stamps from Canada

Ah, the glory days of postage and stamps, exuding a whiff of adventure!

Canada still gets it right. We bought a calendar and it came with these stamps. That big one is 2-1/2 by 1-7/8 inches. I like bilingual--French and English. I guess "Canada" is the same in both. What? Did they miss translating moose? I google translated and, yes--"original." The plural of moose? Not meese. Little Switzerland crams three languages on each stamp. Looks like the bottom three are not canceled.

foreign stamp

Not often do I see an actual foreign stamp in our mailbox. Here's one. In the left corner was just "air mail." I missed the "par avion." Wiki says: French is ... traditionally the international mail language. The "avi" is the same verbal unit for aviation.

Inside was an appeal for money to help a student.

office mail

I work half-time for Harmonies www.harmonies.org. Nearly every day some mail comes. Most of it looks commercial. This envelope which came last week reminded me that once upon a time stamps ruled. You just kept adding them until they added up to the required amount. It fostered mental arithmetic, something my father excelled at and liked in his one-room school close to today's Park City.