Christmas is coming but the mail is already here!

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Christmas arrived sooner this year! :D

Thank you all for the nice covers! These are surely the best presents I'll receive.

Australia, a nice surprise for a regular group.

Brazil, for group 222 of the Philatelic RR.

Belarus, group 222.

Switzerland, a nice offer from my nice friend.

Germany, group 222.

Ireland, group 222.

Finland, group 222.

Japan, group 222.

The Netherlands, group 222.

Ukraine, group 222.

USA, group 222.



**this post will be updated when new covers arrive**

covers of the week (except Christmas covers)

First, a place where I've been, that I loved, and where I want to go back one day: Bulle, Gruyère, Switzerland. Inside the walls of this wonderful castle I eat the most delicious strawberries with Gruyère cheese and I've seen the first Bernese Mountain dog. :D

Second, a place where I'm in almost everyday: Lisbon! This awesome French minisheet shows some of the most known monuments of Lisbon. But there's much more to see here!

This FDC was sent as a gift for the First Anniversary of my Philatelic RR at Postcrossing. It was a very nice surprise! The cancelations are also very beautiful.

Another speachless cover from Australia. One of the covers that make someone collect bird stamps! :)

Brazil coming from Asia

A beautiful surprise arrived from Hong Kong. The joint issue HK-BR on football.



And it came with an extra surprise on the back. Besides the postmark of the Hong Kong post offices, it also received a postmark from the PT post offices, from a town that is not my own! :D This means this lucky guy travelled more that he should! ;)

Cover of the week

This week the prize goes to... Belarus! A nice minisheet with a special cancelation.

Beautiful cards with beautiful stamps!

I love almost all kind of nuts! It was a nice surprise to receive this "nut" card from some nuts from Netherlands! :D Too bad the stamps were not cancelled, they are so beautiful they deserved more!




Another good example from the country of tulips and windmills. The 2 donkeys are french but the lovely stamps are definitely Dutch! Another amazing official card from Postcrossing.



Another official card, now from China. The Aurora Borealis stamps are amazing!




Last but not least, an official from Belarus. Amazing stamps!

A cover with the size of a football field...

This cover is so big it deserves a post only for itself! Dankeschön Gabriela!

Mail of the week

The first to arrive was this cover with a funny stamp from Germany. I just love these airmail envelopes, too bad they aren't sold anymore here...


Then arrived this letter from France, with a new Marianne stamp I've never received before.


To end the week, a new "Paul's minisheets attack" :D with 2 more awesome covers for the Philatelic RR: