** Welcome to Photography Forum Challenge for November 2013**

Do you remember waiting for the postman? 

Or 'snail-mail' as it is known these days.

Mail, parcels, postmen, mail boxes, post offices, stamps, delivery vehicles and aircraft - anything to do with mail!

 Lick you lips and 'post' your best!

Please remember:

Two images per member per week.

Image size: No larger than:
800pixels X 600pixels
and 200KB

Thank you for this great idea, CLive. I might be able to capture a postbox or a sign or something .:)))

Helle

An interesting idea, Clive.
I hope to be able to photograph some mailbox, although now they seem to so many cells of the bees! :-)

What an interesting challenge!  I'll have to keep my eyes peeled. 

Thanks for being the first to 'post', Tara!

That looks like a stunning environment.

It's pretty amazing!  The Imperial Valley is an irrigated desert, so across the street from something like this date palm farm you might see the native sandy scrubland.  Weird place.

Oeee - I like this Clive!

Great start Tara!

Welcome back, Dierbaar!  Hope you had a great time!

Oh Tara - thank you! I had a great time and do have a new favourite game reserve. Will hopefully get to my pics at some stage - just have some catching up to do.

How lovely photo's to the item, dear Tara!
Such a cute selection of Bill's Birthday cards,
and I'm amazed that you desert is full of mailboxes, instead of cacti. :)

And...DANG, I didn't get the ebot in which Clive announced the subject of the challenge of the month of November.

I guess for me I have a good change to take a picture of our postman, or a female-postman, LOL!

How lovely Tara! Happy birthday to Bill. Life seems to pass me by at too rapid a rate at the moment!

How amazing, Steve. I have to think of your homepage-photo.

Cool!  So different from ours.

Steve - what a lovely and bold post box! Great image!

I have been searching for postboxes like those, Tara.

A very belated birthday wishes to Bill too!

That Royal Mail box just had to feature, Steve!

the tax man

prutz is not amused! &*^%$#(

@ steve: 1th tought TARDIS

very well seen

Hi Martin, such a nice idea, I had a great giggle!

Had de belastingdienst je te pakken?! ;-)

Martin - LOL @ the tax man's post!

Jacomina - what delightful posts - both of them!

Thank you very much, dear Carin. :)

It's so interesting to see mailboxes from different parts of the world.  Jacomina, your "ordinary" post boxes near the farmhouse are quite different from ours, and therefore something I want to see!  :)

@ Tara: So nice from you to say that!
Your comment really suits your kindness, my friend :). Thank you very much.

@ Jacomina ... I'm quite sincere, and didn't just say it to be kind (although I love it that you see me that way!)  Thank you, dear one!  :)

Quote - @ Jacomina ... I'm quite sincere, and didn't just say it to be kind  Thank you, dear one!  :)

I know, I know, and so glad, I know you !
:thumbupboth:

Nice ones, Errol!  Of course you could have just posted your avatar and called it good.  :P  Call it "Retired Mailman."  :)

LOL Tara...  Now why didn't I think of that...   Aloha....Errol

Congratulations to you all for the wonderful images! :-)

Errol and DarthJ - lovely images!

I better get cracking and post something quick before the month runs out!

I'm enjoying seeing everybody's "in the mail" shots!  Things are so different in different parts of the world.  We've been in the same campsite for two weeks, so nothing new but cactus and more cactus on this end.  :P

@ DarthJ, In the USA everithing look bigger then in Holland, even in the carriage of mail; I suspect, you have a larger size stamps, haha!

You did two interesting uploads.

@ So, Errol, you're a retired postman, if I understand it well. I don't know if you brought the mail by bike, as happened here? :)

This is one of our postmen from Postnl, with a crown.
Always at your service. ;-)

With us the mail is thrown through the door. (plump)

" DarthJ, In the USA everithing look bigger then in Holland "

Let U even op de nummerplaten van die vrachtwagens ...

But if you want it really small, how about this 1/87th scale IFA W50 from the East-German "Deutsche Post" ?

Trying to answer here in the Belgian language:

@ DarthJ : Allez, ut zin dienen Belgen, é! :blink:

I didn't know that Belgians living at such a large foot. ;-)

The Yellow German post is einfach 'Grosse Klasse'!
Thank you so much for your nice upload, DarthJ.

Meanwhile I can show you a viewpoint most of you will never enjoy : from the inside of a post office. It's gone now ... modernised with open counters.

So nice to see this photo, DarthJ.
It's a beautiful and bright room.

@ Jacomina ... I particularly like your neighbor's post box!  My word.  It's a work of art unto itself!

Thank you Tara, I will say to our neighbor what you said on your word! :)
Unfortunately he is old and senile, so I have to wait for a good moment. When you talk to him, he can not stop talking back, and constantly is trying touches you, he really is a little creepy. :scared:

Oh dear!  Don't try to talk to him just to tell him your friend in America liked his post box.  :P  He doesn't need to know!  LOL!  Besides, he'll forget right away anyway.  Be safe, dear one!  :)

@Jacomina....I was a distribution clerk at Hilo Post Office assorting mail.  I also worked in the mark up section...forwarding and undeliverable mail.    Altho I have not seen anyone delivering mail with a bicycle here in Hawaii before, I think its a good idea.  Drop everyone at the top of the hill and let them work downwards.....With the hard times the post office is having, they should think about it....I had suggested this before.    Aloha

Quote - Oh dear!  Don't try to talk to him just to tell him your friend in America liked his post box.  :P  He doesn't need to know!  LOL!  Besides, he'll forget right away anyway.  Be safe, dear one!  :)

LOL, Tara! Yes, I will be safe, dear friend. Karel has given me instructions how to handle with him. ;-)

There was a time he concocted the craziest things to come into our home, talking the strangest things. I could not respond, other than to laugh, very nervous.
We now treat him properly, but short. Karel has made him clear, he can count on us, when he is in distress, but that we can't be close friends.

You are very right about forgetting things! He actually forgets a lot, even his name. He told us he is called "Gijs", but in reality, his name is "Jan". LOL!There are (short ) times he behaves normally, then I'll tell him about my American friend, who loves his mailbox. "He will go through the roof" (over the moon), and gonna to tell me everything about that box!

Have a great weekend, dear Tara and Bill, and don't fall into a cactus! :huh: