My Postcard and Cover Blog

On 17 July 1866, General Henri Dufour, Federal Councillor Jakob Dubs and other prominent figures met in Bern with the goal of founding the ...

Nancy is the capital of the north-eastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. The metropolitan area of Nancy had a population of 410,5...

Wishing you all a Happy Easter! Or as in german: Frohe Ostern! Stamp: Cartoons by Peter Gaymann (from a set of two) - Iss...

Today I also received my first card from Macedonia. Officially the Republic of Macedonia is a country located in the central Balkan peninsu...

The University of Texas at Austin  is a public research university and the flagship institution of The University of Texas System. Founded ...

Some days ago, I received this nice cover from Luxemburg. Luxemburg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in w...

The Imperial Abbey of Corvey or Princely Abbey of Corvey (German: Stift Corvey or Fürstabtei Corvey) was a Benedictine abbey on the River W...

Ufa (Russian: Уфа́) is the capital city of the Republic of Bashkortostan , Russia, and the industrial, economic, scientific and cultural ce...

Düren is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany, between Aachen and Cologne on the river Rur.  As in 2014 in population of the city was...

I received this self-made cover from Greenland today. Uummannaq is a town in the Qaasuitsup municipality, in northwestern Greenland. With 1...

Today, I also received this nice FDC from Canada. The Year of the Monkey begins on February 8, 2016 and ends on January 27, 2017. Brillianc...

Today I received a nice card from Malta . Malta is a Southern European island country comprising an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. I...

This time I would like to show an old cover, which I got in my collection. Its from the Expo 2000 . The Expo 2000 was a World's Fair he...

Today I received another Leap Year cover , this time from Canada. It was posted on 29th February in Carlisle, Ontario. Many thanks to Brend...

A leap year (also known as an intercalary year or a bissextile year) is a year containing one additional day (or, in the case of lunisolar ...

Today I received this great card from Greenland. It shows the greenland flag. The flag of Greenland was designed by Greenland native Thue C...

Martin Luther (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, former monk and a seminal figure ...

112 is the common emergency telephone number that can be dialed free of charge from most mobile telephones and, in some countries, fixed te...

Ernst Amandus Theodor Litfaß (11 February 1816 – 27 December 1874) was a German printer and publisher. He invented the free-standing cylind...

" Little Red Riding Hood ", or "Little Red Ridinghood", also known as "Little Red Cap" or simply "Red Ri...

Bangkok is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres (605.7 sq mi) in the Chao Phraya Riv...

Yesterday I received my first card from Sri Lanka. Officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and known from the beginning o...

Reno is a city in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is located in the Northern portion of the state, approximately 36 miles (58 km) from Lake Ta...

The Republic of Bashkortostan (Russian: Респу́блика Башкортоста́н) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). It is located between the V...

Today I received a nice cover from Indonesia. Indonesia is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. It is the largest isla...

Akademgorodok (Russian: Академгородо́к; Academic Town) is a part of the Sovetsky District of the city of Novosibirsk , Russia, located 30 k...