“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” EB Browning
We’re still two weeks away from Valentine’s day where people express their love for one-another, often with cards mailed to loved ones.
Canada has some wonderful place names, and many people thought it would add a very unique touch to have your card postmarked in a special way.
There are now four communities with just such a unique touch
Envelopes are already arriving in those communities, with the addressed cards and love letters inside (with proper postage affixed) in order to be sent on from the locations.
For over 20 years, love letters and Valentine’s cards have been arriving and sent out with a wonderfully appropriate postmark from the town of Saint-Valentin Quebec, population about 500.
But even before that, Canada Post created the postmark from the tiny village of Love, Saskatchewan, where about 100 people live over 30 years ago. Since then many thousands of cards and letter have been sent out, with love on the inside, and Love on the outside, (stamped on the envelope).
Then a couple of years ago, two communities each with about 700 souls in Newfoundland were also added with their unique names. Now you can send your love a Valentine’s card with a postmark from Heart’s Content, or from Cupids.
For Canada Post the idea is not entirely just for the sake of promoting love, but also the hope it will encourage more people to send cards and letters through the mail. It also doesn’t hurt that it takes two stamps instead of one: that is, one for the envelope to the uniquely named towns, and another for the addressed envelope inside to receive the postmark.
It may take about 4 working days for a letter to be delivered within Canada, and longer to be delivered to or from outside the country.
If you’d like a unique postmark on your Valentine’s missive, send the stamped addressed envelope inside another stamped envelope to:
Connie Black-Sturby, postmaster,
Canada Post, Love,
305 Main St.,
Love SK S0J 1P0
Lilianne Baribeau, postmaster,
Canada Post, Saint-Valentin,
790 chemin 4e ligne,
Saint-Valentin QC J0J 2E0
Donna Gibson, postmaster,
Canada Post, Cupids,
Cupids NL A0A 2B0
Joy Parrott, postmaster,
Canada Post, Heart’s Content,
218 Main Road
Heart’s Content NL A0B 1Z0
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