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July 2014 I was introduced to Postcrossing.net. I am a keen gardener, as well as a photographer, and learnt that a fellow gardener was into postcards in a big way. So much so, that she belonged to a postcard swapping site – Postcrossing. She showed some of the postcards she’d just received that week, from…
Another first – this time from Scotland. I really like this one. It was a whole month after I’d received the one from China. A long wait.
Here are a couple of cards I sent. One was taken in New Zealand a couple of years ago when I went on the Hobbiton tour. The person I sent it too had said on their profile how much they loved Lord of the Rings so I thought it would be good to send them…
First card from China. Surprising that it took this long as there are so many members in China.
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First card from the UK. I love photographing birds so it’s great to receive cards from other countries with birds on them.
My first card from Japan. Dancing Cranes.
First card from the states!
As your membership grows older and you send and receive several cards, the stats start to kick in. Postcrossing sends you monthly stats to show you how many you’ve received and sent and even your standing in your own country, i.e. your position number for the most sent and received. Here’s an example of my…
First card from Czechoslovakia. I am learning to spell these countries and learning something about each one from the messages handwritten on the back by the senders. Also learning some geography – a subject I hated while in school. Never too late to learn I guess 🙂 The great thing is that each sender loves…
My third card from Russia. By now I was learning from the stats at the Postcrossing site that there tens of thousands of members in several European countries and in China. In comparison there are only 5,600+ members in Australia. They work the system so that a different country is drawn each time someone requests…