Earlier yesterday I wrote a post about Presidential Election and how people on social media are showing their supports. If you think that the support comes only in virtual form, you are extremely wrong. It is not!
The support of using the right to vote also comes in a form of print. But this is no ordinary print. Can you guess what it is? Du du du du dum,
I am talking about stamp. Yes, stamp as in postal stamp. If you have seen my other blog, I did some posts about snailmail. Through exchanging snailmail with penpals that I 'met' from all over the world, I realize how the culture is also exposed not only through what is sent but also from the stamps used.
As you may notice in this certain stamp sheet, the theme is General Election 2014. Every month, Indonesia's postal service release one or two new sheet depending on the event. Some including traditional musical instruments, traditional food, batik, etc.
Look at how small is it! But with the tiny size, it can bring a message and spread it to all over the world. Imagine that you are sending your letter to a friend in USA, Japan, Finland, Australia, or everywhere all over the world, your penpal might be aware of the election in Indonesia. That's why, stamp is a very good outlet to also expose our culture to the world.
Now if you are familiar with philatelic hobby, it is a hobby of collecting stamps. There are lots of people out there who has this kind of hobby, you know. My aunt used to give me a bunch of old stamps she had from Taiwan (picture below). When I posted them on internet, some people actually come to me and ask if I could send them some stamps in exchange of other thing.
Since I am not actually a stamp collector or philatelist so I happily send them part of my stuff to help their collection grow. Well, I bet you guys are getting curious about how this all snailmail and penpal thingy works. But I guess, I will save it for my next post okay ;)
Cheers,
filicia
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