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Thread: Posting home.

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    Posting home.

    This is aimed at the non-us visitors to Florida in particular.
    When you've written all your postcards home and stamped them with the correct postage, you don't have to go to a postbox to post them, simply put them in the mailbox in front of your villa and put the red flag up and when the mailman does his next delivery round he will collect them to take them to the post office.
    In my naiivety, I thought the red flag was an indicator that you had received mail so of it was raining you didn't have to go out and check and get wet unnecessarily, someone put me right, (well as far as mailboxes go anyway, ) a couple of years ago.

    Babblin Boo
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    Failing that-there's a post office at Celebration. A guest left her gold jewellery-luckily I found it! Say no more!

    Was I relieved after posting it in Celebration (I paid for extra insurance) when she rang to let me know she had received it!

    Orlandobabe


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    On one of my first trips to Florida I ended up taking my postcards home and posting them at Gatwick airport as I hadn't been able to find a post box. I discovered the next year that the blue 'trash cans' I'd regularly walked passed were in fact the post boxes. Exit one idiot<img src=icon_smile_clown.gif border=0 align=middle>

    Spooky



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    there is also a post office on 27 by Market place



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    Watch out for the stamps! Lots of stamps now sold in the US are self adhesive so don't spend ages trying to lick them and wondering why they won't stick to your postcards. Just peel off the backing and put them on your postcards!

    Blott


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    When we first went 6 years ago to the States, we used the self adhesive stamps and can't believe it has taken them this long to produce them over here. Christmas was the first time you could buy thwm in books or 6 or 12 but they've been around a bit longer if you buy sheets.

    Babblin Boo


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