The article covers postal envelopes and hand-made ones. You should pay attention to such an everyday practice item as an envelope even if you make use of e-mail. First of all, it should be discovered what envelope is. We usually show preference to this small but roomy piece of paper in order to enclose in a letter full of feelings, thoughts, greetings and notes.

In general, envelopes are packaging products made of different material, namely paper and cardboard. By the way, you can create weird and wonderful envelopes by yourself and devote one or another well-designed envelope to your friends and family. It will surely make them happy.

Surfing the web users come across useful blogs and portals that offer a broad range of goods and services among which are sophisticated envelopes, antique postage stamps, and extraordinary answers to commonly asked questions. Anyway, seek and you shall find!

I stumbled upon several online communities that arouse my interest in bold and original solutions.

Kitschy-Koo, a collection of kitschy thrifted treasures, crafty creations, miserly mom tips, ect. What we have? An owner of this blog like magazines…better to say she adores making envelopes from color glossy pages of magazines and shows how to realize it.

Make your own envelope can help you Jox at her ‘the knitted blog’, a handmade blog all about handmade things. Handmade envelopes touch the heart. Follow her guidelines.

Another way-out is to order an envelope online according to proper sizes and styles. Loads of variants, colors and modern materials answer the purpose. [thepapermillstore]

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What can you say about Australia? A green continent populated aboriginals and kangaroo?! What else?

System. Australia’s post services offer a broad range of competitive and customer-responsive mail and speciality for all Australians. Australia Post is trading name of the Australian Postal Corporation, the government-owned postal service with a monopoly in Australia. Australia Post has established itself as the most comprehensive provider of parcels and logistics services within the Asia–Pacific region.

Over the last 15 years, Australia Post has broadened its product and service range and invested in major technology-based infrastructure programs. Today, it operates in three core areas: letters, retail and agency services, and parcels and logistics. It offers delivery services, retail products, financial services (such as bill payment and banking through its retail network), logistics and fulfilment services, and direct marketing and database management services.

History. The six self-governing Australian colonies that formed the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901 operated their own postal service and issued their own stamps. First stamps issued in 1850, Victoria (1850), Tasmania (1853), Western Australia (1854), South Australia (1855) and Queensland (1860). Under section 51 of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution 1900, “postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services” became a Commonwealth responsibility.

Postage stamps. Australian philately proper begins on 2 January 1913 with the issue of a red 1d (one penny) Kangaroo and Map, the design of which was adopted in part from the entry that won the Stamp Design Competition. This was the first definitive stamp with the sole nomenclature “Australia”.

• Australia’s first airmail-designated stamp appeared on 20 May 1929. A special 3d (three pence) airmail stamp was available for mail sent on the Perth-Adelaide air service.

• Australia’s first commemorative stamp was issued on 9 May 1927 to mark the opening of the first Parliament House in Canberra.

• The first Christmas stamp appeared on 6 November 1957. In recent years, designs for the Christmas issue have alternated each year between the religious and the secular.

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For those who never heard of such country as Kazakhstan I would like to say rather more about its location. The Republic of Kazakhstan is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of northern and central Eurasia. It is bordered by Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and China. The country also borders on a significant part of Caspian sea.

And some words on postal history of Kazakhstan. Under the Soviet Union, the Kazakh SSR postal service was an integral part of the Soviet system. The republic was periodically recognized in sets of stamps honoring the different parts of the USSR.

Stamps. Its first stamp, depicting a warrior’s suit found at the Issyk mound in 1969, was issued 23 March 1992. The first definitive stamps were a set of five issued in 24 January 1993, four of which were a stylized design consisting of a yurt and spaceship (alluding to the country’s Baikonur Cosmodrome), along with a high value of 50 rubles depicting the flag of Kazakhstan. New stamps issued in the first half of 1994 were initially sold as denominated in tijn, then later in tenge. The yurt-and-spaceship design was re-issued in the new currency beginning in July 1994.

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