Nowadays, endless lists of candidates are distributed door-to-door without being addressed. The voter's pass, the proof of identity with which you as a voter can go to the polling station to receive a ballot there – after verification of your identity – is issued in the name...
The frequency of scheduled flights used to transport mail was much lower in the 30s than it is today. I therefore looked through my collection at the connections between Amsterdam and the Dutch East Indies and vice versa during that period. That is how it came...
It is always exciting to search through a bin of mail items at exhibitions and fairs for beautiful and usable specimens. That is what I did during Postex 2011 in Apeldoorn. There, I came across an envelope with a striking red express strip...
Those were the days. The postman who came by up to seven times a day in big cities to deliver the mail. Even on Sundays, mail deliveries were quite normal back then. But more and more people were having trouble...
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