4321 - Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia

A great Postcrossing Meet Up card. It looks like about 7-8 people attended this meetup. The meetup was at the World Stamp Championship in Indonesia in 2022. World Stamp Championship?

The Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (FIP) is the world federation for the study of postage stamps and postal history. It is based in Zurich, Switzerland and founded in 1926. In 2004 it ran its first World Stamp Competition in Singapore.

There are 11 FIP Commissions which deal with the following subjects:

Aerophilately - air mail stamps and its history
Astrophilately - stamps and postmarked envelopes that deal with spaceflight
Fight Against Forgeries - philatelic fakes
Maximaphily - the study and creation of maximum cards
Philatelic Literature - written material related to philately, primarily about postage stamps and postal history
Postal History - study of postal systems and their development
Postal Stationary - stationary items, such as stamped envelopes, letter sheet, postal card, letter card, aerogram or wrapper, with an imprinted stamp
Thematic Philately - collecting stamps that relate to a certain topic or concept (eg - Scouting stamps)
Traditional Philately
Revenues - revenue stamps, tax stamp, duty stamp, fiscal stamp
Youth Philately

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3584 - Blaine, Minnesota, United States of America

The sender was in Las Vegas recently and bought this card from The Mob Museum. The Mob Museum, officially known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, is located in downtown Las Vegas. It open in 2012. It features artifacts, stories, and the history of organized crime in the United States, but also the actions and initiatives by law enforcement to prevent such crimes. The museum is found at the former Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse, which was built in 1933. The quote on this card was from John Gotti. John Gotti (1940-2002) was the mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. After ordering the killing of Gambino boss Paul Catellano in 1985, he took over the family and led what was the United States' most powerful crime syndicate. He was known as The Teflon Don after three high profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals. Later it was revealed that the trials had been tainted by jury tampering, juror misconduct, and...

3566 - Bakhmach, Chernihiv, Ukraine

Bakhmach is locarted in northern Ukraine. I'm taking this next paragraph straight out of Wikipedia: During the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 26, 2022, at least 65 units of Russian military equipment moved through Bakhmach, with about a hundred more on the outskirts. Local residents tried to stop the convoy on their own by blocking tank tracks with makeshift objects and convincing Russian soldiers not to move towards Kyiv . One man attempted to climb onto a tank and block the road with his body (he was not hurt). However, the military equipment continued to move, and Russian forces fired several shots into the air. Слава Україні!

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

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