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Years ago for my sister's 30th birthday, I did a fun project involving the USPS. I wanted to send her the message "Happy Belated Thirtieth Birthday!", which is 30 characters, via postcards, one character per postcard. I found 30 post offices in unique places throughout the U.S. (For example, I found a town that had the same name as her given name in Illinois. I found another with my name, etc.) I used Zazzle to print…
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During my research I learned there's a Bridal Veil, Oregon which is a ghost town except for a post office, which folks like to use to send their wedding invitations. https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/why-brides-grooms-are-f...
Sounds like Loveland CO where my aunt said they remail valentine's postcards.
In this case it seems particularly clear: look at the glue markings in the middle of the card. This indicates this postcard probably has been sitting in a collectors' album for quite some time, before someone thought of removing it and pulling a joke.
This sort of thing happens all the time by people who post the card after it has been sitting in a collection for some time. Since it is a valid card, the post office will deliver it nonetheless. That's what they do! (Here's a Dutch example: https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/kerstkaart-na-ruim-halve-eeuw-a...)
Disclaimer: I checked this with an acclaimed philatelic collector.
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There are a couple services that allow you to write a letter to your future self and get it delivered in X months/years.
I had a substitute high school teacher one day who made us all write letters to ourselves, then sent them to us like 20 years later long after we'd forgotten about it. It was amazing!
Speaking of USPS: I shipped a package from Japan to my home in San Francisco, 3 months ago. The package arrived two days ago. I opened it... And realized the content has been "replaced" with junk books of (I assume) a similar weight of the original. The content was a few ceramic plates, a few books, some tea - nothing particularly expensive, but these were items that we bought during our stay in Japan. I hate this. I…
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http://500years.royalmailgroup.com/gallery/delivery-frequenc... In the UK it was up to 12 times / day in cities!
To some degree, I'm sure it was a plot device but 19th century English novels often depended on rapid/same-day communications via letter at least in the environs of London.
Speaking of USPS: I shipped a package from Japan to my home in San Francisco, 3 months ago. The package arrived two days ago. I opened it... And realized the content has been "replaced" with junk books of (I assume) a similar weight of the original. The content was a few ceramic plates, a few books, some tea - nothing particularly expensive, but these were items that we bought during our stay in Japan. I hate this. I…
Years ago for my sister's 30th birthday, I did a fun project involving the USPS. I wanted to send her the message "Happy Belated Thirtieth Birthday!", which is 30 characters, via postcards, one character per postcard. I found 30 post offices in unique places throughout the U.S. (For example, I found a town that had the same name as her given name in Illinois. I found another with my name, etc.) I used Zazzle to print…
My mother did something like that, but as a prank on my brother who was at the time in a military hospital. (This during the Vietnam days.) What she did was got an atlas and identified every town whose name was at all romantic. (Things like Loving, New Mexico.) The postcards that she had come back appeared to be from random girls with as different as she could make the handwriting to be. It was all timed to show up o…