Postal Guest - Gabriella Dallagnol Brazil

Hey everyone, how is it going?

Today's guest is my blogger pal Gabi, she's been writing  letters for many years and runs a very nice letters exchange club on her blog, Clube das cartas :)

1-Talk a little about yourself .

    Fale um pouco mais mais sobre você.

 My name is Gabriela Dallagnol, I'm 29, I live in Florianópolis/SC, and I'm a desntist. I love the beach, travelling, read and the quiety of my house!

 Meu nome é Gabriela Dallagnol, tenho 29 anos, moro em Florianópolis/SC e sou dentista. Amo praia, viajar, ler e o sossego da minha casa!

2-When, and how you got into snail mail?

   Quando e como você começou a se interessar por correio tradicional?

I started exchanging letters in 1998 with my paternal grandfather. He always wrote letters to my mom,but she would never answer him back with another letter, but by the telephone. He didn't like it! Then I decided to write to him, and with time I started enjoying it alot, and get new addresses to send letters.

Comecei trocando cartas em 1998 com meu avô paterno. Ele sempre escrevia cartas para minha mãe, mas ela nunca respondia através de outra carta, e sim por telefone, e ele não gostava! Aí resolvi eu começar a escrever cartinhas pra ele, e com o tempo comecei a gostar muito, e pegar novos endereços para ter mais correspondentes. 

3- What do you enjoy the most about snail mail and what do you dislike the most?
   O que você mais gosta sobre correio tradicional e o que você menos gosta?

What I like about exchanging letters is get to know the person first by her interior self, what she really is, without the initial judgment that usually we have when we meet someone in person. What I dislike is to see many people that don't love it and understand what really exchange letters means, and they want to participate only to receive gifts and not to make a true friendship.

O que mais gosto sobre trocar cartas é conhecer primeiramente a pessoa pelo seu interior, o que ela realmente é, sem o julgamento inicial que geralmente temos ao conhecer alguém pessoalmente. O que eu menos gosto sobre trocar cartas é ver que muitas pessoas não amam isso e não entendem o real significado de trocar cartas, e querem participar simplesmente para receber mimos, presentes e não para concretizar uma amizade verdadeira. 

4- Would you change or improve something in your country’s postal service?

   Você mudaria ou melhoraria algo no serviço postal do seu país ?

Yes! If I could I would make the fees not go up more, every year it increases the prices to send a letter, and soon it will make people stop this habit 'cause it will become impossible to do.

Sim! Se eu pudesse faria com que as tarifas não subissem mais, pois cada ano aumenta o valor do envio das cartas, e daqui a pouco as pessoas terão que parar esse hábito por estar inviável para todos. 

5- Could you tell one of the most memorable or special things you received so far?

    Você poderia dizer uma das coisas mais memoraveis ou especiais que você já recebeu?

One of the most special things I received was a Deco tape that my sister created, and sent to some of my friends to decorate it and when completed, it was sent to me. It was a surprise deco, and I wasn't even expecting, 'cause my sister and those friends don't make part of this snail mail environment, the letter world :)

Uma das coisas mais especiais que recebi foi um Deco que minha irmã criou,e enviou para umas amigas minhas decorarem, e quando completo, foi enviado para mim. Foi um deco surpresa,e eu nem esperava, pois minha irmã e essas amigas não participam desse meio postal, o Mundo das Cartas :)

6 -Can you describe in one word the feeling of receiving mail?

    Você consegue descrever em uma palavra o sentimento de receber uma correspondência?

Euphoria! haha

EUFORIA! HAHAHAHA

Thank you very much Gabi :)

Muito obrigada Gabi :)

To subscribe to Mundo das Cartas letter club click here and to keep on following Gabi check her Blog and Instagram :)

Para participar no clube de Cartas mundo das cartas click aqui e para continuar acompanhando a Gabi é só dar uma olhada no Blog e Instagram dela :)

Postal guest

Hi everyone, how are you doing?

