Indian Covers

I received these two covers from India in the latest monthly Cover Exchange on StampBoards. 

On the first cover, the minisheet depicts Horses of India whilst the single stamp commemorates the Goa Liberation Golden Jubilee.

On the second cover, the block of four stamps depict images of Rashtrapati Bhavan, the official home of the President of India.

The single stamp is of the Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow, India.

Thank you to my exchange partner for these. 

A Post Card from Canada

A Post Card from Canada arrived this week as part of the Post Card Exchange on StampBoards.

The concept of the Post Card Exchange is the same as that of the Cover Exchange.

The image on the post card is from the Tulip Festival in Ottawa and as the message reads it certainly is very colorful !

The stamp is the recent Year of the Snake stamp paying the correct rate for a Post Card from Canada to Australia.

Thanks goes to my Post Card Exchange partner for the month.

If you would like more information about the Post Card Exchange or the Cover Exchange please visit StampBoards.

It's not hard to use real stamps !

It's not hard to use real stamps! Here is a parcel I received this week from South Australia. The person who sent this to me is a regular sender, but was not near his normal Post Office.

Still he made the effort to use real stamps on his parcel to me, complete with lovely hand cancels from Brighton Post Office South Australia.

It isn't that difficult and if we all made the effort our parcels and letters would look far more attractive and possibly even foster more collectors into the future.