The Missive Maven

A letter-writing blog extolling the virtues of snail mail:
old-fashioned postal paper mail and all of its varied accessories.

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The blogs on this page haven't been updated in a long while, but they still provide some lovely archived reading for those with epistolary interests.

  • The Art of a Letter

  • Can I mail this?

  • Craftgasm

  • Creative Correspondents

  • Dear Teacher

  • Drop me a line

  • The Elevated Envelope

  • Envelope Chronicles

  • A Flood of Memories

  • For The Love of Letters

  • For The Love Of Mail

  • Gray Dog Mail

  • Happy Little Mailboxes

  • INtangible blog

  • Just Letter Rip

  • Lady Kayy

  • Letter Love

  • Letter Writers Rock

  • Life with Chandlerguera

  • Mailbox Happiness

  • Make every day a good mail day

  • Old-Fashioned Correspondence

  • A Peachy Life

  • Penpal from Southern Colorado

  • Penpalling & Letters

  • Please Deliver To...

  • Postal Travels

  • Postalatry

  • Via Airmail

  • World Traveler Postcard

    If any of these blogs have returned to action, please let me know and I'll put them back on my front page.
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    Inspiration


    "Letter writing is the only device
    for combining solitude with good company."

    -Lord Byron

    Resources

    • • Letter Writers Alliance
    • • Postcrossing
    • • How I keep track of my mail
    • • How I obtain cool vintage stamps
    • • Stationery sources: recommendations
    • • Anysoldier.com
    • • USPS zip code lookup
    • • Guide for addressing international mail
    • • Books for soldiers
    • • Calculate postage (USA)
    • • Mailbox map (USA only)
    • • Find a mailbox in an airport
    • • The Postal Society
    • • National Postal Museum
    • • Arago: People, postage and the post
    • • International Union of Mail Artists
    • • Sandbook.net
    • • Writealetter.org

    Instagram

    How to find people who might write you back

    • • Letter Writers Alliance
    • • Postcrossing
    • • Sendsomething
    • • Swap-Bot
    • • Penpal of the Week
    • • International Geek Girl Pen Pals Club
    • • Snail Mail Ideas
    • • Mail Me Some Art
    • • The Postal Society
    • • Letternet
    • • 2012 Call for Correspondents via Good Mail Day
    • • The Penpal Project
    • • The Letter Exchange (LEX)

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    Letter Blogs

    • Viva Snail Mail!
      Tips Subscribe an excellent Zoom Fulfilling For the a mobile Or Desktop computer
      3 days ago
    • Vintage Voyage
      Séjournez à la résidence luz-saint-sauveur : détente et nature
      3 days ago
    • A Month of Letters
      Help Shape the Future of LetterMo! Take Our Community Survey
      2 weeks ago
    • i Still write
      Ever wonder where to start?
      4 weeks ago
    • Musings of a Postcrosser, and letter writer
      Gimmicks
      4 weeks ago
    • Suus in Mokum
      Geometrical gouache
      7 months ago
    • Save Snail Mail
      Save the U.S.P.S from DeJoy’s DeStruction!!
      4 years ago
    • Letters of Note
      It is only a matter of time
      5 years ago
    • 366 and more
      February Reading Update
      5 years ago
    • Letter Writers Alliance
      Sincerely Yours, the LWA
      5 years ago
    • League of Extraordinary Penpals
      Going Postal
      6 years ago
    • Mrs. Murphy's Mailbox Magic
      Once Upon A Mailbox
      6 years ago
    • Letters & Journals
      Porcelain Mailbox
      6 years ago
    • send more mail
      Open Letters
      6 years ago
    • 365 Letters
      Holocaust victim's note illustrates the power of a handwritten letter
      7 years ago
    • Oh, write me!
      Happy Thanksgiving
      7 years ago
    • No1Sassygrl MAIL
      My Wonderful World of Washi
      8 years ago
    • the suburban pen pal
      Moving over to Instagram & Twitter
      8 years ago
    • Penpal of The Week
      International Women’s Day
      8 years ago
    • Because I Really Felt It
      Call Me, Maybe
      8 years ago
    • Lovely Handwritten Notes
      A Farewell, of sorts
      8 years ago
    • Scribbling Glue
      Mail Art Dabbling
      8 years ago
    • Hippie Artsy Penpal
      Sich wundern. Dann doch nicht.
      8 years ago
    • Mail | Dactyl Life
      Bethany Lake
      9 years ago
    • In Love With Mail
      So what happened since?
      9 years ago
    • Leaving a Paper Trail
      Not sure what the future holds. . .
      9 years ago
    • Postally Yours
      Sweet Sweet Shop
      9 years ago
    • Everyday should be a Red Letter Day...
      “Letters To Myself”: the work of Alan Blackman at SFPL…
      9 years ago
    • S-FIMail
      Rhubarb Flower
      10 years ago
    • postalpaperphile
      A few outgoing… I’ve been so lazy this month :S
      10 years ago
    • Letters to Meredith
      Incoming mail and Instagram!
      10 years ago
    • The Letters In My Mailbox
      Fresh Picks May Ipsy Bag
      11 years ago
    • Letter Matters
    • deardetective.com
    • The 52 Letters Project
    • The World Needs More Love Letters

