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Scribbling Glue
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Cut, paste, and scribble.
Mail art & creative dabbling.
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Sending out love and thanks!

#writemoreletters
#sentmoremail
#USPSForever
#handmadecard
#snailmail
A handmade card featuring a small conical tree made out of a folded page of a dictionary. Two paper hearts decorate the tree, which has a trunk made out of patterned red and white paper. The same patterned paper also forms starburst lines coming off of the top of the tree. The card rests on top of a white envelope adorned with a USPS Forever stamp showing a purple-hued image of the sun coronal hole from the "Sun Science" series.
January 12, 2026 at 3:04 AM
scribblingglue.bsky.social
If you like your mail slightly nightmarish, please enjoy this vintage inspiration.

#snailmail
#mailart
#envelopeart
publicdomainrev.bsky.social The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 10d
Wonderful sketch of “teeth painlessly extracted by steam power” adorning an envelope addressed to a certain Dr J. Chapman of Totton, Southampton, and dated 1894. Was it sent in the mail like this? publicdomainreview.org/collection/s...
January 10, 2026 at 11:52 PM
scribblingglue.bsky.social
If you need a same-day postmark from USPS, make sure you visit the counter and request a manual postmark!

#snailmail
#uspsforever
#sendmoremail
An infographic sharing information about the USPS postmark change effective December 24, 2025. It explains that mail dropped into a USPS collection box used to be postmarked the day it was collected (i.e., same day as drop-off as long as you were ahead of the posted collection time). However, as of December 24, 2025, mail dropped into USPS collection boxes will be postmarked on the day that items are PROCESSED, which will generally mean 1-2 days after drop-off. If you need same-day postmark, you now need to go to the service counter in a post office and request a manual postmark. This is especially critical for items with a "mail by" deadline, such as tax returns and mail-in ballots.
January 7, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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theletterspage.bsky.social
Here at The Letters Page, we may be slightly biased in favour of any form of letter-writing... 😏 Click below to discover why we are firmly in support of Christmas cards.

theletters.page/2025/12/22/i...
In Support of Christmas Cards
At The Letters Page, we believe that Christmas cards are so much more than sentiment: they are imbued with meaning through their simple physicality and personal touches. We think that the impersona…
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December 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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librarycongress.bsky.social
On this National Christmas Card Day we are pleased to share, from the Library's special collections, a copy of the first commercial Christmas card. It's from 1843, the same year “A Christmas Carol" was published. Both helped establish the Victorian concept of Christmas. blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/12/...
A copy of the first commercial Christmas card from 1843 from the Library of Congress. Chromolithograph illustration depicts three generations of a family celebrating with food and drink, along with panels illustrating Christian charity. The message: “A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You.”
December 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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2house2fly.bsky.social
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
scribblingglue.bsky.social
Rawr!

#snailmail
#writemoreletters
#sendmoremail
#envelopeart
#USPSforever
A brown craft paper envelope featuring a USPS Forever Message Monsters stamp. The monster on the stamp has four arms, a multi-color striped body, and is wearing a hat on one of its horns. A hand-drawn version of the monster is positioned next to the address, which is redacted for privacy purposes.
December 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
It's important to write hand-written letters to your friends when you need to send them something. Ideally while doing a bit. Maybe you're a union soldier, separated from your ladylove. Maybe a hot air balloon operator.

We mustn't let the realities of today restrain the nonsense within us.
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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worldbollardassoc.bsky.social
Postbox bollards outside the Post Office. Absolutely delightful.
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
A row of postbox painted bollards in front of a post office.
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
scribblingglue.bsky.social
If you have one minute, enjoy a wonder from the Smithsonian National Postal Museum!

#postalhistory
#USPSforever

postalmuseum.si.edu/one-minute-w...
One Minute Wonders
Open daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Open Thanksgiving Day Closed December 25 Open January 1
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November 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
scribblingglue.bsky.social
Through sun, rain, and flowers, season after season USPS continues to deliver!

#outgoingmail
#writemoreletters
#sendmoremail
#mailart
#envelopeart
A cream-colored envelope features a "250 Years of Delivering" USPS Forever stamp. A hand-drawn scene depicts a shining sun in the top right corner, several clouds across the top of the envelope, and raindrops falling down the left side of the envelope onto a single blooming flower, a few tufts of grass, and a small puddle.
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
scribblingglue.bsky.social
A keepsake game with an epistolary theme! 😍

If writing a postcard about your trip to an imaginary town sounds like your cup of tea, take a look at this very cool creative collaboration.

#keepsakegame
#epistolary
#postcard
#writemoreletters
#sendmoremail
florencesn.bsky.social Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · Oct 24
I ran a session on PCG for keepsake games at Dagstuhl earlier this year, and as part of that @junevamp.bsky.social, @dipikarajesh.bsky.social, @mtrc.bsky.social and I made our own keepsake game, A Sending!

You can download it for free on itch: florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/a-sending
A Sending by Florence Smith Nicholls
Send it to someone who needs a holiday
florencesmithnicholls.itch.io
October 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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racketmn.com
"Mail art was part of the nascent boom in zine culture," local mail artist Musicmaster says. "It predates punk."
Correspondence Artists Celebrate 'Decades of Mailing It In' at Squirrel Haus Arts - Racket
'Mail art is a utopian practice—it’s people participating, cooperating, and exchanging without worrying about money.'
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October 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
scribblingglue.bsky.social
A postcard from @micheleobrienart.bsky.social always brightens the mailbox!

