When we started, the Post Office sold tropical fruit postcard stamps.
Even today, foreigners are so rare that shops sell postcard stamps only for Germany.
One day, Kashua, rummaging in an old suitcase in his grandmother's closet, found a postcard stamped "Damon Prison, Haifa," and dated 1970.
Postcard stamps are a few cents less expensive than letter stamps.
For years, he sent daily telegrams to friends and associates around the world that read, "I am still alive," and mailed postcards stamped with the time he woke up.
Because the Kremlin considered the dogs ideologically safe, Turkina continues, they effectively "became the first Soviet pop stars," appearing on every product imaginable — matchboxes, razor blades, postcards, stamps, chocolates, cigarettes.
A series of postcards, stamps and postmarks was also released.
What keeps him afloat is other stuff tourists want: postcards, stamps, ChapStick, batteries, aspirin and such.
Mr. Claus is in residence throughout the holiday season at Finland's world famous Santa Claus village in Rovaniemi, where you can take a ride on a reindeer sleigh, get your postcards stamped at Santa's very own post office, watch Santa's Elves at work and even learn to bake gingerbread with Mrs. Claus.
