Thanks for the wishes, as nobody gave me any physical presents, I’ve spent my ‘birthday money’ on postcard boxes and stamps! How sad is that but I’m happy! I found some older Harry Potter stamp sheets and some funky fruit, those should brighten up my cards. (Being careful to buy ‘mint’ not ‘unused’ stamps of course)
@anon12505293 I’ve successfully made simple vegan pancakes with Gram flour (+water & oil). You just need to accept they will have some degree of chickpea flavour, but they were not bad at all.
I don’t know if others have seen this request from the Postcrossing team for short videos of people choosing/writing/posting postcards, but I’ve sent in a few short videos.
What good tags have people participated in recently? I did a bunch last month for Month of Letters, but now haven’t sent Postcrossing postcards in a wee while so I have itchy fingers!
Two of my favourite tags are still going strong in the new forum: Blue tag and Poem in the Post tag. Took part in both last month and received some great postcards, Alys.
I’ve found a couple of interesting random swaps in the #trades-requests-offers corner of the forum, might be worth a look? One was a swap with someone who was offering a card from a box set I’ve had my eye on, and another was for a weird, underwhelming, why-is-there-a-postcard-of-THIS vintage nonsense card (aka, my favourite!)
I’ve been back at work this week, so it was nice to have just one card to send in return for both of these! Not enough energy for much more than that I love that you can send absolutely LOADS of cards if you want to, but that there are also ways to send just one or two extras too.
I’ve been in Travel Mode since early December, because I’ve been staying at my mum’s house during the lockdown. I am turning it off on Monday, and returning to London on Wednesday.
I am due a lot of postcards… because I’ve been sending all through that time. At the moment, I have a 61 card difference between sent and received. I can’t wait to see what comes through my letterbox!
I switched mine to inactive from mid-November, in advance of bubbling with my parents at their place for Christmas. I didn’t want have too many sitting waiting for me when I got back to my place. I returned to my place on 2 January and switched my profile back to active: what followed was a deluge of postcards for the rest of January! I’d been sending from mid-November right through to when I left for my parents in mid-December, so had built up a similar gap between sent and received to yours.
There’ll be a lot of people writing to you simultaneously around the world! The system definitely tries to make up big gaps between sent and received as quickly as possible. Look through my received cards and you’ll see loads written on 2 January, the day I switched my profile back to active. It was almost like being Harry in the Dursley’s living room, yes!
I suppose I might achieve that if I actually posted the card on the day I drew the address! But I need at least one evening for writing, and then if I miss the collection the next day…
Yep, I’ve drawn 4 addresses over the past 24 hours that I haven’t written yet. I’ll write them tonight and drop them in the postbox tomorrow. They get collected at 5pm. Sometimes I time it right with collection, but it’s never a stress. I don’t want to make Postcrossing stressful!
but I’m happy! I found some older Harry Potter stamp sheets and some funky fruit, those should brighten up my cards. (Being careful to buy ‘mint’ not ‘unused’ stamps of course)
I love that you can send absolutely LOADS of cards if you want to, but that there are also ways to send just one or two extras too.
