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Wishing you and Shanda the very best.

I've seen Robert Indiana's Love quite a bit (like with the Lego) its a great design and great to hear more about it. Princess Anne isnt married to Mark Phillips (all 3 of them divorced). ww Well done Edward and Sophie for lasting 25 years. Happy Birthday Shanda

Greetings from Indiana. I used to work in Indianapolis and drove by a Odd Fellows meeting building on my way to work. The news station here ran a story about him last year. Of course it was filmed in front of the LOVE sign he designed. The reporter's name was Shanda I think. Great video and sending some Hoosier hospitality. 😊

Old Hippie art student from the 1970s here. Robert Indiana is one of my all time favorite artists. Thanks for the art history lesson today. I always buy the LOVE stamps here in the US. Just got the new ones with art by Keith Haring. I'm planning to make & send Valentines this year. How wonderful for your wife SHANDA to have a Valentine's birthday. Happy Valentine's Day & Happy Birthday, Shanda. ~Debbie ===^..^===

Great choice for February Rob. I have never come across the name Shanda before, what is the origin?

Great interesting video, Shanda

Happy Birthday to your wife Shanda!

I had no idea your wife's name was Shanda, happy love month for both of you 💕

Interesting look at Robert Indiana and his art. Great theme for the month, too. Wishing Shanda an early Happy Birthday!

Great information about Robert Indiana and his work. I never knew before that that iconic LOVE stamp was based on his art. Definitely something is in the mail to you, but it was quite late getting off to you, but should be there by the end of the month. Happy birthday to your wife on the day. Loved the George VI and Queen Mum stamps at the end. Now there's a difficult (and fairly expensive) omnibus issue to complete.

Hey Dad guy - great video. Robert Indiana also designed the basketball court graphics for the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1970's. Shanda

Thank you for video, it was nice to learn something about Robert Indiana. I almost missed that word... shanda ;)

What a beatiful name your wife has, Shanda

Really love learning about the history behind these stamps! Robert Indiana's design has had such a lasting impact, shaping themed postage for decades. 📮

LOVE and phillately goes hand in hand❣️❣️

I will not be around for the week of Feb.2nd to Feb. 9th. Will be in Nassau Bahamafo for R&R. Need this real bad. Wife will be with me for sure. Love is in the air.

I LOVE my family they help with there advice (Shander)

I do not want to miss anything .Very interesting.Love stamps as much as you do. Bill B.

Good giveaway for Feb

Right aftr the meetup!

I think that was my guess for the next SA country you would feature. I think next might be the 9th largest SA country. Great job once again, and I am looking forward to next country regardless of what one it will be.

Interesting that the envelope form Austria were not cancelled at all. Just like recent mail from Canada.

Nice mail haul. Glad my envelope reached you.

Nice sweater

You had a wonderful week of mail! It is always so nice to open the mailbox and see colorful postcards smiling back. BTW...too much snow...brrrrr

I'm happy the envie I sent has arrived. I have another one to send soon, too. I'm not a fan of Ohio, but it's where I live now. I'm a Southern CA girl, so I never thought I'd be in this place. Anyway...I really hope you enjoy the stamps & will look forward to your next stamp video. Try to keep warm...this cold weather is my least favorite thing!!! Time to start to plan our garden...with the tariffs & deportations because of the cruel administration here, we're planning on growing as many of our veggies as possible this year. Short growing season. Just basically June-September. But we do ok with our garden & it gives me something to look forward to. I love seeing all of the postcards you receive. ~Debbie ===^..^===

So much beautyful postcards 🤩

Nice incomings thank you for sharing. Looks like snow is starting to pile up 😍

Glad the postcards made it well :)

It's amazing postacards. Thank you for sharing and Happy Postcrossing :)

Getting old fashioned letters is such a joy:) I keep putting off sending them, though, but should get on that. It's really hard to comprehend that young people can't read script. What the heck? I'm 52. Amazing how time flies and things that were once imperative skills to have become obsolete.

Glad you liked the cards I sent! The stamp inside the glossy envelope was used...even though it wasnt cancelled. I glued it on and figured you'd appreciate it 😊 I didn't like to use it as real postage as I thought a postie may notice it was glued on (some of us do notice that lol !)

Great mail haul, Rob. Have a great weekend.

Happy post crossing

It is a little past quarter to one in the wee hours of a new month :) I had the calendars changed to February 2025, and subsequently popped on to You Tube and your Friday fix :) May you have an enjoyable month of mail ahead, as you have in January gone by (in my case). I am expecting a registered mail at the start of this month, and already got a notification of the same earlier in the night. So I look forward to that, and getting back to the regular way of postcrossing after ages.

I'm triggered by the mention of the country because it's been in the news lately in regard to being a dumping ground for the horrific purge going on in the US of migrants. Thanks for the history and highlighting the importance of Colombia in the world's economy. Lately, I can't help but wish the US president knew something...anything about all these countries he thinks it's fun to head-butt and would have some respect for them. Stay strong Canada! I'm absolutely not wanting to make a stamp comment political...but politics are very relevant when one wants to learn the history of stamps. I know the world has a history of land grabs and conquering. It's fascinating to learn about in philately. Stamps record so many highlights of history. I never thought I'd even imagine a resurgence of that old jazz in this day and age, though.

Another great video with lots of history and some beautiful stamps. Last week a friend of mine sent me a box of stamps which had belonged to a friend's father. There was quite a good showing of Australian stamps from the 1960s and 70s, but surprisingly, there were quite a few from Chile, Colombia and Mexico. It was interesting to see what Colombian stamps were in your father's collection and which were in the box. Quite a lot of the same. I guess the next country after Colombia would be Costa Rica. ...and after that Cuba?

Nice collection

Awesome , please say hey to Eric from South Carolina, Bill & Marie my wife of 54 yrs.

There goes Robby, LOL!!! You did it again my friend nice job. I love the dad guy's dads' collections. I certainly see that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. He did have a love for stamps Rob and so do you. Again pal, thanks for you time and effort in making another "Top Shelf Video" 👈

Columbian COFFEE!!! Thanks for sharing another country in your Father's collection. ~Debbie ===^..^===

Great video of 🇨🇴 stamps. I also liked the history lesson. It's always fun seeing stamps that I know that I need. Keep filming. 😊

Interesting country, they sure have gone through some turbulent times. You have added a lot to your father's collection.

Colombia 😉. Fun video though 👍

Thank you, Rob, for the raffle and your generosity! I truly appreciate it. Also, a big thanks to everyone who congratulated me! ❤

Congratulations to the winner!

All those Machins😮

Congrats to the winner, teaser at the end!🎉🎉

Congratulations to the winner this month! Can anyone guess what next months topic might be?? 🤔

Congratulations to the winner! wonderful prize! I subscribed! 🤗