The days have blended together so seamlessly that I honestly thought today was Friday until I looked at the date just a moment ago. Each day has been entirely like the one before, the only differing factor is the book I am reading and the stamps I am looking at. I have finished three full … Continue reading Daily Phuket #43: 24 April 2021 – Masked Mona
Muang Phuket Local Post
Muang Phuket Local Post New Issue: 10th Anniversary of Tsunami
The 26th of December marks ten years since since a tsunami caused by an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra devastated the region surrounding the Indian Ocean and beyond. Although local resorts and government officials like to pretend it never happened in order to not “frighten” potential tourists, remembering the terrible loss of life has … Continue reading Muang Phuket Local Post New Issue: 10th Anniversary of Tsunami
Philatelic Pursuits: November 2014
I always find myself working on my stamp collections more during the last part of the year than at any other time. 2014 has continued that trend. I don’t know if it’s because I look forward to seeing new Christmas stamps (one of my thematic collecting interests) or if it’s because I always feel relieved … Continue reading Philatelic Pursuits: November 2014
Muang Phuket Local Post: New Issue — World War I Centennial, 27 January 2014
The last Monday in January is marked as World Local Post Day, originally established in 1989 as National Local Post Day. The Local Post Collectors Society decides on a theme for local posts to design stamps around each year. The theme for 2014 is the centennial of the start of World War One. Muang Phuket Local … Continue reading Muang Phuket Local Post: New Issue — World War I Centennial, 27 January 2014
Muang Phuket Local Post: New Issue — Christmas In Thailand, 25 December 2013
Better late than never! Somewhat delayed, the inaugural Christmas release by Muang Phuket Local Post will be issued on Christmas Day itself. This will consist of six individual designs, printed in sheets of fifteen stamps with two different layouts). In addition, there is a special first day of issue handstamp and three seasonal variations of … Continue reading Muang Phuket Local Post: New Issue — Christmas In Thailand, 25 December 2013
Muang Phuket Local Post: New Issue — 180 Years of Thai-American Friendship, 11 December 2013
In 1818, a merchant ship from the very young United States of America first arrived in the ancient Kingdom of Siam in the first recorded contact between the two nations. The ship carried a letter of greeting from U.S. President James Monroe. Christian missionaries soon arrived, becoming the first Americans to settle in the … Continue reading Muang Phuket Local Post: New Issue — 180 Years of Thai-American Friendship, 11 December 2013
Muang Phuket Local Post: New Issue — Kennedy Assassination 50th Anniversary, 22 November 2013
Muang Phuket Local Post (MPLP) announces the release of a new artistamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, Texas. This single 50-satang stamp is the second in MPLP's 'Americana Series' which began with the Gettysburg Address stamp issued on Tuesday (19 November). It has been printed in imperforate sheets … Continue reading Muang Phuket Local Post: New Issue — Kennedy Assassination 50th Anniversary, 22 November 2013
The Gettysburg Address, 1863-2013
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 19, 1863 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so … Continue reading The Gettysburg Address, 1863-2013
Muang Phuket Local Post: New Issue — The Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary, 19 November
Tuesday, 19 November 2013 is the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln's famous two-minute speech given at the dedication of the National Cemetery at the famous Pennsylvania battlefield. Muang Phuket Local Post (MPLP) will join in this commemoration by issuing a single 25-satang artistamp, imperforate and ungummed, in sheets of fifteen (three rows … Continue reading Muang Phuket Local Post: New Issue — The Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary, 19 November
Postcrossing: Received Card #14
I haven't been spending much time on my stamps or postcards recently. With the end of the long rainy season, November has been a real scorcher; hot and humid is not good philatelic weather! I have also been very busy teaching -- I now have at least one two-hour lesson each and every day of … Continue reading Postcrossing: Received Card #14
Mark Joseph Jochim 