put the stamp ....in the lower left corner, the lower right corner, anyplace but..
and did you know what messages you were sending with this practice? For those to whom it matters, this is a language post. I was staying with an aunt this week end, and she produced a book, from about 1937, "The News Chronicle Book of Everything" (or thereabouts). It had a big section on superstitions and fortune telling - " because they are so popular, there must be something in it" - but in this section was a couple of paragraphs on "the language of stamps". Here is the code they listed:
Top Left, Upside Down = I love you
Top Left, Crossways = I love another
Bottom Right, Crossways = No
Bottom Right, Upside Down = Yes
Bottom Left, Normal = Do you truly love me?
Bottom Left, Upside Down = I am angry with you
Bottom Left, sideways = I long to be friends with you
Top Right, Upside Down = Friendship
Top Right, Crossways = Kiss
Top Right, Normal = Business Correspondance
Centre Left, Upside Down = I am engaged
Has anyone else heard of this? Used it? Suddenly realised they have a secret admirer at the business that has been bombarding them with mail?
