Vintage wallpaper covered with American eagles adheres to a vague postal theme.
T-shirt-clad art students shouted over a mix of vintage doo-wop and '90s alt-rock, or ducked into the covered bar area, which evoked a vaguely postal theme, its corkboard-lined walls cross-hatched with packing tape.
While it didn't exactly get 'em rolling in the aisles, the news apparently left most bloggers so incredulous that levity appeared to be the only response and, perhaps predictably, most comments had a decidedly postal theme.
David Loomes said: "A standard model will be about £6,000 and we'll be pitching it to police, security companies, postal service, theme parks, event management firms and airports".
It was then that he decided to make the postal process the theme of the cards and, in a never-to-be-repeated stroke of luck, hit upon the idea for the following year's design: sticking lots of 1-penny stamps into the shape of a Christmas tree with the circular postmarks doubling as "ornaments" and the "pot" as the address label.
A12 Islamic Stamp Campaign American Muslims are beginning a campaign to persuade people to buy the first United States stamp with an Islamic theme so that the postal service does not drop them.
The Ameripex theme days are: Presidents Day May 22, Postal Administration Day May 23, Organized Philately Day May 24, Philatelic Literature Day May 25, Postal People Day May 26, Stamp Dealers Day May 27, Thematic Collectors Day May 28, Country Collectors Day May 29, Youth Day May 30, Exhibitors Day May 31 and International Peace Day June 1.
To attempt to confirm the validity of the qualitative findings further data were collected by administering a postal questionnaire, containing questions based on the themes identified, to all mentors involved in the RCT, including those who resigned.
A number of them, including the Postal Logothete (foreign minister) Gregory, the former strategos (governor) of the Anatolic Theme Bardas and Constantine, the commander of the Excubitors guard regiment, consequently favoured the rise of Nikephoros to the imperial throne.
The display's themes are communication between the front line and the home front, and the life of postal workers during the conflict.
Though he was to become probably the most prolific designer of new postal issues, Gentleman says he wearied of being known popularly only for this area and of the limitations of theme - which was far greater in the 1960s.