Today my postal guest is the very creative Prem from LA :) Do you wanna know her thoughts about snail mail? Keep on reading

Hoje minha convidada é a muito criativa Prem de Los Angeles. Você quer saber mais sobre suas ideias sobre correio tradicional ? Então continue lendo :)

1-Talk a little about yourself .

    Fale um pouco mais mais sobre você.

Hi Virna, I am Prem, my name in Sanskrit means “love” and was given to me by my spiritual teacher many years back. It usually is a man’s name in India, but I like it anyway. It dosen’t matter especially with it having a beautiful meaning, well, who will care? Not me. I live in one of the cities of Los Angeles in Southern California. 

Olá Virna, Eu sou a Prem, meu nome em Sanskrit significa "amor e me foi dado pelo meu professor espiritual muitos anos atras. Geralmente é um nome masculino na Índia, mas eu gosto de qualquer forma. Não importa, especialmente se tiver um significado bonito, bem , quem vai ligar? Eu não. Moro em uma das cidades de Los Angeles no sul da califórnia. 

2-when, and how you got into snail mail?

   Quando e como você começou a se interessar por correio tradicional?

I have been collecting postcards since 2004 when one of my Dutch friends gave me sets of Van Gogh and Tulip postcards. I have been doing post crossing for many years now but I stopped my activities from their official website a few months after I found Instagram to be full of same minded people.

Eu tenho colecionado cartões postais desde 2004 quando um de maus amigos alemães me deu um kit de carões postais do Van Gogh e Tulipas. Eu tenho participado do postcrossing por muitos anos mais parei com minhas atividades oficias do site alguns meses atrás depois que eu descobri que o Instagran está cheio de pessoas igualmente com a mesma iniciativa.

3- what do you enjoy the most about snail mail and what you dislike the most?

     O que você mais gosta sobre correio tradicional e o que você menos gosta?

I like snail mail just the way it is. Nothing to dislike unless you have a lot of expectations, which I don’t have that much. I just let everything be.

Eu gosto de correio tradicional simplesmente do jeito que é. Nada para não gostar,amenos que você tenha muitas expectativas,  que eu não tenho muito. Apenas deixo as coisas serem como são.

4- would you change or improve something in your country’s postal service?

    Você mudaria ou melhoraria algo no serviço postal do seu país ?

Postal service in my area is doing great. The only thing I wish is that facility workers won’t scribble on stamps as a way of cancelling them. It pains me so much when I get a scribbled stamp. It ruins the purpose of putting on matching or beautiful stamps on your mail.

O serviço postal na minha área esta indo bem. A unica coisa que eu queria era que os funcionários não riscassem os selos como forma de cancela los . Me doí muito quando recebo selos rabiscados. Isso arruína o proposito de colocar selos bonitos ou que combinem na sua correspondência.

5- could you tell one of the most memorable or special things you received so far?

    Você poderia dizer uma das coisas mais memoraveis ou especiais que você já recebeu?

Every mail I get is special especially if I know that it’s been made and packaged with care and love. 

Toda correspondência que eu recebo é especial, especialmente se foi feito e embalado com carinho e amor.

A little part of Prem's postcard collection :)
Uma parte da coleção de cartões postais da Prem 

6 -can you describe in one word the feeling of receiving mail?

    Você consegue descrever em uma palavra o sentimento de receber uma correspondência?

Happy. It’s called a happy mail for a reason after all.

Feliz. é chamado de correio feliz por uma razão afinal.

Thank you so much Prem to share your words with us :) Dont forget to check Prem's blog and Instagram :) :) 

Muito obrigada prem por compartilhar suas palavras conosco . Não se esqueça de checar o blog e Instagram da Prem :) :) 

Love, Vi :)

The pictures illustrating this post belong to Prem, don't forget to ask the due permission and  give credits before sharing :)

As Fotos que ilustram esse post perecem a Prem, não se esqueça de pedir a devida permissão e dê os créditos antes de compartilhar :)

Postal Guest : Margaret Haas - Los Angeles

Hello beautiful souls :)

Today's guest it's the wonderful and talent Margaret  Haas.  She writes on her blog called paper pasties  and run a stationery business that offers incredible well made and cute stuff. Today she talks  about her love for snail mail :)

A convidada de hoje e a incrível Margaret Haaas. Ela escreve em seu blog Par Pastries e tem um pequeno negocio de artigos de papelaria que oferece coisas incríveis e bem feitas. Hoje ela nos conta sobre seu amor por correio tradicional :)

Talk a little about yourself

Fale um pouco mais sobre você.