    Postal Blogs

    • Going Postal
      5 months ago
    • National Postal Museum
      5 years ago
    • Your Postal Blog
      6 years ago
    • The British Postal Museum & Archive
      9 years ago
    • The Stamp Collecting Round-Up
      10 years ago
    • Positively Postal
    Letter Writers Alliance

    Mostly Mail Art

    • Hawwa's Mail Adventures
      15 hours ago
    • envelope 100
      1 week ago
    • Mailart 365
      2 months ago
    • Mail me some art
      4 years ago
    • CappuccinoAndArtJournal
      5 years ago
    • Heleen21 Mail Art
      6 years ago
    • Poeticpaper Post
      9 years ago
    UK mythical creatures: Pixies

    Postcard Blogs

    • The Postal Picture
      2 days ago
    • Postcardaholic
      2 months ago
    • Little Red Mail Box
      2 years ago
    • A Journey of Postcards
      4 years ago
    • PostSecret
      4 years ago
    • deltiolog
      5 years ago
    • My Little Postcard Corner
      5 years ago
    • BAD POSTCARDS
      7 years ago
    • Scriptor's Postcards
      8 years ago
    • Postcards And Road Trips
      8 years ago
    • Postcardese
      9 years ago
    • A Postcard a Day
      9 years ago
    • Fill My Life with Postcards! :)
      9 years ago
    • STUFFellaneous
      9 years ago
    • BOX 652
      10 years ago
    • snail mail -> my hobby, my passion
      10 years ago
    • postcard happiness
    • Can you send me a postcard?
    • Postcard from Turkey to world

    Postal pictures

    • Good Mail
      9 months ago
    • Pens&Envelopes
      4 years ago
    • Postage Due
      11 years ago

    Primarily Paper

    • Letterheady
      4 months ago
    • Piccadilly Post
      5 months ago
    • LBK Card Creations
      2 years ago
    • Quo Vadis Blog
      4 years ago
    • Rhodia Drive
      5 years ago
    • Paper Crave
      6 years ago
    • Felt & Wire
      8 years ago

    Pen, ink, & et cetera

    • Uncustomary Art
      23 hours ago
    • An Inkophile's Blog
      1 day ago
    • The Well-Appointed Desk
      2 days ago
    • Dante's Wardrobe
      5 months ago
    • Rants of The Archer
      11 months ago
    • The Creative Beast
      1 year ago
    • mim4art
      1 year ago
    • GirlZoot
      2 years ago
    • Tiger Pens Blog
      2 years ago
    • LetterLover
      4 years ago
    • Bywater Wisdom
      5 years ago
    • Tiny.Angry.Crafter
      6 years ago
    • Love Letters
      6 years ago
    • No Pen Intended
      7 years ago
    • Life in a Typewriter Shop
      7 years ago
    • Queenie and the Dew
      7 years ago
    • Ink Nouveau
      7 years ago
    • Return to Rural
      7 years ago
    • funny haha funny weird
      7 years ago
    • Papered Thoughts
      8 years ago
    • Hippie Artsy Penpal
      8 years ago
    • Little Flower Petals
      9 years ago
    • A Penchant for Paper
      9 years ago
    • Spiritual Evolution of the Bean
      9 years ago
    • lady dandelion
      9 years ago
    • Peninkcillin
      9 years ago
    • The Haunted Quilt
      10 years ago
    • isavirtue
      10 years ago
    • Art of Pens
      10 years ago
    • carrie carm: full of charm.
      10 years ago
    • Shannah Renee
      10 years ago
    • Drawing with a Squirrel
      10 years ago
    • xo.sorcha.ox
      10 years ago
    • Simply, Sara Jean
      11 years ago
    • Warren Tales
      11 years ago
    • Note Booker, Esq.
      11 years ago
    • Winnie's Girl
      11 years ago
    • Alex Myers Writing
      11 years ago
    • Pens Paper Inks...Whatever!
      12 years ago
    • Simplicity Embellished
    • Belen: beh-LEHN, /bεlεn/
    • JetPens Blog
    • Goodnight Little Spoon

    Of note

    • • 2011: a year in mail
    • • Missive Maven featured on Postcrossing
    • • Coming full circle: a transition back to music
    • • Making a handmade envelope
    • • Dialing for stamps
    • • How I obtain cool vintage stamps
    • • How I store my stationery
    • • Unpick to open
    • • I'm a day late for National Coming Out Day...
    • • You want mail?
    • • On Holiday Cards

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