Stamp rallies can include unique acrylic stamps like this one, which Lim collected when she visited a temple in Japan. — MICHELLE LIM
When English writer Theodore Hook sent himself a postcard in 1840, he meant it as a practical joke. Little did he know that one piece of self-designed card would inadvertently, in the year 2001, be recognised by the Guinness World Records as the oldest picture postcard in the world.
Hook also probably would’ve never guessed that nearly two centuries later, sending postcards to oneself has become a ubiquitous act.