Hi, I’m Margaret Haas. I live in Los Angeles and I run a small stationery business called Paper Pastries. We offer stationery, invitations, greeting cards, custom design, calligraphy, and rubber stamps. The business name came from my two favorite things. I have a fine art degree with a focus in photography. I’m married and I have two cats.

Olá, eu sou a Margaret Haaas. Eu moro em Los Angeles, e tenho uma pequeno negócio de papelaria chamada Paper Pastries (Doces de Papel). Nós oferecemos artigos de papelaria, convites, cartões, designs personalizados, caligrafia e carimbos de borracha. O nome da empresa vem de minhas duas coisas favoritas: papel e doces. Sou formada em belas artes com foco em fotografia. Sou casada e tenho dois gatos.

When, and how you got into snail mail?

Quando e como você se interessou por correio tradicional?

I’ve always loved mail and packages. I really got into it when my older sister went away to college and we kept in touch via the post. We are five years apart but best friends and it crushed me when she left. Keeping in touch via the mail was fun. Even though now we live in the same city, and see each other on a weekly basis, we still send each other mail.

Eu sempre gostei de correspondência e embalagens. Eu comecei a realmente me interessar em correspondência quando minha irmã mais velha se mudou para a universidade e mantivemos contato através dos correios.  Temos cinco anos de diferença mas somos melhores amigas e foi um baque quando ela se mudou. Manter contato através de correspondência foi divertido. E mesmo hoje em dia morando na mesma cidade e nos vendo toda semana, ainda mandamos correspondências uma para a outra.

What you enjoy the most about snail mail and what you dislike the most?

O que você mais gosta a respeito de correio tradicional, e o que você menos gosta?

I love the snail mail community. I’ve met some great friends through instagram, tumblr, flickr, and blogging- all related to snail mail. I run a monthly pen pal club with my friend Victoria. We just started a new blog post revolving around snail mail and the post. Check out our first post here.

 I dislike when people (who aren’t into snail mail) say annoying things like “Haven’t you heard of email?”

Eu amo a comunidade dos correio tradicional. Eu conheci pessoas incríveis através do Instragran, Flickr e blogando, tudo relacionado a correio tradicional. Eu tenho um clube de cartas mensal com minha amiga Victoria. Começamos um novo post no blog sobre correio tradicional e correios. Dê uma conferida em nosso primeiro post aqui.

Eu não gosto quando pessoas (que não se interessam por correio tradicional) dizem coisas como: “Você nunca ouviu falar de e- mail?”

Would you change or improve something in your country’s postal service?

Você mudaria ou melhoraria algo no serviço postal do seu país?

Most times when I go into a post office, the workers are irritable and seem a bit annoyed that I am mailing something. I wish they were champions of keeping the post office alive instead of killing it slowly.

Na maioria das vezes, quando eu vou para os correios, os funcionários são irritadiços e parecem um pouco irritados por eu estar enviando algo. Gostaria que eles fossem os campeões em manter o correio vivo em vez de matar-lo devagar.

Could you tell one of the most memorable or special things you received so far?

Poderia nos dizer uma das coisas mais memoráveis ou especiais que você já recebeu até então?

The best letter I’ve ever received is the one I’m currently reading. Every piece is so special, I don’t like to compare it to anything else. I adore each one of my pen pals because they are so different.

As melhores cartas que eu já recebi, são as que eu esteja lendo . Cada pedaço é muito especial. Eu não gosto de comparar com mais nada. Eu adoro cada uma das minhas pen pals, porque são todas diferentes.

Can you describe in one word the feeling of receiving mail?

