This badge celebrates true Airmail–style postal adventure — photos must be taken in the air.

Your pin must include:

🔹 A photo taken inside the aircraft (window view, wing, cabin, etc.) WITH A postcard or stamp photographed during the flight.

🔹 The postcard/stamp must be related to the scene that you are capturing in the image. 
(destination, airline, country, etc.)

🔹 The pin location should reflect your in-flight GPS position at the moment of posting

Does NOT count if:

❌ You take the photo on the ground or in the airport.

❌ You pin the airport instead of in-flight coordinates

❌ You use google images

❌ You are on a simulator, attraction that is not an actual flight

Not every boat adventure heads for the open sea. Some begin in a harbor, on a ferry, beside a lake, or along sheltered waterways like rivers, canals, bays, and coastal routes.

(these pins are separate from a Pirate Seas pin and do not automatically qualify for both)

How to Earn it:

🔹 A valid postal pin on the public map, private pins do not count.
      Example: 
             xtreme philately pin on a ferry leaving a harbor. 

🔹 Eligible locations may include rivers, lakes, canals, harbors, bays, ferries, ferry docks, marinas, sheltered coastal routes, or similar waterway locations.

🔹  The postcard, stamp, or postal item must be clearly connected to the specific journey being captured — for example, the vessel, ferry/cruise line, route, port of departure or arrival, destination. Generic nautical, or boat-themed items do not qualify unless they relate directly to that journey.

🔹 The image must clearly show the postal item together with identifiable onboard or scenic elements.

This badge celebrates true tin can mail-style postal adventure.

— You must be physically on the water, onboard a boat or ship in open water with a true Xtreme Philately or Xtreme Deltiology moment at sea.

Your pin must include:

🔹 The postcard, stamp, or postal item must be clearly connected to the specific journey being captured — for example, the vessel, ferry/cruise line, route, port of departure or arrival, destination, sea crossing, or maritime location shown in the pin. Generic nautical, pirate, cruise ship, or boat-themed items do not qualify unless they relate directly to that journey.

🔹 Open water” means a genuine sea or ocean crossing. Rivers, canals, harbors, marinas, reservoirs, ponds, and small inland lakes do not qualify

🔹 The image must clearly show the postal item together with identifiable onboard elements and open water (deck, sails, hull, etc.).

🔹 The pin location must be offshore, not on land or near-shore locations.

🔹 The vessel must be actively underway, and the photo should make it unmistakably clear that you are at sea.

Your pin does Not Count if:

❌ The photo is taken from land
(beach, harbor, dock, shoreline)

❌ Rivers, canals, harbors, marinas, reservoirs, ponds, and small inland lakes do not qualify

❌ You photograph a vessel from a distance and pin an ocean location
(rather than documenting an onboard moment)

❌ You pin a boat’s location while standing on shore

❌ The vessel is docked or operating in non–open-sea environments
(river cruises, canals, near-shore tourist rides)

❌ The photo shows only water or wake without a clear onboard postal moment

COMING SOON…