This is with repeat countries turned off!
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Wow - and I thought I was badly off because Iāve got three travelling to Belarus and two to Russia (amidst a lot of other countries with very lengthy travel times). I hope some of your cards get there soon.
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Yes thatās our lot now because quite a few countries (inc USA) still donāt send to RU according to the mail Monitor. Russia and Belarus are my new "Germany "
Edited to add: recently average travel times for my cards to RU are only marginally longer than to US, (quick estimated 22 vs 30)
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Thank you - I hope so too. Most of my expired cards are to inactive users, which doesnāt help.
Iām jealous - 48 days average for my Russian cards since September 2023 - I am glad they are arriving, though!
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Hello All,
The British Isles section has a Round Robin, and we have some fabulous open groups at the moment and some fantastic themes on the horizon.
Please come and check out the British Isles Round Robin and join a postcard group, I am sure you will all enjoy, plus some of the postcards will be a lot cheaper to send compared to other areas of postcrossing.
Mark @Maddymail 
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It isnāt just the UK looking to tinker with its postal service: PostNL wants more time to deliver letters, due to lack of staff - DutchNews.nl
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Iāve just been to see this postal-themed film at the cinema: Wicked Little Letters | Rotten Tomatoes. If you see it, prepare yourselves for a lot of blue language!
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Is anyone watching the Panorama programme?
Me !
Iām watching with a bit.of a delay, but have just seem the Panorama team but what look.like large letter sized envelopes with normal 1st class stamps on them ??
18 days to China with a handwritten Chinese address (and it looked dreadful!!!) 
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Just seen a hilarious PHQ stamp card that, really made me laugh out loud, and it sounds about right, lost just before Uranus!
ā¦and I thought it was joke, but no a real stamp!
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Have that set somewhereā¦ and there were some silly little airmail sized labels with silly sayings!
I have this card - happy to send it to you if youād like one of your own!
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This reminded me of the video I saw online from The Evening Show with Arjen Lubach (think of it as the Dutch version of late night talkshows)
(I donāt understand Dutch either, I translate the captions into English and find that itās good enough for me to understand it)
I laughed at the line āPostNL - what you do not send is always on timeā 
I had that stamp (and the others in the set) a little while ago x
Oh wow! I had my first ever time having more than 1 postcard to the same country yesterday, 2 cards to the USA). Now I feel very lucky this hasnāt happened more to me
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I had perhaps my strangest ever experience posting a card today.
I travel a lot for work and often take cards with me to drop in a box I might pass on the road. I didnāt see any that had parking today so when I got home, I ran round to a box in the middle of town. Itās one of those hole in the wall types built into the local sorting depot. Itās split into 1st/2nd. (Side note, how do others post international cards in split boxes like this? I usually put economy as 2nd, standard as 1st, but Iām not sure it matters).
Anyway, they collect at 5:45 and I got there at 5:30. I had two cards and put the first in the 1st slot, when I felt something grab it. I put the other in the 2nd and saw (and felt) a postal worker on the other side had grabbed the card! Clearly it was being emptied 15 mins early and they caught it before it went in the sack! Iāve handed cards to posties collecting from a box before if I bump into them, but Iāve never handed it through the slot to a waiting hand!
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Does anyone like/grow green gooseberries? Weāve only got red ones I think! Wondering how gooseberry green the gooseberries are in comparison to that new Ā£2.50 stamp!