tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393704836364019515.post4071086212178573306..comments2023-05-13T22:32:14.146+10:00Comments on I love letters: Post office riddleLove from Kazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16422359607097037290noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393704836364019515.post-12156589471873848242010-10-24T07:50:26.203+11:002010-10-24T07:50:26.203+11:00When I go to the post office in town (Aberystwyth)...When I go to the post office in town (Aberystwyth), I'm always asked if I want to top up my mobile 'phone or get insurance or other things. I just say no thanks, just stamps. They're a bank as well, but I'd never bank with them as the queue is often out the door. Mind you, they do sell lots of packaging materials and some writing paper etc. So it's not all bad!Eunicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16726948637452678205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393704836364019515.post-32165182695228921022010-10-23T04:18:02.914+11:002010-10-23T04:18:02.914+11:00we don't have the sme kind of shops as you des...we don't have the sme kind of shops as you describe in Spain but having traveling in Europe I know what you mean. Not carrying all kinds ofstamps! anathema! I hope they still carry the stamps for within country mail service????viridianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07938256248645774087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393704836364019515.post-28105894277911394742010-10-22T11:35:41.514+11:002010-10-22T11:35:41.514+11:00Our US post offices sell some mailing boxes and th...Our US post offices sell some mailing boxes and things but it is pretty much all limited to mail as far as I can tell. At my PO I seem to get a very warm reception and lots of help with postage and stamps from the clerks. They seem to enjoy helping with my mail art. (And my letter carrier sure notices and comments on what I receive). With all the stamps I have been buying and postage I'm Cappuccinoandartjournal.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11241197153708410602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393704836364019515.post-87977672138716736802010-10-22T11:03:24.910+11:002010-10-22T11:03:24.910+11:00I live in a small town of 1000 people and have use...I live in a small town of 1000 people and have used the local Post Office since I was a child (except for when I moved away for a few years). It has been a constant in my life as a letter writer. I used to walk into the very same post office when I was 10 years old to send a letter to my Aussie penpal. Now, 30 years later, I just mailed a letter to you, Kaz! <br />Julie in rural Canada<br />Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09144122216662029672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393704836364019515.post-87570854214485866652010-10-22T04:44:26.306+11:002010-10-22T04:44:26.306+11:00In Spain you can buy stamps both in Post Offices a...In Spain you can buy stamps both in Post Offices and at a kind of shop that, unfortunately, have no translation in English. The most similar term is "tobacconist's", but in Spanish "estancos" you still can buy, besides stamps, tobacco, bus and subway passes, postcards... and some other stuff like pens, lighters...<br />The point is that lately I tried to buy stamps to Penpalling and Lettershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00556668374404339535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393704836364019515.post-60760325816410088592010-10-22T01:08:50.161+11:002010-10-22T01:08:50.161+11:00I live in a very rural part of Texas in the US, an...I live in a very rural part of Texas in the US, and live halfway between the two nearest towns, so I visit two different post offices. Mail is the only service offered here, except at tax time, when tax forms are available. For a while, the post office offered a lot of stamp related gift items, but I haven't seen anything lately.<br /><br />When I first started writing letters again, and Mike Szwarchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15039971041202098424noreply@blogger.com