STORY OF A POSTCARD📮

Let's contemplate me as a Postcard, so that here I can elucidate my stories on Postcards.

Postcrossing is a forgotten art of communication. It is nothing but the sending of picture postcards to establish communication and share some moments.  It resembles crossing the nation's limits in the most least demanding manner.

This lost art is a concise form of letters but people can express their thoughts so easily with the picture of the card. It sometime describes the places, sometimes the peoples and their culture, food habits, lifestyle, festivals, folklore and so many. A tiny piece of paper has so much power to bring the emotions of the senders to its recipients. It brings immense happiness to those love ones far away and filled their face with a wide smile. Sometimes it brings a glance of a moment or the sightseer, seems like they sending a piece of joy within.                                   

Buying and writing postcards a big fun and it’s an integral part of any vacation or tour of a postcrosser. Visiting local post office also a must do thing and buying stamps add more spices into it. 

During my Nepal tour I was preparing these postcards for my postcrosser friends around the world.

I can remember that evening when I was roaming around on the streets of Kathmandu and suddenly ended up with this Postcard's Paradise. I was dazed with the widespread verity of Postcards depicting so many perspectives of Nepal. While I was writing the cards, they took me to a virtual tour of Nepal.

In this picture I'm stading in a postcard shop in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Indian letter boxes.... Different colours denote different perpous/service for sending out normal mails.

This is a Meet-Up Postcard, specially designed and printed as a memorabilia of that particular event.

Posing with a Postbox after posting a bunch of postcards during my Spain trip at Puerta del Sol,Madrid, Spain.

This is a snap of our 1st KOLKATA MEET UP team.

POLAR PHILATELY

Polar Regions – exist on the earth with full of unexplored wonders, also called the Frigid Zones of Earth are the regions of the planet that surround its Geographical Poles (The North and South Poles), lying within the Polar Circles.These high latitudes are dominated by floating sea ice covering much of the Arctic ocean in the north, and by the Antarctic ice sheet on the continent of Antarctica in the South.

This Frigid Zones fascinating peoples more than anything, reason for this is that wide expanses of the Arctic and Antarctic have not been explored and unrevealed mysteries and these facts made Polar Philately is a very popular theme or topic for many collectors. 

Since the 1930s, philatelists have gathered stamps recognizing Arctic and Antarctic research on a considerable lot of which are extremely uncommon. It’s very important to gather knowledge of the historical backdrop of Arctic and Antarctic stamps.

Here are some beauties on this topic :-

A native Polar Bear postage stamp issued by Greenland in 1915.

McDonald Islands of Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) was discovered by Captain William McDonald on 4th January, 1854 and the stamp was issued by AAT in 1957.

Arctic Exploration in 1909 issued by US Post in 1959.

Sailing Ship with Iceberg issued by Greenland Post in 1950.