In today’s episode, we will be catching up with the latest postal bulletin, diving into some Link Love, and looking at a great summary of FPC.ink.

Acquisitions

John- nope (but going to a pen swap today)

Evan-celebratory pen? (hasn’t arrived yet)

Graf Von FC Storm Grey Ink

Franklin-christoph is having an online pen show on Oct 19th.

https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2021/pb22582/html/info_007.htm#ep1462469

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/local-releases/ca/2021/1008-new-for-the-holiday-prices-shipping-rates-and-dates.htm

Holiday shipping deadlines

https://www.instagram.com/p/CUpCC0lgDgp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://www.wellappointeddesk.com/2021/10/link-love-beyond-tired/

https://kottke.org/21/10/letters-to-the-future

Vietnamese creative agency Ki Saigon has designed a book out of recycled plastic containing letters to read a millennium from now.

Chicago Pen Show recaps

https://www.gentlemanstationer.com/blog/2021/10/2/report-from-chicago-pen-show-highlights-from-friday

https://www.penaddict.com/blog/2021/10/8/2021-chicago-pen-show-recap

https://www.gentlemanstationer.com/blog/2021/10/6/2021-chicago-pen-show-recap-back-to-normal-slowly-cQgWK

https://www.gentlemanstationer.com/blog/2021/10/13/swapping-fountain-pen-nibs-from-easy-to-expert

https://www.wellappointeddesk.com/2021/10/support-your-favorite-stationery-people/

https://thepostmansknock.com/black-crow-halloween-mail-art-tutorial/

https://www.penaddict.com/blog/2021/9/24/fountain-pen-companion-not-just-for-ink-addicts

https://twitter.com/ryanoferguson/status/1439928079665795072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1440144477616623623%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wellappointeddesk.com%2F2021%2F09%2Flink-love-ama-with-aoc%2F

AMA (ask me anything) with AOC (US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez). She showed off her three favorite pens (Kaweco Sport, Fischer Space pen and Pilot Precise V5)