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

Your pin must include:

🔹 A photo taken while the aircraft is in the air, WITH a postcard or postage stamp included in the image. The photo should capture a real in-flight view or experience, such as the landscape below or a landmark, while clearly showing elements of an aircraft or something distinctive happening onboard.

Examples:

✅ a Victoria Falls stamp photographed while flying over the falls,

✅ an Ethiopia postcard matched with a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony happening onboard.

🔹 The postcard or stamp must have a clear connection to the scene or experience being captured, such as the country, region, city, landmark, or cultural subject shown in the photo. 

🔹 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

❌ General airline branding, flight information, or an in-flight map shown on a screen does not count as the matching scene on its own.

❌ 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:

🔹 Your pin must be published on the public piXPost map.      Private pins do not count.

🔹 Your pin must first qualify under one of the eligible pin categories for this badge.

      For example:  if you are using a postcard pin, it must qualify as an eligible Xtreme Deltiology pin. If you are using a stamp pin, it must qualify as an eligible Xtreme Philately pin.

🔹 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 waterway, boat, ferry, route, dock, harbor, marina, or journey being shown.

🔹 The waterway connection should be visible in the photo or video, or clearly explained in the title or caption.

🔹 A boat does not always need to be visible, but the pin should clearly show or explain the waterway setting.

🔹 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…