That code on the divider line indicates a custom postcard, that I created at winkflash.com.
The mailing address belongs to my friend Ian Billings, my most favorite stamp dealer from UK.
I had to provide a UK valid address to comply with the rules of the Royal Mail UK - so it looks like a valid postcard. Then I got from RM the superb postmark on it.
"The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), also known as the Amur, Altaic, Korean, North Chinese or Ussuri tiger, is a subspecies of tiger which once ranged throughout Western Asia, Central Asia and eastern Russia, and as far east as Alaska during prehistoric times, though it is now completely confined to the Amur-Ussuri region of Primorsky Krai andKhabarovsk Krai in far eastern Siberia, where it is now protected. It is the biggest of the eight recent tiger subspecies and the largest living felid, attaining 320 kg (710 lb) in an exceptional specimen.[2] Genetic research in 2009 revealed that the current Siberian tiger population is almost identical to the Caspian tiger, a now extinct western population once thought to have been a distinct subspecies."
PR China has many more billionaires in US$ (115), than it has Amur tigers in the wild (20)!
"China says it has nearly 6,000 tigers (of all species) in captivity, but just 50 to 60 are left in the wild, including about 20 Siberian tigers"
"Based on the Forbes report released on March 2011, there are 1,210 billionaires boasting worth of $4,500 billion as of February 14, 2011. The United States had 413 billionaires with a total net worth of $1,500 billion; Asia had 332 (nearly three times the number two years previously), 115 of whom were in the People's Republic of China); Europe had 300; and the rest of the world had 165."
Comrades, comrades!...save the tigers! :)
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