Send a Card Won't you?

Hey everyone! I just stumbled across another cause that is looking for cards. The beneficiary of this cause is a little girl by the name of Eva. She is 11 years old and went through a kidney transplant in January. Since then she has basically been housebound. A family is collecting cards for her and will deliver them in person. Here is the address:

Culver's Attention: Eva
1912 State Route 256
Reynoldsburg, OH 43068

I will be mailing out a card today. Will you?

Postcrossing

I finally did it. I jumped into Postcrossing again. I had limited myself to only sending 5 of the 13 I could send at once...and then I accidentally hit the button one more time. Its quite addictive isn't it? Well I think I will try to limit the number of cards I send out through the site in the future. I love sending and receiving cards, but I would honestly rather spend my postage connecting with all of you! So no worries, Postcrossing will not cut into my stamp budget for my wonderful penpals!

Do you still Postcross?

Self Service Kiosk

Does your post office have a self service kiosk? Have you ever used it? I used one for the first time recently. Or at least its the first time I can recall using one. I decided to print some international postage (someone failed to order any on her last stamp order...) and it was surprisingly easy. I just touched the screen found the international postage option and selected how many. Within a few minutes I had postage printed without waiting in a line.

Biggest downside as far as I am concerned is that the postage isn't all that pretty. But in a pinch if you needed to mail something after hours at the post office or on a Sunday (which is when I will most likely make it to the post office) the kiosk may work for you! I also thought this may be the perfect way to avoid stares from the postal employees when I mail out frisbees or other odd "packages".

More soon!

Postage Release: Little Mo Forever Stamp

Today is the official release of the "Little Mo" postage stamp. Depicted on the stamp is Maureen Connolly Brinker who was known by the nickname Little Mo. She was a world class tennis star and the first woman to win all four grand slam tournaments in the same calendar year in 1953. Unfortunately, the following year she suffered an injury that ended her competitive career. And in 1955 she officially retired from the sport when she announced her marriage to Norman Brinker, a member of the Olympic equestrian team. (Also interesting to note the Norman went on to create the business concept known as the salad bar.) Maureen passed away, well before her time, at the age of 34 from complications related to ovarian cancer.

One of the things I really enjoy about featuring new stamp releases is getting to know more about the subjects portrayed. I had no idea who "Little Mo" was, other than she must have been good at Tennis. In my research, I learned so much more about the lady who made big enough impact to be immortalized on US postage. 

Did you know about Little Mo before this post? Do you plan on buying these stamps? I know I will be getting a few!

Monday Mail Call

Just as I have said I would do a post on Sundays about stamps, Mondays will be a Mail Call. Above is a picture of my most recent sent items. Mostly postcards, but there is a letter (with the John Lennon stamp) for a follower as well. Behind the mail you can see my mail box. Or well, the mailboxes, mine is actual #7 and that is hidden behind the mail. Quite boring right? I will have to snap a picture of the post office box to share on here the next time I pop into the PO. (It isn't pretty either I'm afraid). 

The postcards I sent were vintage ones I purchased on Ebay. I found a wonderful seller that wasn't trying to get an arm and a leg for them. I am slowly attempting to amass a collection of stationery so I have all necessary items on hand to reply and send lots of happy mail. I've even been thinking about starting Postcrossing again. Does anyone still do that? Anyway, I hope those postcards and letters arrive in their destinations soon. Closest one is going about an hour away here in Oregon, and the farthest is headed off to Switzerland. :)

I should hop off for now, I have more posts to research and letters to write. What did you send this week?  

Stamp Sunday

So I had decided that I would do a regular post on Sundays that highlighted stamps I was fond of. Well as it does sometimes, life got in my way of having a post ready for today. So instead I will be showing you my first stamp haul from the USPS website.

After uploading I realized that the photo shows most of the stamps upside down. If I had more time (it is Easter after all ) I would have flipped the picture for you. But I think you can still get the idea from this. I bought just under $50 in stamps to jump start my collection of recents to send. I will definitely be placing another order (my original cart was almost $150!) but decided to wait a bit and slowly add more to the collection. 

Short post for today, but I am curious...Do you purchase your stamps at the post office? Or do you purchase online? I prefer to pick them up at the post office, but mine doesn't seem to have much variety. (You know posters on the wall of all the pretty ones, but only carried the basics.)

Enjoy your Sunday! Happy Easter to those of you that celebrate!

Post Office Box

So as some of you may have read in a previous post I have signed up for a PO box. Normally I just received mail at my physical location, however here in Oregon I do not have a mail box at my house. (Sad I know). We have a centralized mailbox and to be honest that bums me out. When I thought about starting the whole letting writing thing again I decided I would do a post office box. Things have changed a bit since I wrote this blog before and I am not as trusting as I once was to post a physical address online. I am sure you all understand.

My question for all of you that have post office boxes is...How often do you check it? If I am honest I probably will not check mine but maybe once a week unless for some reason the amount of mail increases. My job is close to home so the post office (for much of my week) is considered out of the way. Lets face it sometimes when you are finished with work the last thing on your mind is driving out of your way to check the mail. (Maybe that will change with an influx of happy mail)

Anyway, it feels good to get back in the swing of writing. If you have made it this far with me thank you! I appreciate your patience while I figure out how to balance work/writing with everything else in life.

More soon my friends!