press rooms around the world. For each of the past several years, those of Åland have been among the first; they usually announce their entire upcoming program all at once including images Continue reading
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Disney 100
A Listing of Stamps Issued for the 100th Anniversary of Disney, 2023 The Disney 100 Years of Wonder celebration commemorates the founding of the Walt Disney Company on October 16, 1923. The centennial celebration began at the end of 2022 and will continue through July 2024. Commonly known simply as Disney, the multinational mass media Continue reading
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World Post Day – 9 Oct 2023
World Post Day is celebrated each year on 9 October, the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union in 1874 in the Swiss Capital, Bern. It was declared World Post Day by the UPU Congress held in Tokyo, Japan in 1969. Since then, countries across the world participate annually in the celebrations. The Continue reading
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Maxis on Mondays #2: COVID from Kyrgyzstan
The first Maxis on Mondays two weeks ago featured my earliest maximum cards with one featuring a 6 March 1894 cancellation. This post includes the most recent maxis in my collection. Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia, lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the Continue reading
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10 Years of My Local Post
On 9 October 2013, Muang Phuket Local Post (MPLP) released its first two stamps — a definitive portraying the Talat Yai police station’s clock tower in Phuket Town, Thailand, and a commemorative marking World Post Day. On 27 October 2018, the micronation of Republica Phuketia was established and sheets of the final definitive issues of Continue reading
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World Postcard Day – 1 Oct 2023
The humble postcard had its origins on 1 October 1869 when the Austrian Post issued light brown rectangular Correspondenz-Karte measuring 8.5×12 centimeters. There was space for the address on the front and an imprinted 2-kreuzer stamp in the top right cover. Room for a short message by the sender was on the front of the Continue reading
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