Snail Mail

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Growing up, I vaguely remember my brother having some sort of stamp collection. I remember when stamps had the ship motif on them. When postage was 10 cents, then 15 cents, then 20 cents, 22 cents, and now 23 cents. But other than these, I guess I’d always thought of stamp collecting as a hobby of the male gender, the elderly, or *ahem* nerds in society. But after a tour of the Singapore Philatelic Museum last week, if stamp collecting is associated with nerds, then I guess I’d better buy that N.E.R.D t-shirt and wear it proud ‘cos it’s one heck of an interesting topic and place.

The lobby of the Singapore Philatelic Museum which also doubles up as a post office for certain postal services

Remember the familiar Singapore Telecom logo in orange? The white and orange scooters that postmen rode on?

A bright yellow old skool post box..

A slightly more recent one by Singapore Telecom

The gallery with images of local multi-disciplinary artist Tan Swie Hian whose stunning paintings were made into stamps. And completely sold out in a morning.

Somewhere in the museum, there exists a coffin…

Obviously not the sort for the blue and cold but rather, what the postal folk call a sorting coffin where they sort the mail

And if you thought stamps were boring and only had portraits of birds or dead presidents on them, check these out:

These are fruit stamps from the UK. They work like those Mr Potato Head dolls where you can stick on moustaches, eyes, hair, noses etc. onto the fruit of your choice! Very cool. Very unavailable.

In celebration of the Year of the Dog, the museum also has a special exhibition on doggy stamps. Just follow the little paw prints up the stairs…

Something for the kids…

And adults…

The Singapore Philatelic Museum also has a cool museum shop. No tacky Merlion or orchid souvenirs here. Instead, I found myself eyeing these wax stamps.

For those getting married, they even have them in silver and gold!

And for the clothes horses amongst us, there are even pretty cool looking t-shirts and fisherman pants with a postage print on them

Now, just don’t try to mail yourself!

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