Mon Amur Léopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) cartes maximum - Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord

This was a folded card, which I glued to postcardize it, and I added a mailing label with a valid UK address, on the back. As far as Royal Mail UK is concerned, it's a postcard, so it's eligible for the requested pictorial postmark.

In USA, the postal associates don't care (rightfully so) if it's a cover, or a postcard, or a folded card, or some philatelic souvenir page that is not intended for mailing.

What matters in USA is that I relinquish stamps in exchange for collectible postmarking, with no obligation of later postal delivery of each item separately, by a mail carrier. 

Just return them to me in the SASE that I provided to you, USPS.

Unless I request separate delivery, and I have enough postage on each item that I want to be returned alone on the same day as the postmark date.

I don't know yet if the British postal employees would be willing to philatelically postmark for me some souvenir cards/pages, that are not covers and not postcards.

But I already verified that postcardized items (that were originally folded cards, or cut-outs from books) are acceptable.

On the other hand, I wish that USPS would not charge for the return envelope with the postmarked items inside.

Royal Mail UK considers that I already relinquished enough postage for the project.

USPS, please consider, and you might see a (small) spike in revenue. :)

Amour is Love in French; Amur is a river.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_river

There are about 300 in zoos worldwide.

"The Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis), also known as the Far Eastern leopard, Korean leopard, and Manchurian leopard, is a wild feline predator native to the mountainous areas of the taiga as well as other temperate forests in Korea, Northeast China and the Russian Far East. 

It is one of the rarest felids in the world with an estimated 30 to 35 individuals remaining in the wild.^[2] The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has deemed the Amur leopard critically endangered, meaning that it is considered to be facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.^[1]"

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_leopard}

Pink nose leopard...(in the top postcard)

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