books giveaway projects

This year we are planning to start a project that will touch many people throughout books. the vision is   that everyone is eager to read. the mission is by giving book to read.

do you want to contribute?

it’s so simple.

Send a postcard to us, write down your 2012 wishes and the code : “BBS” on it, and Rp.2000 will be donated for buying books to be given to as many people as possible.

send your postcard to:

dr. Yoseph & Vera Ticoalu

Lorg Anggrek, L 2, Sarongsong 1, Airmadidi.

Minut, SULUT, 95371

INDONESIA

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Penny Farthing Post in UK

Unique Private Postal Service UPPS

Yoseph LS @ 070512

Business is building up for a man in North Cornwall, United Kingdom who started a new local postal delivery service – on a penny-farthing-style bike. Graham Eccles, 33, who lives in Bude, delivers letters locally for 25p on his adapted bicycle. The business idea was prompted by Royal Mail’s announcement that stamp prices were to rise.

Launched on 1 April 2012, the Penny Farthing Post is a mail service with a difference: letters around town are personally delivered by Eccles on his penny farthing bike. The stamps, designed and printed by the postman himself, cost 25p – a saving of 35p on the new first-class stamp price. From 1 May 2012 the cost of first-class stamps in UK increased from 46p to 60p and second-class stamps went up from 36p to 50p. “Royal Mail is charging far too much and I thought 25p would be perfect for the local area,” he said.

Eccles initially printed only 480 stamps. Within two days they had sold out and the local shops that act as his post offices, selling stamps

and collecting items for delivery, were clamouring for more. “At the end of my first week, I was dropping to bits. I wasn’t used to cycling 15 miles a day, and my penny farthing needed a new back wheel.” Mail is collected and delivered twice a day to Bude, Stratton and Poughill and letters picked up at the morning collection are delivered the same day.

“The reaction has been nothing but positive,” he says. “I’m now designing post boxes made from converted gas bottles – painted bright yellow to avoid confusion with the Royal Mail.” He said one of his aims was to put a post box in all the local schools to encourage children to write letters to each other, which might help to improve literacy.

Sources:

Look out, Royal Mail – it’s Penny Farthing Post! http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/shortcuts/2012/apr/22/royal-mail-penny-farthing-post

Demand soars for penny-farthing post. http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Demand-soars-penny-farthing-post/story-15978866-detail/story.html

Post delivered by penny-farthing in Bude. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17607089

http://www.facebook.com/pennyfarthingpost

http://kmlockwood.com/truth-and-tradition/

Lippe Buildings

An expired item that came late from Germany.

Polynesian Girl

From postcrosser in France.

Leiden Sheep

building china

Maxicards

What are Maxicards? These maximum cards, as they are often known, are postcards that feature an image (a monument, animal, event, etc) along with a stamp of a very similar or related image on the picture side of the card. There are actually thousands of them in circulation today, as they are regularly issued by the Post Offices themselves – with collectors paying big bucks for originals.

Maxicards have a long and storied history. The first Maxicard was mailed by a tourist in Egypt in 1893, who sent a picture postcard to a friend in Germany. The postcard depicted a pyramid and the Sphinx, and was mailed after he stamped it with a pyramid and Sphinx stamp. He accidentally placed the stamp on the view side of the postcard and thus the maximum card was born from his mistake. Whether later cards were accidents or by design, the craze took off. In 1978, the International Federation of Philately (FIP) officially recognized maximaphily as a branch of philately, basically saying that Maxicards are legitimate.

So, how can you create a Maxicard? You might purchase the postcard and related stamp, put the stamp on the image side and send it, but you have not actually created a Maxicard. Why is this? You are missing another important step that collectors look for: not only do you want the stamp and the postcard to be related, but you also want the postmark to tie in as well! Only then will you have a full-fledged maximum card. Learn more about creating a maximum card on thisMaximum Cards website.

 

Kelp Forest

Gunung Bromo dan Clurit

Postcard: Gunung Bromo – Jawa Timur. POS INDONESIA.

Stamp: Provinsi Riau. 2500.

Postmark: SURABAYA DUKUH … . 111111..

Kartu pos produksi Pos Indonesia dengan gambar pada sisi yang sama dengan kolom alamat dan tempat menempel perangko, menunjukkan Gunung Bromo, Clurit, dan motif kain, semuanya khas Jawa Timur. Bagian belakangnya yang kosong dapat memberikan ruang ekstra yang luas untuk menuliskan pesan. Perangkonya setema meskipun tidak tepat sama yaitu provinsi di Indonesia. Dikirim oleh Vicky, adik di Surabaya, pada tanggal cantik 11-11-11. Cap posnya kurang jelas.

Kiev Opera House

Postcard: Kyiv T. Shevchenko National opera house building. 1901. Architect – V. Shreter.

Stamp: Picturing ink bottle and ink-feather.

Postmark: 08091119 UKRAINE KYIV and wavy lines.

Gedung dengan arsitektur yang indah beserta poster pertunjukan teater, dengan beberapa orang berdiri di depannya. Terlipat sejak dari pak pos antar. Satu buah perangko bergambar botol tinta dengan bulu unggas untuk menulis, ditera tiga garis melengkung. Dikirim oleh anggota postcrossing dari Ukraina. Cap pos bulatnya sangat jelas.