how to avoid getting your stamps franked....

not a really good idea but this sender certainly achieved the objective.. and the mail got through... albeit 26 years ago... this envelope dated June 16 1982.

Have you got any interesting enevlopes? do send me a scan and if I show it I'll send you a few stamps in exchange... if you send me your address as well :-)

Best wishes... Michael

just a postcard..... I think not....

Hi everyone.. hope some of you found me.. remembered my back up site.. could be my permanent site..

I have had no reply to my service requests for over a week.. big recommendation on what service to not use in the future. I seriously am mad and if had the money I would take a full page ad in every US and wherever else newspaper and make it quite clear what I think of these people.... writing to the general manager I found, has not even got a reply.... service is one of those unheard of words.. want to do me a favour tell everyone you know how terrible Netidentity / Tucows are... I wish I could write what I really feel. :-)

Anyway.. one good thing about stamps is you meet some really great people and one guy I have written about before has given me a card - that I carried on the Singapore - Nagoya - Narita A380 flight.... hope you like it..

He is rather talented when it comes to design and that sort of stuff and I have signed him up to a lifetime contract to design for me ha ha ha ha .. only joking. Anyway, hope you like this card...

Note the frankings on the stamps.. pretty sepcial eh!!!

Best wishes...Michael

cddstamps blog... News

if you remembered that my other blog http://blog.michael.dodd.com/ had this as its backup I am pleased you are here.

I cannot get a reply from my blog provider and am getting more and more frustrated with their imcompetence by the day.

So I will be writing here only in future. I'll be updating links as fast as I can.. which may not be that fast given my work schedule.

But to stamps. hope you like this cover.. from my Singapore Tokyo flight this past week. Note the special handstamp to commemorate 30 years of Narita on the reverse.

I have a few unsigned covers for sale.. only 8 in fact as I only made 15 covers in total and the rest I had signed by crew.

Anyway..if you want one please email me at cddstamps@gmail.com. price USD $20 including postage and packing, certificate of authentication and some pictures of crew signing. Price for the sigend cover available on request

Best wishes.. Michael

my back up site

anyone remember this?? I cannot post to my other blog as I will be over the bandwidth limit,... bloody stupid if you ask me but then what do I know :-) am seriously thinking of changing the whole set up but that will take time...

be patient please...

I will be back... there where you know me

Michael

A380 First Flight Covers....

Hello everyone. sorry not written much, been rather busy.. and travelling.. but hope you enjoy this. If you want a first flight cover you can get an unsigned one ( unsigned by crew or pilots that is as I will sign it) for USD $38 including postage and packing
Singapore London A380 First Flight Covers now available. I arrived back in Sydney this weekend to find my covers returned from UK where they were franked.
There are a selection of the three covers I produced available for you to see on my web site pleasae look at http://www.cddstamps.com/new_page_21.htm These are collectable and for the one with the 4 pilots signature there are only 4 and one stays in my collection. For the cabin crew signed covers there are 7 and again one stays in my collection.

If you want an unsigned (except I will of course sign it for you ) these are USD $38, inclusive of postage and packing and some photographs and a certificate of proof of being carried on the flight.

I need to sell a few of these to pay for the Singapore London trip and my planned Singapore - Narita flight in a few weeks (May 20th)

If you want to buy a cover please email me at cddstamps@gmail.com First come first served basis.
Best wishes... enjoy your stamps.. and of course, first flight covers .... Michael.

lets chat..............

Hello.. just to let you know there is a marathon stamp chat over the weekend with the IPDA.. log into stamp http://www.ipdaonline.org and click CHAT to join us.. Hope to see you there

as for my stamp writing, please read http://blog.michael.dodd.com I have tried to write occassionally ....

enjoy your stamps.. Michael

GB Lancaster and York issue

Hello everyone. I am back in Sydney for two days and been catching up on some stamp mail and postings. I found this MS in my mail box. You will recall I wrote about the Royalty and Heritage issue some weeks back. This is the MS from the issue. I rather like these. Your thoughts?

I had a look at the Royal Mail web site to see what they wrote about the stamps. Nothing too exciting but this text taken from their description of the Presentation pack ...

..."The two Houses were constantly at war even though both families descended from the Plantagenet King Edward III. Bettany Hughes provides an overview of the period, Kate Stephens brings the dramas to life with her use of contemporary illustrations and weapons expert Mike Loades is a mine of information about the weaponry used during the time..."

Anyone esle get a smile from the wording about Mike Loades?, are they having fun I wonder or just couldn't see the double pun.. weaponry.. Loades.. mine of.. well it amused my sense of the use of the English language.

Will be back in Seoul Monday night. Will try to write again before leaving.
Best wishes......... enjoy your stamps ............ Michael