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  I got your card this morning,  thanks Billy. 

They deliver twice a day here in a residential neighborhood, it's no wonder the Post Office is always going broke.  Probably why they have to rip you off on the postage on non-machinable letters too.  I'll ask them about it when I post yours.  I fired up my ink pen so look out...:)

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Howdy everyone! 

things are settling in at the new place so i thought I’d pick back up with the snail mail!

this year instead of buying cards i decided to use the mountain of free ones I love received in the mail from various charities sending the stationary as “free gifts” AKA soliciting donations lol :lol:

pre warning to everyone these letters came  with quite the assortment of tacky Christmas stickers so they are decorated accordingly! :P

I hated to throw all this stationery away so I thought it’d be fun this year to use it, hope y’all don’t mind i didn’t pick up the funky funny cards this year 

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Hey Billy, Debi and I got our card last week and it came through the PO without any damage to the seal. Thanks

We haven't sent card out in a long time, just never seem to get around to it so here is what I send.

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I can't control the wind, all I can do is adjust my sail’s.~ Semper Paratus

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Deb picked up our card with the mail yesterday. It's typical Billy, the envelope is covered in stickers and more enthusiastically decorated than the card.:lol: Love your Christmas seal. Now that I've been spurred into action I have a couple cards ready to go in the mail. :)

Frosty The Lucky.

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On 12/19/2024 at 7:05 PM, PHDforge said:

abundance of stickers

:lol: lol yeah I had to do something with all that stuff! 
I wanted to order some really cool ones I found online and some others that Shaina found but I had all these regular Christmas cards and stickers to get rid of first 

I sent out a truck load of cards this year and thinned all that out, so next year I’ll order the weird cheesy ones I found! 

On 12/19/2024 at 9:55 PM, Shainarue said:

Makes the mail seem fancy

That’s what i thought!

On 12/19/2024 at 7:48 PM, Irondragon Forge ClayWorks said:

without any damage to the seal

Awesome I’m glad to hear it! 
 

Jerry 

:lol: I can fill your card up with stickers instead of the envelope next go around! 

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Filling the envelope with stickers was really amusing, the PO cancelled a sticker and left the stamp unmarked. Mine'll probably get there a little late I was out of town and didn't remember to send one from Tombstone. <sigh>

Wish I had, I would've had to get a tombstone seal and some wax. It'd be a cool souvenir, might start a collection.

Frosty The Lucky.

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It arrived! No wax this time. 

And my wife threw away the envelop, so I don't have your new adress billy.

And also I'm late with my cards this year. My child slave labour felt rebelious this year, so they made the cards wrong, it took some attemts to get it right.

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On 12/26/2024 at 10:57 AM, BillyBones said:

yours will be there soon

It made it thank you very much!!!

On 12/26/2024 at 11:15 AM, Frosty said:

might get a freebie

That would be awesome!

On 12/26/2024 at 3:01 PM, gewoon ik said:

No wax this time

Sorry I didn’t put wax seals on any of the the Christmas cards that I sent out across the pond this go around

 i was sending them so late I was afraid it might slow them down getting there on time if the postal service considered them non machinable 

but I’ll send my next round of cards earlier and with wax seals on them! 

im confused on that because the local post office told me the wax seals make letters and cards non machinable and have to be sorted out by hand but yet some of them still get put through the machines 

On 12/26/2024 at 3:01 PM, gewoon ik said:

don't have your new adress billy.

Lol I’ll send out something else so you have it! 

Rebellious Christmas card slave laborers? Did Father Christmas skip them over this year? :lol:

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The PO discourages wax seals because they CAN cause problems in the automatic sorters. Newer machines handle lumps and odd envelopes much more better so wax seals go through better. More modern sealing waxes are thinner and more flexible so PO sorters handle them better too. The PO is a typical bureaucracy and the easiest safest answer to questions they might need to look into or ask higher is, no. The less your boss or higher notices you the better.

I discovered Michaels craft (or whatever) stores carry a decent selection of sealing waxes and seals / stamps. Just don't expect the employees to know it, look in the same area as card and envelope decorations like stickers and such. Do NOT contact cement glitter on your mail!:o

Frosty The Lucky.

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