Last week, our friend Iris sent us the link to the videoclip below, which brought a big smile to our faces. The song is a little balad called 'I won't give up', by Jason Mraz.

The tunes are nice, but what really caught our attention was the amount of stationery displayed in this clip! It's full of old-school envelopes, stamps, cancelation marks and postcards!

Doesn't it make you want to write someone a love letter? What are you waiting for? :)

PS - German and/or Chinese users can see the video here or here.

This is the Night Mail crossing the border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner and the girl next door.

Is this poem familiar to you? It's part of the movie Night Mail, a 1936 documentary film about a LMS (London, Midland and Scottish) Railway mail train.

We've talked about the Railway Post Offices before, but on this documentary, you can actually see them in action:

Isn't it fascinating? The on-board mail sorting, the clip mechanism to snatch the mail bags, the control room... oh! and the British countryside of the 30s!

The poem, which is recited at the end of the documentary is by W. H. Auden. Wikipedia provides some insight about it:

As recited in the film, the poem's rhythm imitates the train's wheels as they clatter over track sections, beginning slowly but picking up speed so that by the time the penultimate verse the narrator is at a breathless pace. As the train slows toward its destination the final verse is more sedate.

I hope you enjoyed that glimpse of life on a Railway train!

As for the results of last week's giveaway, the eight lucky winners are: ladybug513, anitag71, kirimon, lovpinka, leoloco, journeyy, gwyllion and lars. Congratulations!

Well well well... what have we here? Could it be... a music video featuring a ton of nostalgic postcards?! :D

We couldn't resist sharing this catchy tune, which is the newest single from Sunderland's band Frankie & The Heartstrings. Enjoy!

Have you ever wondered how postcards get to you? I mean, we all know how to send them and we know it's our postman who delivers them - but what about the rest?

Wonder no more - we have found a great video that shows how the magic happens between the sender and the receiver. It documents a sample delivery through the UK Royal Mail but the process worldwide doesn't differ that much. Enjoy!

Quite impressive, isn't it?

So, we've just spent a few hours putting all of your submitted photos for the birthday contest together in a little video and we have to confess that we are currently feeling a bit teary-eyed... The two-hundred and seventy smiles that we have received from all over the world that have swept us off our feet.

Just look for yourself:

Thank you all, you're the best! Paulo and I are currently wishing we could make a biiiiiig roadtrip around the world to hug each and every one of you! :)

Paulo's little random number generator selected the following winners for this contest: Miza, arlene037, Mayalost, Patflash and Angerona. Congratulations, we'll be in touch to deliver the code for your new pack of 60 MOO postcards!

No luck this time? Don't worry - we have a new contest coming soon!

PS - Do you subscribe MOO's newsletter? They featured Postcrossing on their newest issue, and offered everybody 15% discount on postcards using the coupon 9MW4J4, until August 15th. Now's your chance to make some neat postcards :)