Today in Pen Pal, Em receives her first letter from Kaya

[asakiyume]

In her diary, Em writes

I got a letter! I got a letter today—it was in with a doctor bill and ads, a letter for me! And it came from a different country. The stamp has a picture of flowers and mountains.

Let's take a moment to appreciate airmail envelopes and lovely stamps:

airmail envelope

Source: here

datura on a stamp from Laos

Source: here

Indonesian stamp showing Tengger, site of four volcanoes

Source: here

And thinking of small post offices, and PO boxes . . .

postboxes in Maryland Maine [thanks for the correction, seaivy!]

Source: Going Postal blog

. . . took me to the Going Postal blog, described as "A photo journal of post offices and places." The blogger travels across America, documenting post offices large and small. Post offices are a little like libraries--special, wonderful places, so important for communities.

Comments

[duccio.livejournal.com]

That volcano stamp! And that post office in Maryland... the postmaster there surely knows everybody in town. There's one like that in Port Costa on the Sacramento River, across from Vallejo.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh, if you get a chance, I'd love to see that one in Port Costa.