What I like most about Postcrossing is receiving mail from all over the world. Being a bit of a box ticker, I’m definitely on a mission to complete the 50 states (or is it 51?). I actually printed out a map of the territories and I mark them off when a card arrives from America. As I’m fairly new, I only have half a dozen states so far.
Has anyone got the lot? Do you do something similar for other countries? (I also have a list of the Canadian Provinces). Or do you file by country only and not subdivide?
Since you asked, I have nearly every state in my stock. Either a view or a map. Some states I have heavier numbers, like Florida, California, Oregon, Georgia, Virginia, etc. Probably the most sought-after state where I count my cards on one hand is Rhode Island.
If you like things like this I can only recommend you to have a look at the #games-activities:bingo section! It’s a lot of fun competing with others in completing a set goal (like receiving and sending a card to every US state)
Just from someone living in that state. Doesn’t necessarily have to be state themed. If no indication of the state is on the card or in the text I’ll lightly pencil in a reference.
Thats funny because I was looking through the state cards I’ve been sent yesterday and thinking how cool it would be to have enough to create the map of the US. So far i have 5 state maps. I think so far I have over 20 States that I’ve received postcards from.
I also do this. But I don’t differentiate between sent and received cards. So far I haven’t interacted with members from Hawaii, North Dakota, South Dakota and Rhode Island.
I actually have received a postcard from every single US state (+ Washington), but I’m still waiting to get an address in Montana and Wyoming. There simply aren’t many active postcrossers living in these states …
I know this isn’t necessarily 100% accurate because sometimes people will travel and send a postcard from a different state without actually marking that info in the website, but still a pretty cool feature to be able to have an easy visual like this where you can zoom and see state lines.
Hello. That’s a really cool thing to do. Also it’s 50 by the way. (Not trying to be rude I’m just saying in case you care) I live in America but I still like getting postcards from America. I have cards from, Wyoming, New Jersey, New York and a few other places. I send postcards featuring my state all the time
I would be happy to send anyone a postcard from South Dakota. It wouldnt be an “official assigned” card though. If you want one send me a private message. It is fun for me to help fill missing South Dakota and Iowa ( I live only 1 mile from Iowa) state cards.
Going back to the original question, I do this for all countries with some variations in precision.
I use Mapchart and keep a global map with countries, then regional maps with first level divisions and also some additional maps, Germany for the districts, France for the Départements, Russia to have both Europe and Asia.
I have an A3 map of the States which I’m using to keep track of my American cards. Seven so far - Washington, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Massachusetts & Maryland.
