Artistamps April 2011
A brand new service from Royal Mail and Twitter was unveiled 1st April 2011 to try to boost falling mail volumes. Called Twiletter, every tweet and letter posted can be combined and sent in either of the usual ways free of charge. This service is accompanied by new special gold scale fish and Twiletter stamps. A spokeswoman from Royal Mail, Miss Penny Post, stated that this is just a trial service which only runs from midnight on April 1st 2011 until midday. Any Twiletters sent after that time will be automatically returned to sender so get your twiletters ready now.....
Friday's(1st April) artistamps and combined miniature sheet mark this very special occasion.
Saturdays's(2nd April) artistamp marks the birthday on this day back in 1805 of Hans Christian Andersen and shows a floral represenataion of one of Andersen's famous children's stories, "The Princess and The Pea." at Jesperhus Flower Park in Denmark.
A very Happy Mother's Day from Positively Postal.
Monday's(4th) artistamp shows April's birthstone and every girl's best friend, the diamond.
For Tuesday's(5th) artistamp, I made it from a piece of mailart which I sent off to Spain, entitled "Life. Be fit for it."
Artistamp for April 6th marked the hotly diputed discovery back on this day in 1909 of The North Pole by American navy engineer, Robert Peary accompanied by Matthew Henson and four Inuit men.
Artistamp for 7th April marks World Health Day highlighting antimicrobial (drug) resistance and its global spread against which the World Health Organisation(WHO) is introducing a six-point policy package to combat this.
April's flower, the sweet pea flourishes on April 8th artistamp.
