Nations: Mania: Post

Lifelong trotskyist, Postman 'Viva la revolucion!' Pat
delivering Manic stamped letters to undermine Royal Mail
(Seen here with anarcho-syndicalist associate
known only as 'black and white cat')As you will have learned from the Manic constitution, Mania only covers that part of the world closer to me than it is to anyone else at any given time. While it's territory therefore fluctuates, it is reasonable to say that it is on the small side. Mania's postal system is, correspondingly, a relatively modest affair, consisting chiefly of:

1. My picking something up, and...

2. ...my putting it down again somewhere else.

However, this same technique, sometimes disparagingly called simply carrying things about, lies at the heart of any postal service.

It is largely for reasons of national prestige, therefore, that the Manic Post Office prints its own stamps. In their digital form, these may be 'attached' to emails, or they may even be printed out and stuck to envelopes and postcards.

Manic stamps are valid anywhere in the world where the postal workers don't check too carefully, or have a sense of humour.

This, I have been delighted to discover, seems to be almost everywhere.

Mania's stamps

A 1 ebleto stampThe Manic Post Office distributes a range of seven standard or definitive stamps, all following the same basic design, and bearing the symbol of the Manic post office: the central 'kiss' from Mania's flag) overlaid with a stylised stamped letter. They are tinted according to the colours of the rainbow (cf. Mania's anthem), and valued in ebleto (or fractional eblo, click on the link for a description of Mania's currency). Their denominations are:

1 ebleto, red
2 ebleto, orange
5 ebleto, yellow
10 ebleto, green
20 ebleto, blue
50 ebleto, indigo
100 ebleto (=1 eblo), violet