1601 - From Monica in Sweden. I have had Lena Anderson's January to April so far. I wonder if I'll get any more (hint, hint!) The following cards and letters arrived in late February and early March.
1441 - 'At the Window' by Hans Heyerdahl (1857-1913), from Danielle in the USA.
1443 - Mon ami Francais, Damien, has just been to New York.
1446 - Beynac (Dordogne) - a typical landscape of the Dordogne Valley from Damien.
1455 - This is a card I sent myself. Why, you may ask. I was testing whether my request to the postal sorting office to hand stamp my postcards was being taken note of. The card itself is one of my absolute favourites.
The Post Office did frank it by hand so the card wasn't damaged by the machinery and the framk looks so much nicer than the machine one.
1461 - This super card came from Ellen, a postcrosser from Amsterdam.
This was one of the stamps -
I'll say as much as I did buy the whole set... (hint, hint!)
ReplyDeleteAnd your recent cards have indeed arrived nicely hand-franked. Are you bribing those guys at the post office?!
One amusing incident took place - the whole plastic envelope with three cards in got sent to one of the recipients in Germany. Fortunately it was someone I swap with and she was kind enough to stick German stamps on them and re-post them.
ReplyDeleteI thought the same as Dawn... We don't have this possibility here. I mean, we can't ask for that, but indeed a lot of letters are hand cancelled. It doesn't mean the cancellation looks so neat, though.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know you like football (or have I forgotten?). Also is something new for me to look for... :D