Possible Clues:

• Painting pole in front of joker is something on which to write home about perhaps
• Criminally corrupt CID tapes dispatch from traveller
• Vacationer's mailing (In this answer, notice letters 8-5)
• Mailed souvenir
• Gallery type gets letters for Christmas -- it's what you'd expect during the holiday season
• Visual record of corrupt act spied abroad
• Member of tribe given river job, character that communicates colourfully?
• Vacationer's mailing
• Film opening with comedian - the type that's reminiscent of someone's holidays
• Getaway memento