Mailwoman Vera Kirinicheva. Photo by Aleksandr Steshanov (Moscow, 1980s).
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration, history and culture of Russia and the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 10 years old.
Mailwomen in Veshenskaya village, Rostovskaya obl. Photo by Viktor Tyomin (May 1965, USSR).
Mailman on Sakhalin. Photo by Yuri Sadovnikov (Far East Russia, 1960s).
Mail woman in the Komintern kolkhoz of Boris-Gleb village (Vladimirskaya oblast, Russia, 1952)
Russian Far North. Delivering mail on sleds (1960s).
“Snowful Winter” by Vasily Basov (1960s)
“Delivery of Letters and Newspapers” by Oleg Lomakin (1960s)
Mail lady of the village, photo by Semyon Fridlyand (1950)
Art by Igor Pchyolko (1989)
Mail Girls - art postcard by Vitaly Karkunov (1925—2006)
“Holiday greetings from Moscow!”
Does anyone collect maxicards? I have a bunch of modern maxicards in my collection (some are too pretty to pass by!), and now I also got some for my shop.
This set of 4 maxicards is about mail delivery in the Soviet Union: addressing envelopes, mail pickup, automatic sorting facilities, transportation. I particularly like the one with computers. Reminds me of Star Trek TOS for some reason!
October 9 − World Post Day
Congratulations to all postcard lovers, pen pallers, postal workers, mail artists, stamp collectors!
This day also marks the beginning of the International Letter Writing Week. I haven’t written letters for a long time, but I want to, and this is the perfect time to do it. So, I pledge to write at least one letter this week.
Who wants to join in?