U.S. Postal stationery (1 Viewer)

[Pinewood]

Hello,

I purchased a box of 500 postal stationery #10 envelopes, on which is printed a purple martin:

See:

U.S. Post Office

I know that snail mail is on the way out, but I still get to use them. In any case, you don't have to order 500, if you want a handsome bird on your correspondence.

Happy bird watching,
Arthur Pinewood :hi:

 

[Marmot]

Its about time the Royal Mail over here did some Bird ones.

These were the last decent ones they had and that was about 5 years ago.
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/bird-stamps.html#cr

 

[Pinewood]

Hello Marmot,

The U.S. Postal Service favours art over photography and does not have to have a portrait of the head of state on its stamps and stationery. I think the purple martin looks nicer than those Royal Mail stamps, just as I prefer the Peterson guide [art] over the Audubon Society guide [photographs]

Happy bird watching,
Arthur :hi:

 

[Sancho]

The Irish Postal Service ("An Post") regularly produces birds, flowers and wildlife series. They had a nice BoP set about two years ago. Here´s all their sets on birds since 1999:
http://www.birdtheme.org/country/ireland.html

 

[Pinewood]

The Irish Postal Service ("An Post") regularly produces birds, flowers and wildlife series. They had a nice BoP set about two years ago. Here´s all their sets on birds since 1999:
http://www.birdtheme.org/country/ireland.html

Sancho,

Very nice artwork on those stamps. It is also very clever to produce that duck sheet. Who would want to use the stamps and be left with grass and reeds?

Here in New York City, several post office used to have "philatelic windows," but they seem to have vanished. It was an open secret that the lines at the philatelic counters were short and the place to go for stamps, alone. I think that the U.S. Postal service expects stamp collectors to order online.

Happy bird watching,
Arthur :hi:

 

[Gill Osborne]

I know that snail mail is on the way out, but I still get to use them...

Not necessarily There's still a few dinosaurs like myself and a LOT of keen writers in the USA who still prefer 'old-fashioned' letters over emails :t:
I recently took part in Month Of Letters and this year there were 1800 people taking part which is AMAZING!!!!!! :eek!: Roll on LetterMo 2014 o

http://lettermo.com/

Wish our UK postal service would produce stuff like this though - it's so hard to find nice natural history themed paper to write on :smoke: The envelopes aren't so much a problem as I decorate my own :t:

Gorgeous stamps too :t:

 

[Pinewood]

Hello Gill,

Perhaps you would like stationery similar to
these notecards with a bird and a wild rose. I had to write a lot thank you notes, and these were suitable.

Happy bird watching,
Arthur :hi:

 

[MI_Phil]

Purple Martin

I picked up several of the "forever" stamped envelopes at the U.S. Post Office, Took a close up shot of the art work today.

phil

 

[Swissboy]

I picked up several of the "forever" stamped envelopes at the U.S. Post Office, Took a close up shot of the art work today.

phil

Thanks Phil. Makes one really appreciate this piece of art!

 

[JTweedie]

I didn't realise that wildlife art was such a big part of stamps in the US, although I do remember one of the characters in the film Fargo painted wildfowl in the hope of them being on stamps.

 

[JTweedie]

I recently took part in Month Of Letters and this year there were 1800 people taking part which is AMAZING!!!!!! :eek!: Roll on LetterMo 2014 o

http://lettermo.com/

Can't say I'm a letter writer, but I can really understand the romanticism of this and taking life a little slower. You'd probably appreciate a response more when you need to wait longer to receive it too! I'll pass you link on to someone in work - she enjoys arts and crafts and she might really appreciate this.

 

[fugl]

I didn't realise that wildlife art was such a big part of stamps in the US, although I do remember one of the characters in the film Fargo painted wildfowl in the hope of them being on stamps.

His paintings weren't destined for postage stamps but for "duck stamps", which wildfowlers are required to buy to legally hunt their prey. New ones are issued annually by both the federal and state governments and there is great competition among artists to get paintings accepted for these stamps.

 

[Pinewood]

Hello,

In the good old days, before the internet, there was a special breed of stamp collectors, who wanted stamps by topic. Wildlife was an important subject for topical collectors.

The U.S. Post Office has done a terrible thing: the vending machines at the post office only produce monochrome stamps with that horrid new style coding. If one wants a multicolored commemorative stamp, he has to wait for personal "service."

Happy bird watching,
Arthur :hi:

 

[JTweedie]

His paintings weren't destined for postage stamps but for "duck stamps", which wildfowlers are required to buy to legally hunt their prey. New ones are issued annually by both the federal and state governments and there is great completion among artists to get their paintings accepted for these stamps.

I didn't know that, thanks for the explanation. According to trivia on imdb, the stamps in Fargo were real, painted by friends of the Coen brothers. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/trivia - I think it's these guys: http://www.hautman.com/index.html

 

[fugl]

I didn't know that, thanks for the explanation. According to trivia on imdb, the stamps in Fargo were real, painted by friends of the Coen brothers. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/trivia - I think it's these guys: http://www.hautman.com/index.html

Interesting--thanks for the links. I'm a great fan of the Coen brother's movies and of Fargo in particular

 

[Pinewood]

Hello,

I finished that box of 500 stamped envelopes with purple martins, so I purchased another box of 500 envelopes, which feature the eastern bluebird. The eastern bluebird is the official bird of both New York and Missouri. Although I live in New York, I have seen it rarely: once or twice and heard it on another occasion.

Stay safe,
Arthur

 

[Pinewood]

Hello,

I had Eastern bluebirds on my mind for some reason. The current postal stationery depicts barn swallows.


Stay safe,
Arthur

 

[KC Foggin]

I'm posting an Eastern Bluebird for you tonight Arthur