Huntür's postcard arrived...
Jul. 3rd, 2004 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe postcard I sent to Huntür from Lyon arrived today, taking 8 days for the trip. The card itself is recognizable, but it's also obvious it was "stressed" during its journey.
When I was at the post office in Lyon, I asked the clerk to affix a pretty stamp, explaining that the card was for my granddaughter. "You want something for a collector?" asked the clerk. I smiled and said yes.
The stamp she put on the card is indeed a pretty commemmorative, celebrating Bartholdi's statue of La Liberté éclairant le monde (a.k.a., Liberty Lighting The World, better known to us as the Statue of Liberty). However, I don't understand why the clerk proceeded to affix a PRIORITY tape to the stamp if it was intended for a collector.
That tape, you see, is of Scotch™ quality, meaning you can't remove it from paper without taking a layer of the paper with it. So if the stamp was intended for a collector, the damage caused by removing the tape (or the ugliness of the tape if it was left in place) would have made that collector lose interest in the stamp.
No real harm done, of course. Huntür is only 3 years old and certainly not a collector. And it's always entertaining to receive mail with unusual stamps, don't you agree?
Cheers...
P.S. BTW, the Bartholdi stamp cost €0.90, or about $1.20. From the U.S., FWIW, a postcard to France would cost 70 cents.
When I was at the post office in Lyon, I asked the clerk to affix a pretty stamp, explaining that the card was for my granddaughter. "You want something for a collector?" asked the clerk. I smiled and said yes.
The stamp she put on the card is indeed a pretty commemmorative, celebrating Bartholdi's statue of La Liberté éclairant le monde (a.k.a., Liberty Lighting The World, better known to us as the Statue of Liberty). However, I don't understand why the clerk proceeded to affix a PRIORITY tape to the stamp if it was intended for a collector.
That tape, you see, is of Scotch™ quality, meaning you can't remove it from paper without taking a layer of the paper with it. So if the stamp was intended for a collector, the damage caused by removing the tape (or the ugliness of the tape if it was left in place) would have made that collector lose interest in the stamp.
No real harm done, of course. Huntür is only 3 years old and certainly not a collector. And it's always entertaining to receive mail with unusual stamps, don't you agree?
Cheers...
P.S. BTW, the Bartholdi stamp cost €0.90, or about $1.20. From the U.S., FWIW, a postcard to France would cost 70 cents.