Você pode descrever em uma palavra o sentimento de receber uma correspondência?

Delightful

Prazeroso

Where do you keep or store your mail?

Onde você guarda ou armazena suas correspondências?

In my writing desk. When the drawer gets too full, I package it up in a box and keep it in my mother’s attic.

Na minha escrivaninha. Quando a gaveta fica muito cheia eu embalo, coloco em uma caixa e guardo no sótão da minha mãe.

Here some of the amazing things you can purchase from Margaret's shop.

Alguas das coisas inciriveis que você pode comprar na loja da Margaret.  

Thanks for share your love for snail mail with us margaret :)

Don't forget to check out Margaret's :

Blog

Shop

Instagram

Obrigada por compartilhar seu amor por correio tradicional Margaret.

Não se esqueça de checar os links da Margaret :

Blog

Loja

Instagram

Much Love Vi :) 

Postal Guest : Bruno Souza - Brazil

Oi Pessoal, tudo bom?

Today My guest is my postcard swap mate Bruno Souza, he happens to also be my fellow countryman :) And he have a collection of 640 postcards, check out

1-Talk a little about yourself ( your name,who are you, where you live, what you do etc)

        My name is Bruno Souza Vasconcelos, 15 years old. I live in Uberlândia, a city with 700.000 inhabitants, inside of Minas Gerais – one of the Brazilian states.  I’m a very shy boy, determined and dreamer. I like sleeping and eating, yes, I think they are basics actions, but I like sleeping a lot and eat different kinds of foods.

2- When, and how you got into snail mail?

 I started to collect postcards about 3 years ago with an advice of my English teacher. Now, I have 640 postcards by curiosity.

3- What you enjoy the most about snail mail and what you dislike the most?

      

         In snail mail I like to meet new things, new people and new cultures. I dislike when I receive many postcards from the same country, because I’d like to receive postcards from all countries. But I like it all without parciality.

    4- Would you change or improve something in your country’s postal service?

 I’d change the time of delivery service and values of postages.

5- Could you tell one of the most memorable or special things you received so far?

       

      One day I received a package with 25 coins and 12 postcards. I loved this envelope.  And the  other day I received a package with many things about my birthday. I appreciated this too :D

6 -Can you describe in one word the feeling of receiving mail?

     
     Surprise.  

Thanks for your words Bruno :) If you wanna keep on track of Bruno's growing collection or see more of it, don't forget to follow him on instagram. 

Muito Amor

   Vi :)    

Postal Guest - Raquel

Hola mis amigos

Today I bring to you a new Guest, Raquel from Stockholm. She has a wonderful nail art, ( which made hard for me the task of choosing the pics for this post...haha) And I hope you can get inspired from her too :)

1-Talk a little about yourself ( or name,who are you, where you live, what you do etc)

My name is Raquel and my Instagram name is marionbcn. I am originally from Barcelona in Spain, and moved to Sweden back in 2007, I live in the capital of Sweden, Stockholm. I am 36 years old, born august 1978, and im married to kenneth whom  I have been together for 8 years now.

I work as a front desk agent in a boutique hotel in Stockholm. I have a lovely 6 years old kitty named Juno, and I love to go swimming.

Had to put a pic of Juno because, look at this cutie,such a model *--*

 2-when, and how you got into snail mail?

I started writing my first letters back in 1988, my first penpal was a danish girl I met on a holiday in a camping in a town called Palamós in the Costa Brava in Spain. The next summer I met some spanish girls at the same camping and they also became my penpals, you know, back then the internet didnt exist so we could not email eachother!

In 1992 I started looking for penpals actively thru music magazines such as super pop, smash hits or Kerrang!, soon I had about 10 regular penpals who i wrote to in catalan ( my mother tongue), spanish or english. I also strated swapping Fb's (friendship books) and met a bunch of foreign penpals that way.

After FB'S i also started swapping Slams and Decos.

There's few girls and a guy I have been writting with for nearly 20 years, and have met a lot of my penpals in real life during trips, or just had them over visiting. Always had awesome experiences meeting my penpals.

