Category: Mail

I really must speak to Postcrossing about the fact that I send off two postcards per week (on Monday and Wednesday) but often the postcards sent to me arrive on the same day!

This is from Oksana who tells me these three facts:

I’m from Russia, but now I live in Korea

I’m married and having daughter

My hobbies are reading, cooking, baking and postcrossing and stamp collector-ing.

This is from Katerina who is 23 years old and live in a small town called Smolerichi.

I love this little bird. He’s super cute!

What’s weird about this card is that it is a Papyrus card, that looks exactly like any Papyrus card I could buy in any store that sells cards here in the USA.

But inside (and apologies, Picasa isn’t uploading to blogs anymore so I have to do it myself and sometimes the orientation thing is off) is Cyrillic!  Crazy!

What was written inside said, “Here is written: harmony and piece!”

So great!

This is from Vladimir.  He hopes I like his postcard.  I do!

This is from my friend Sara (of Pike Schemes fame) to represent the “real” postcard world.

She also sent this postcard, which she made herself.  Astute readers with long memories might remember this picture from this post back in 2012.  I had the photo displayed prominently at my house because I loved it so, but Matt was not as much of a fan and was making noises about throwing it away, so I tucked it into Sara’s Christmas present that year.  And she loved it too.  But now it has come back to me as a beautiful postcard I can hang on my wall.  I love it!

Note from the future.  Several WEEKS after I received this post card, I was weeding out front when the mail carrier came by.  “I just loved that picture of you in the denim overalls at the wedding!” she told me. “I laughed and laughed.”  It took me a moment to figure out what she was talking about, but then I put it together and told her that it wasn’t me in the short-alls, and then gave her the background.  Well done Sara!

It’s true!  At times, I get postcards from Portland, because I have a friend and we sometimes communicate via postcard.  Why send postcards to people in your own city?  It’s fun!  Plus you can pretend you live in those pre-telephone day, when there was a morning post and an evening post and that was the only way to make plans.  In this case, making plans was exactly what this postcard was all about.  Plus, a quick review of Lone Survivor.

This is from Aubrey who passed along this quote:  “Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”  Francis Bacon.

This is from Eke who tells me her favorite quote is “Life is what happened to you while you made other plans.”

And this card just launches me into “Everyone’s a Hero” from Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog.

“Hello from Ukraine!

“Happy New Year and Christmas!!!  On this card you can see a part of our history of cartoons.  You can find it on youtube (for example) ‘How cossacks’. I hope it’ll be interesting for you.”

Then some cyrillic and the translation: “A faithful friend is the greatest treasure.”

Thanks Larisa!

This is from Elizabeth, who reports that, “today the weather is sunny and 11.8 degrees F”

In your Postcrossing profile you can say what you like and I mention that I collect quotes and ask people to send me their favorite.  So sometimes I get quotes written on the cards by the senders and sometimes people send me postcards with quotes on them.  This is from Anne who is a retired teacher and is collecting quotes from all over the world.  So we have that in common. She translates this as, “Each day is a new beginning.”