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21/03/2016

Postcards vs Greetings Cards

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Art, Letters, Lists, March 2016, Paywall

Indifferent Ignorance, pink post box, postcard suppliers, postcards, postcards Etsy, postcards vs greetings cards, selling stationery, snail mail, snail mail revival, snail mail revolution, stationery on Etsy
09/12/2014

Want to Send UKIP a Christmas Gift Without Crapping in an Envelope? Let Me Help You.

Snowflakes, last week I made an important discovery: UKIP has an address to which you can send mail. Unlike their now-defunct Freepost address, it’s a regular address for which you have to purchase a stamp, but they also have an email contact. As a citizen concerned at the rise of UKIP, I felt it my civic… Continue reading

Christmas, Complaints, December 2014, Fuckin’ Idiots, Indifferent Ignorance, Internet, Letters, THE WORLD *head in hands*

a letter to UKIP, Indifferent Ignorance, political parties shouldn’t always publicise their addresses, send a letter to UKIP, snail mail, the post, UKIP
02/04/2013

The Following Was Written Yesterday Before My Laptop Cut Out…

..I can’t remember how it was supposed to end. – Sometimes something is so big you don’t know what to write, so you don’t and then after a while you just want to write about something else. Especially when other people write their own pieces. One day, maybe, and in the mean time there are letters to… Continue reading

April 2103, Easter, Forgetting the end to an otherwise excellent post, Indifferent Ignorance, Internet, Jesus, Letters, Pure Insanity, THE WORLD *head in hands*, Tim Minchin

April Fool, Google, Tim Minchin

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Letters

Postcards vs Greetings Cards

Want to Send UKIP a Christmas Gift Without Crapping in an Envelope? Let Me Help You.

The Following Was Written Yesterday Before My Laptop Cut Out…