3- what you enjoy the most about snail mail and what you dislike the most?

The real frienship that you develope with your penpals is one of the best things about penpalling, listening and being listened.

What I dislike the most if when people stop writting without even letting you know that they are just gonna drop you off.

4- would you change or improve something in your country’s postal service?

I am very happy with the swedish postal system thank you! the only thing I'd change is the price, its ridiculosuly expensive, but yet again everything is very expensive in Sweden.

5- could you tell one of the most memorable or special things you received so far?

Just lovely chatty letters from my pals are the best things to get really.

6 -can you describe in one word the feeling of receiving mail?

Happiness!

Thanks Raquel for share a little about yourself with us :)

Mucho Amor

Vi    

Postal Guest - Kate Klyuenkova

Zdravstvuyte moi druz'ya

 Today I'm super happy to introduce to you as my guest the gorgeous Kate. Her instagram profile was one of the first ones I started to follow when I found the pen pal community, and I fell in love for her mail art and sweet personality. I hope that, by reading her answers, you get as excited as her by snail mail :)

 Talk a little about yourself ( or name,who are you, where you live, what you do etc)

My name is Kate, I’m a Russian girl who lives in a beautiful Siberian city – BarnaulJ This year I’ll graduate the Linguistic University, where I’ve been studying for almost 5 years now. My majors are English and teaching. But frankly speaking being a teacher is not what I am dreaming of and I knew it from the very beginning, I chose that university to learn English properly so that I am actually able to communicate with the world :D which I am really happy about! I am still in search of myself and my way in life and I am quite optimistic about it, as I believe everyone was born to be happy. I live with my big family, consisting of 6 people : my parents, granny, two sweet naughty monkeys:D who are my siblings actually haha (Sophie is 7 years old and Vlad is 5) and me. We have a cat, a tortoise, a cavy and some fish as pets:D quite a lot, right?:)

At the moment I am having my second teaching practice at school. So I teach kids English for 2 months. At the same time I work in my dad’s travel agency, which we started 3 months agoJ so this time is a lot tiring and I almost have no time to be enjoying my favorite thing – snail mail.

  When, and how you got into snail mail?

Almost all my life I was unaware of the beautiful world of snail mail. I never cared for it. Till in May, 2011 my best friend told me about Postcrossing. I joined it and started sending cards to random people, it was hard to find postcards or any pretty stationery in my city, so I was actually sending my handmade cards. I also mentioned in my profile I was fond of handmade cards, I always say that handmade things have soul in them, and always more appreciatedJ In June 2011 I received my first official postcrossing card from the USA. I was running of happiness all over the place laughing and showing it to everyone:D haha! That’s how my love for snail mail began. I sent a lot! Sent a card back to everyone who sent me an official! Searched for users, interested in direct swaps! I got so obsessed :D Most of those people never sent me anything back, but I was very happy with what I received anyway J I just love that feeling of excitement when I am checking my mailbox! There’s nothing compared to that childish pure happiness, and I still have it!

So I was happily enjoying little postcard swaps and postcrossing officials until I registered on Instagram in the Autumn 2013 and found my first penfriends! That’s how I realized – I loved letters! A pretty postcard can never be compared to the feelings and thoughts your penfriend shares with you! And it’s so precious to me!

 What you enjoy the most about snail mail and what you dislike the most?

I love learning more about people abroad, love reading their stories and share mine with them too! And I love making little surprises, sending something along with the letterJ it always feels so good! and of course every time I enjoy decorating my mail, sparing time to make the mail I send beautiful J

And well what I dislike is that many people never reply my mails, or sometimes I receive totally effortless mails. And it feels like it took them not more than 15 mins to prepare the mail for me. Which, I am sure you understand, is not very pleasing. When I spend hours working on a letter, making it look nice and really care about a person, such careless replies make me feel unneeded.

  Would you change or improve something in your country’s postal service?

All I want is that every single mail I send reaches its destination and the mail, which is sent to me also reaches me. So many letters and cards get lost on the way and I am sad about it, and safety also matters a lot, I wish no mail got torn or creased, and of course time – sometimes it takes months(!) to reach the mailbox! 

