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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Serendipity - Bonus Post



Thank you to everyone who sent kind thoughts on the 10th Blogiversary yesterday. Chuck sent this link to a wonderful virtual museum.

The 17th-century trunk of letters once belonged to postmasters Simon de Brienne and Marie Germain. Who were they? And what did postmasters do?


The photo above explains what I mentioned yesterday about how - prior to stamps  - people had to pay to get their mail. I'm always happy to find that something I remembered is probably correct. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. I was crazy excited about all the other things I learned about. Wow. Just wow. 

OK, enough of my mail-nerd rambling....check it out. 


Today's regular post is right below.

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