Again some German stamps from pre-ugly-qr-code-times…
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Today I drew an address for someone with Spongebob postcards on their wishlist.
Back in 2013 Nickelodeon and the USPS partnered for the Spongebob Mailpants campaign which included giving out these prepaid postcards for people to mail.
The barcode below the image is called an intelligent mail barcode and is used for many things, and tracking postage payment is just one of them. When Hallmark added these to prepaid greeting card envelopes, they had to pay the USPS 50% of the postage price upfront and the other 50% when the card was actually mailed. The intelligent mail barcode on each envelope is what enabled the USPS to keep track of how many were mailed and how much money to invoice Hallmark for to cover the postage. I don’t know for sure but I assume something similar might be going on with this pre-paid postcard from Nickelodeon.
Enjoy this photo of a Spongebob prepaid postage endicia, which is almost a stamp, and a fun history lesson about the USPS!
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Cat faux postage stamp is from a giveaway by Portland Stamp Company.
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I hope there’s a 5-cent stamp on each card that we aren’t seeing, otherwise all the cards are underpaid by a bit (the domestic forever stamp is 2,50€ and international priority 2,75€ so you need to add 0,25€, not 0,20€ like before the latest price hike).
Recent outgoings
We Indian postcrossers had fun race for IN-600000 ,and i drawed many addresses on main postcrossing site after a while, thank you so much all:)
Using the pretty Mahabharat stamps 
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Used today new release stamps with special postmark. 100th Anniversary of Johor Causeway. (Joint Issue Malaysia - Singapore)
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