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as I move through the day
for their beauty
for their joy
for their strangeness
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Kathleen Cook
In the UK, you know you’re deep in the countryside when you come across a Royal Mail post box nestling in a dry stone wall like this.
This box is from the reign of King George V (1910-36) and I spotted it, with much pleasure, in the hamlet of Treen, not far from St Ives in Cornwall.
Lovely, isn't it? And by the way, for Royal Mail aficionados the post box number is TR26 40.
Postcard collage. Made yesterday, 02/21/23. The same Poiret fashions. Apparently, he didn't like women's hair, so always had his models wear turbans.
325012, heads south at Cathiron, running Warrington Royal Mail(Dbs) to Willesden Prdc.
To me, these mail workings are always something special to see, and I'm also pleased that parcels and letters still move by rail.
Cathiron. 17-07-2020.
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I just love these miniature figurines. They are so life like. For this particular photo, I was working on the Macro Monday theme “In a Row”, and just arranged them in a way to respect the theme rules and also create a pretext to have them standing in a row. And what’s best than waiting to receive mail? Well, of course, this excludes waiting to receive bills. ;-)
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50 035 Ark Royal heading 1V48, the 20:42 Birmingham New Street - Paddington
waits at Oxford for the mail to be loaded
Another trolley load of mailbags awaits a northbound service on the far platform
You have mail, by the train load
The British Rail class 325, built by ABB at Derby Litchurch Lane Works, solely to carry for Royal Mail, a total of 16 sets were built.
Passing through Crewe, headed by 325016 with 325007 at the rear, each set is made up of 4 unconnected unmanned carriages DTVA-PMV-TAV-DTVB, each with 4 roller shutters.
I love the large round oleo buffers, reminds me of the old CIE AEC Park Royals.
The mail box is a hog. It will gobble up anything!
This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and a Kowa 1:2.8/85mm lens with a Kowa L1A ø67 filter using Fuji Reala 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Scanned lith print.
Canon EOS 30 w/ Lomography Petzval 58 mm/f1,9.
Dec 8, 2024.
Fomapan 100 shot at boxspeed and developed in Adonal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Lith printed on Fotospeed Lith FB semi-matt 8x10" and developed in Moersch Easy Lith (30A+30B+someOB+H2Oqs800).
Untoned.
Have you checked your mail inbox security lately? I'm still happy with the force field protection of my inbox ;-))
Analog Forever.
I haven't done one of these pics in a while! sent mail this past friday included;
april PIF via BIRDS for Moni,
wish package for squikyandPink via HJG group,
2x parcel of postal goodness via zines, mail art and other cool stuff group,
chirp chirp Birdies swap
and mystery pouch tage to dmarie via HJG group.
swapbot is awesome although this did cost me quite a penny to mail it is worth it!
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I spotted this neighbourhood window and the little window bouquet .... then I noticed a mail box AND a mail slot on the door. Nice to see someone anticipating snail-mail.
One of the things I love when on our country drives is the imagination some people put into the letterboxes, or mail boxes if you will. So, as with past practice we have a few to show you along the way, including some quite exotic ones. This one somewhere between Dalby and Tara is a bit of a mixed bag including what looks like a Christmas reindeer and the ubiquitous milk churn.
One of the highlights in the WW1 Museum in Kansas City, Missouri was the "Mail Call" exhibit, depicting the mail sent by artist John Ross Myers and his son Walter Myers in the Balloon Corp.
90018 leads 1S96 willesden-Shieldmuir past Wilson`s crossing, Northampton on the 29th of July. The Class 90`s having been dragging these 325 units since last week. The pigeon, however, is showing no sign of interest!
"It's the giving of a gift to another, a pair of mittens that were made by your mother, it's all the ways that we show love that feel like Christmas." Muppet Christmas Carol.
Day 106 11/27/07
No mail,,means no crappy things from courts, attorneys, or child support enforcement. I get more stuff from them than advertisements.
This is a spot-free variety of ladybug, striped with shadows from the flower stems. Most people know that ladybugs are beneficial in the garden; one ladybug can eat up to 50 harmful aphids a day.
I read somewhere that in the old days, people used to order supplies of live ladybugs by mail to protect their vegetable and rose gardens. The supplier took the requisite number of specimens, put them in a box with a large pine cone, and the ladybugs obligingly crawled into the crevices and made themselves at home for a week or two. Apparently they like this environment and find enough to eat to sustain them. The box was then shipped, without fear of damaging the insects, and when it arrived, the purchaser simply tossed the pine cone into the garden and the ladybugs crawled out and went right to work. Yet another example of pioneer ingenuity!
87024 870223 Preston 1705 GC-LE 2_edited
They may not look pretty but they were very good at what they did. Typical of early 70's loco design they were functional with MU jumpers put on the ends and a plain blue livery which did nothing but accentuate the boxy feeling to them.
Later in life differing liveries were tried, which broke up the box look and the early Executive livery is seen here at Preston on 87024 whilst working the 1705 Glasgow-Euston.
Another past feature of Railway life is shown here, the carrying of mail on scheduled passenger services and the driver looks back and waits for mails to be loaded before continuing on his way south.
23rd February 1987
More rust for Gavin!
Taken in Los Rios District, San Juan Capistrano, California. © 2012 All Rights Reserved.
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Monino, 21 August 1995.
The Beriev 12 was called Chaika (Seagull) in Russia, but NATO called it Mail. Some of these 'birds' may still be in service in 2023.