Below is a photo of a letter to America, postmarked by the Philatelic Service of the State Postal and Telecommunications. This envelope immediately raised a lot of questions. With this summer stamp, the envelope is franked at the bottom and the postmark appears to have been printed...
Some time ago, I wrote in my column how chance can sometimes produce wonderful philatelic results. At the club evening, I discussed this with Lei Knarren, known for his extremely serious philately. I spoke about 'social philately,' in which...
Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza (* July 31, 1914 in Courbevoie; † January 27, 1983 in Nantes), was a French actor and comedian. He was also a director and wrote scripts. As the name suggests, he was...
Ohrid, the city of light, showed us the golden immortal faces of its angels once again after two and a half millennia. The discovery of priceless treasures from the village of Trebenište, located on the Ohrid-Kiževo road, is as if from a...
Greek medicine reached such heights as early as antiquity that it remained the scientific basis of all medical science without significant changes well into the 19th century. The poems of Homer already show...
Ladies, 'Brussels Binder' is the next step in the fight to achieve equality. You are not asking for favors, you are not asking for privileges, you are asking for equality. Our greatest challenge is to show in practice what...
Messages in Winterfell, Westeros, and Essos no longer need to be sent by crow, dragon, rider, or bishop. That back-and-forth travel of noble persons to arrange all intrigues and negotiations is superfluous: it can now be...
Royal Mail has been criticized for having no plans to issue commemorative stamps in response to Brexit. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who supported the campaign to introduce these stamps, said: "Leaving the...
Over the years, people have used all kinds of animals to deliver mail. The dog sled was once the only way to deliver mail, and reindeer were also used for this purpose in Alaska, Canada. The 'Pony Express' used horses and...
During Sinterklaas time, all sorts of old memories surface again. Recently, I found a relic from long-gone times: a mission kit. If you collected stamps, a nice and inexpensive gift was always close at hand. You picked them up at the bookstore or...
I have been confronted with a new branch of science. One that interests me greatly. It is behavioral economics. This branch of science investigates why we handle our money the way we do. And the key figure in this new field is...
On December 31, the KEP, Kyrgyzstan's second official postal service, released a notepad featuring five celebrities. These individuals are of importance to everyone. They are: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), who was born 350 years ago. He has beautiful...
Do you still understand it every now and then? The changes and discoveries are sometimes happening so fast that it drives you crazy. Yet they are important discoveries and measurements, and it is important that you understand something of them, because it...
We have previously devoted attention to the 'Facteur Cheval' in these columns. Facteur Cheval was a postman in the small town of Hautes Rives in the Drôme department of France. He strolled his route every day, even as a young man, and...
A surprise bag, or 'Wundertüte' as our eastern neighbors call it. It is a small, closed, rectangular paper bag in which a surprise is hidden. You could buy it or receive it for free with some product. You can...
In the 1970s, I had the opportunity to visit Tanzania. Quite an undertaking, because the country was fairly socialist at the time and therefore not at all inclined to please tourists...
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