A joint collaboration between TRAVELS OF ADAM and MYPOSTCARD.COM;
check out this series of fun illustrations about the weird history of the postal system
Hello <<First Name>>,
Sending mail and postcards when we travel is a popular tradition. That's why I partnered with MyPostcard.com this year. With just a few clicks, you can send mail from anywhere in the world to just about anywhere in return using the MyPostcard app.
As part of my collaboration, I worked with the MyPostcard.com team to come up with some fun facts about sending mail (with quirky illustrations, too!). Did you know cats were once used as letter carriers? Or that there's an underground cave where priceless postal artifacts are stored?
If you're interested in sharing on social media or reposting for your media outlet, please let me know!
Thank you,
Adam
July 2018 – Here’s a little secret. I’m kind of obsessed with sending mail. I’m not always good at—I’ve missed a lot of holidays when I could’ve sent greeting cards. But when I remember, I love sending mail home to my family, or to my friends abroad—or even when I’m abroad and want to send a postcard!
When I was a kid (and a super dork), I used to imagine building intricate postal systems and post offices. I’d sketch out bizarre and weird post offices on graph paper, pretending to be some sort of magician-architect responsible for connecting mail from a sender to a receiver. I’d sketch out an entire mail system and imagine all the crazy ways to send mail from one person to another.
Eventually I grew out of it, but that passion for the post stayed. I’ve tried to mail crazy things in the past—a piece of an old Converse shoe and even an autumn leaf that I pressed between two pieces of clear packing tape (with a postage stamp on the back). It was simultaneously fun to see what weird things I might be able to get through the mail, and also fun to get a response back from a friend when they received something outrageous from me.
Our international mail systems are so intertwined into our culture and our life, but still sort of hidden from reality. We don’t really see how mail gets from one place to another, or know how it all works. It’s that mystery that I love.