 Could you tell one of the most memorable or special things you received so far?

The most special and amazing mail I have ever received was from my very dear friend. He sent me a huge poster (60x90cm) of himself (he’s a photographer and the kind of “selfie” he can take is really incredible!:D I was really crazy about that picture and he got it printed for me) so he sent it in a tube and a courier handed it right to me J and another sweet thing was that he wrote a beautiful letter on the back side of the poster, and even drew some cute cats there and decorated it so wonderfully! Can’t even describe how happy I felt to receive it! And now it’s happily posted in my room J

 Can you describe in one word the feeling of receiving mail?

There are of course so many words crossing my mind now :D And that exciting feeling of getting a mail can hardly be compared to anything else! But if I would try to put it in one word it is  INSPIRATION J

 Thank you so Kate for sharing so much with us. If you wanna know more about Kate and keep update of her outgoing and incoming mail, just follow her on Instagram.

Ps: As you can see the blog layout and design has changed. What do you think? did you like it? Ah, Now I can finally answer to your comments and I'm really looking forward to it :)

Mnogo lyubvi

Vi  <3    

Tag: Postal guest

Hola mis amigos

Today I happily introduce to you the new tag of the blog called postal guest where we're Going to have a guest answering some questions for us. And the sweet Swetha accepted to be the first one!

Talk a little about yourself 

My name is Swetha and I’m 25 years old. I was born in India, grew up in Singapore, spent five years in Qatar and have lived in Saudi Arabia for almost three years now. I usually tell everyone that this is about as exciting as it gets!

When, and how you got into snail mail?

I got into snail mail when I was really young, probably around 8 years old or so. When we lived in Singapore, I used to watch my mom write letters to my grandparents in India and thought it was really cool, so I started writing to them as well! When my grandpa passed away a few years ago, I went through his belongings and found a couple of letters that I had written to him:

One of the old letters

When I was around 10 years old, I started writing to some friends that I’d met on the internet. I only stuck through with one of them, whom I wrote to for quite a while. We’re still friends to this day, and just started exchanging mail again!

What you enjoy the most about snail mail and what you dislike the most?

I love how personal snail mail is – you learn so much about a person through their letters, and each letter that I receive inspires me in so many ways. I always look closely at their handwriting, the way they’ve constructed various crafts, and even what their letters smell like! I think snail mail allows you to make a real connection with someone that is almost as good as interacting with them in real life.

I’m sure I share this with all snail mail enthusiasts, but I hate how long it takes for mail to arrive! As soon as I mail something out, I want to know exactly what the recipient thinks about it, what they enjoyed and what they didn’t. Similarly, when someone sends me mail, I want to see it immediately! The time it takes makes this all so difficult, especially since I’m always worrying about mail getting lost along the way!

Would you change or improve something in your country’s postal service?

I think Saudi Post (or any postal service in the region, really) tends to get a bad rap from most people here, because they think that it’s not efficient or trustworthy. However, I think they’re pretty great! Their prices are reasonable and although they can be pretty slow at times, I’ve never had any mail get misplaced so far.

That said, it would be nice if they allowed decorated envelopes on outgoing mail. My envelopes always seem so boring compared to the ones that my pen pals send me, so I have to work extra hard to make the contents look good!

Could you tell one of the most memorable or special things you received so far?

This is difficult, because I’ve received so many beautiful things from everyone that I’ve exchanged mail with. One of my penpals, Sofia, is incredibly generous and sends me the most magical things, my favorite of which is a little puppy figurine made from Red Jasper. I’m always rambling to her about how much I love puppies, so this was just perfect!

Can you describe in one word the feeling of receiving mail?

Exuberating!

Thanks so much Swetha for sharing a little with us your thoughts and feelings on snail mail

You can read more from Sweat in her blog, or see more of her outgoing and incoming letters on her Instagram.

I hope you liked this new tag, new guets are coming soon!

                                                                                                                 Mucho amor

                                                                                                                        Vi <3