#mailart
#postcard
#collageart
#snailmail
#sendmoremail
A colorful postcard collage created by Michele O'Brien. It features geometric shapes with different patterns in gently-saturated primary colors.
October 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
scribblingglue.bsky.social
Swimming? Jumping? Flying? One way or another, it’s on its way!

#outgoingmail
#writemoreletters
#sendmoremail
#USPSForever
#snailmail
#mailart
#envelopeart
#cutandpaste
#collageart
On a cream colored envelope, two gold and blue fish are collaged next to and above the recipient’s redacted address, which floats above a green, gold, and black wave-scape. Cut and pasted text reads “love has been poured into our hearts/hope and joy, we thank you.” A USPS stamp depicting magnified pink moss leaves is in the top right corner.
October 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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lindsaylusby.bsky.social
I’m super psyched for this new publication that is an online mag AND a literal vending machine that dispenses awesome zines made by real artists. If you’re in the Indianapolis area, you can visit one of the actual zine machines at Tomorrow Bookstore. (I really wish I lived closer 😭)
zinemachine.bsky.social Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · Sep 27
✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Lindsay Lusby is a poet, editor, writing coach, letterpress printer, and graphic designer who loves to experiment with all forms of art at the intersection of text and image. Don’t miss her zine, “A Brief History of Perfect Happiness,” in our Summer ‘25 Edit!
Lindsay Lusby ZINE MACHINE *art by real humans
September 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
scribblingglue.bsky.social
I'm here for this celebration! Would you like a postcard? Let me know by 9/27 and I'll send one your way.

#postcard
#sendmoremail

worldpostcardday.com
World Postcard Day (October 1st)
World Postcard Day (October 1st) - Celebrate the postcard day by sending a postcard to someone!
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September 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
scribblingglue.bsky.social
This snippet of poetry seemed the perfect verse for a card carrying happy wishes to a newly-announced mother-to-be!

#writemoreletters
#sendmoremail
#outgoingmail
#mailart
#cutandpaste
#collageart
A black and white photo of a baby is adorned with a collaged party hat and surrounded by an asymmetrical paper frame. The embellishments feature of a variety of patterns in predominantly green, peach, and cream. A verse from the poem "Maternity" by Dorothy Kelley Aldis reads: "Why, when I was told the news, / I felt wings upon my shoes / And gallivanted down the street / Wanting to be indiscreet / And shout to all the world that I / Was about to multiply."
September 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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gingertotty.bsky.social
Letter to mah BOO, both sides… #ghostly #spooky #art #bsnm #pebbleart

This lil spook is off to post a letter to their Boo. Cos this love it SPIRIT-ual…
September 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
scribblingglue.bsky.social
Handwriting samples across the ages! Which eras can you decipher?
#handwriting
#cursive
#penmenship
publicdomainrev.bsky.social The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · Sep 9
Fifteenth-century handwriting as seen in The History of Ink (1860), a book including beautiful samples of penmanship from 1500 BC to 1834 AD: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-history-of-ink-including-its-etymology-chemistry-and-bibliography-1860
September 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
September 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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jembenson.bsky.social
This postbox, in Amsterdam’s Central station, can’t quite remember why it’s holding up a blank sign over its head. Maybe it was protesting (‘what do we want? More letters!’) Or perhaps it was part of the station’s signalling. It was a long time ago. It sighs wearily, & feels old.
#PostboxSaturday 🇳🇱
An stocky red postbox on a large base and with a large, blank sign sticking up from its top, set against a brick wall on the platform of Amsterdam’s Central station. The word ‘Brievenbus’ (‘postbox’) is written in white capital letters at the top.
August 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
scribblingglue.bsky.social
Who better to convey the message "Congratulations on your graduation!" than an impressed dinosaur?

#outgoingmail
#writemoreletters
#sendmoremail
#cutandpaste
#collageart
In this collage, a speech bubble that says "wow" floats above a small raptor that stands against a background of multi-colored strips of paper featuring a variety of patterns. The general vibe is bright and cheerful.
August 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
scribblingglue.bsky.social
Walking the walk – mailbox, here I come!

#writemoreletters
#sendmoremail
#outgoingmail
#USPSForever
#snailmail
#mailart
#envelopeart
A white rectangular #10 envelope on a wooden surface. The envelope features a USPS Forever Strega Nona stamp in the top right corner. A collaged pair of feet clad in white high-heeled boots walks on a drawing of a cobble stone path located above the address area. The address is redacted, save for the first letter of the addressee's name: J.
August 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
scribblingglue.bsky.social
Thanks to @tammy999.bsky.social for hosting the Index Card a Day art exploration! It was a joy to participate.
#icad2025
#dyicad2025
#cutandpaste
#watercolor
#collageart
#indexcardart
#tinyart
A selection of 18 pieces of index card art. Many are collages, several are watercolors, and a couple are marker sketches depicting a wide variety of subjects. Most were inspired by prompts from the #icad2025 #dyicad2025 Index Card a Day art challenge.
August 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM