"...Tu ne me manques pas du tout, du tout!" says the weeping bunny with translucent pink ears. My Year of the Rabbit / Hare: maximum card (with a postmark not very clear), and a folded card that I show you as the companion/reference item for that type of postmark

Whenever you get a pictorial postmark, get also that postmark on a companion/reference item, with a surface more paper-like than the glossy surface of a modern postcard.

I like the highly-embossed surface of this card.

This is a folded card, a type of  "postcard support" that FIP CfM does NOT allow you to use in creating a maximum card.

What do I think?

1 -  I can cut it in half anytime, if I so desire. 

Then it really looks like a custom postcard.

But I prefer to keep it that way - maybe I'll get more items like that from the source specified on the back of the folded card. :)

2 - I can cut it in half anytime, if a future potential partner/buyer so desires.

3 - if anybody will ever get this, he or she can cut it, or keep it just like that, or send it as an "enriched" greeting card, unique in the world as it really is.

3 - for the postmarking Post Office, this was a revenue generator, without further work necessary from a delivery mailman. 

It will not require postal delivery to anybody's mailbox, per se (not as is, "naked").

All the similar items that I requested on this occasion (postcards, folded cards, covers) were delivered to me in 1 SASE that I provided in the initial cover that I sent for this postmarking event.

It's not a postcard, and not a cover - just a philatelic "page"/souvenir. 

I gladly relinquished a stamp for the privilege of obtaining that desired postmark. 

Everybody is happy, except maybe the purists. :)

4 - could things have been better?

Sure!

If (some) maximaphily purists would argue that the stamp actually depicts some stupid  fruits [:) my wording is enhanced for entertainment purposes only; no fruit or person is REALLY stupid]  [kumquats], and therefore this YOTH (Year of the Hare) symbolic stamp design DOES NOT qualify for concordance of subject in a maximum card...then I'd say: well, you DO have a point.

As I said before, it blows my mind why a hare is NOT the primary graphic element here, in this USPS stamp.

Why don't you, USPS, instruct your designers to focus primarily on the animal in the "Year of the..."?

Leave other symbols, non-specific for that year, in the background!

Are kumquats eaten ONLY during the Year of the Hare?

What do you concoct next?

Year of the Chopsticks?

:)

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