Polite Notice

Main Post Office, Kampala

Postess with the Mostess

Maybe someone will lodge a postal vote against Howard from Pai, aka Hippiesville, North Thailand.
I’ve been charged with an overdose of affection for virtual modes of communications. I’ll plead guilty if the choice is between the electronic and telephonic, favouring always an email over a coup de fil. That said, I wrote a PhD which, inter alia, defended printed books and first editions against facsimile and digital editions. Of course I’m a fan of the post! Poste Restante in Lamu was such a roaring and delightful success (thank youse all!) that I’d be foolish not to nominate a further destination. I’ll be able to pick up mail which arrives in Addis Ababa before Christmas at the following address:

Catriona Menzies-Pike
Poste Restante
Main Post Office
Churchill Road
Addis Ababa
ETHIOPIA

Post box the Second

Goodness me, another post box.

This one is from Lozzi, in Corsica.

Why take photographs of post boxes?
To use as evidence in the great showdown between the Thurn und Taxis and Trystero.

Going postal

I jinxed myself and now I’m wireless-frei in Vienna. These seem like auspicious conditions for the launch of my extremely exciting collection of photographs of post-boxes. I’ve been taking photographs of post-boxes since I left Australia and I think I am going to starting posting boxes from a new country each week until the end of the year. That there aren’t actually that many weeks until the end of the year is a bit of a shock to my system. Anyway, you can collect a new post-box every week! Thrills and spills!

Here’s a post-box from Vientiane, in Laos.

There are so many forces drawing me to photograph post-boxes. If I were to list them all now, this post would be longer than my arm. One solid pro-post-box statement per post.

1. Postcards/Cartes postales/Postkarten.
I’ve been greatly enjoying sending postcards. If you think you should have received a postcard from me and haven’t, it’s probably because I don’t have your address. Send it to me and see what happens.

I myself will be in a position to receive postcards in Lamu. If you want to send me a postcard and think that it will arrive before the end of October, address it to:
Trixie Tralala,
Poste Restante,
Lamu,
KENYA.