First Card Received in 2023

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Hello once again. The first card of 2023 arrived yesterday. It is card # 6564 that I have received. It arrived from Estonia and was postmarked - KAUBAMAJA  AS Eesti Post. This is the recently  ( Dec 5, 2022 ) opened new post office of the future , opened at Tallinna Kaubamaja. 

 Meelis used the 2022 Postcrossing stamp. 

Speaking of Postcrossing , I want to mention the following amazing fact. Postcrossing has reached another milestone - with 70 million postcards in the hands of postcrossers all around the world!

Postcrossing is averaging about five million postcards per year. Postcard number 70,000,000 (US-9001590) was sent by jmorris in the USA on 26 December 2022, and registered on 04 January 2023 23:36 (UTC) by BowieGirl, also in the USA! 

Sticking with Postcrossing, my next card was issued for a Postcrossing Meet-up in Taipei, Taiwan. It's a pretty nice card actually. 

Fu Fan used 3 stamps on this card. The only one I was able to find anything on was the middle one showing a lighthouse. It is from a set of 4 issued in 2010.  The left stamp is interesting , it has a lot happening on it. 

Now here's a card from Montenegro. I guess it's a home made card as the sender drew the picture on the front. And, it's not a bad train locomotive, pretty good actually. 

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Maria used a 2022 Europa stamp - from the Myths and Stories series. 

  

Time now for the last card of the day. It's a train card and I don't do many of these. This one is a highspeed ICE train in Switzerland. 

 

Laurele used 3 stamps from 2022. The left and middle stamps are Europa stamps from the Myths and Stories series. The right stamp is 1 pf 3 showing Swiss Coins. 

 So ends another update. Thanks for cards go out to Maria, Fu Fan, Laurele and Meelis. 

Take care now and come by again soon.