Oh really? I was always under the impression that it was.
I think the balance generally evens out though, I have 5 expired cards since January but I still have more recieved cards than sent. I have never noticed that my sent number was out of balance due to expired cards.
Itâs true that you donât as explained in the post above, but to me the waste is in the time and effort and money put in the card to someone. Same if I send a card to a friend and it gets lost. So I find it a bit sad, but there is nothing to do about it so I just donât think about it too muchâŚ
Iâm also not in favour. They get auto-registered if a profile is deleted, and then they look like any postcard that truly arrived. Maybe they did, but they werenât registered.
In fact, I like to think that most of them arrived, just they werenât registered. That makes me feel better than cards that truly never arrived to their destination because they were lost in the post.
There is nothing to do and nothing to worry about Itâs just something that happens. I have 8 expired cards right now, 3 to members that havenât logged in in months. Itâs just normal, even if frustrating.
I think this too, because in my experience, mail is very rarely totally lost.
They just donât have time to register, or interest, they think they registered it, put it somewhere and forgot. Something like that.
I just recently received a card from USA that travelled 256 days. I donât know if it was a second card or the âoriginalâ.
I have 17 expired between 60 - 356 days travelling time.
6 of them has not been here for 3 month - 1 year, which I consider âlostâ
Only one has empty profile.
8 is going to the USA
7 to the Russia
1 to Germany
and 1 to Taiwan
So 11 are still active members, and I hope the cards arrive.
Interestingly I have 2627 sent, and same amount received! I wonder if there are as many expired to me (but I donât want to know).
I know at least one is travelling to me, because the sender asked already.
Even though itâs not nice to have the expired ones in the list, I somehow feel extra happy, when I get a Hurray from an expired card
I have to disagree with this because since the pandemic started, the amount of stuff that never made it anywhere is absolutely insane
Even before, it wasnât that rare (depending also on the countries involved).
But when people never come back to postcrossing, I think in a lot of cases they must have received it.
I also love when a long-expired card is registered! But get a bit sad when a card drops off the system after 365 days - I had one of those last week (to a very active member so truly lost. Very annoying, I considered sending a second one but in the end I didnât).
Postcrossing was created in 2005 - of course there are profiles of members who began but quit again. If I ever take a pause from Postcrossing, I would be devastated if my profile and my beloved wall was deleted just because I didnât log in for some time.
Of course 10 years of inactivity are a long time, but still⌠Why should I be bothered by old non-active profiles? They wonât get my address, I donât interact with them.
Besides, it just happens that cards get in between the process of someone quitting. Thatâs part of the gameâŚ
Iâve just counted my expired cards: 7 out of 20 belong to members who didnât log in for months. Only three are ânewbiesâ with just a few sent / recieved cards. Everyone has filled out the profile.
Nobody knows why some users didnât log in anymore - because they lost interest, or because life got in between? As I said, itâs part of the game.
I agree. I would hate if they deleted accounts when inactive. I started postcrossing in 2007 and was quite active until 2014. I took a long break and recently became active again in December 2020. I would have been very upset if my account had been deleted!
Definitely donât want inactive profiles deleted â Iâve had to or wanted to take breaks from PC for various reasons over the years, some fairly long, and yet Iâve always come back and been an active member again.
In the last year or so, I wrote to several members that came back after years and years and years (effect of the pandemic, I believe, as I didnât encounter that so often before).
So it makes sense for profiles to stay. People could actually delete them (I mean the owner of the profile deletes it) if they really want to.
And as mentioned, that doesnât affect sending as they wonât be picked to receive a card. The only problem is that it takes about a month for them to be automatically put inactive (and rightly so, because not logging in for a week or 4 is not that weird if someone is busy or just doesnât spend time between cards browsing the website or on the forum) so you in that month you could get someone who actually wonât come back. Yep, it sucks, but life and postcrossing go on.
Of course you are all right! I didnât think that far, of course people can start postcrossing again after years and it would be a shame if their previous successes were gone! But there are certainly many profiles that do not come back, but unfortunately it is not possible to tell them apart! Probably it is the newcomers who lose interest and stop after a few cards, what a shame if you send a card to someone like that!
Newbies⌠that is the risk to take when signing up as a Postcrosser. Too bad, there is no way we can police the newbies to register their cards on timeâŚ
Well - we all were newbies at a certain time, werenât we?
You never can tell if THIS newbie youâre sending a card to is a reliable one or not.
I enjoy writing cards to newbies (as I do to âoldiesâ as well ). I remember my newbie time. Each incoming card is SO exciting!
However, I did not have that much lost cards. About 3% I suppose. I believe this is normal.
I think that would be unfair for people who do many other things or people who travel, and sometimes because we donât use social medias and live a very âoutside lifeâ with lots of activities we are very busy, so we sometimes donât check e-mails for two weeks, sometimes more, we just donât live that âonline lifeâ.
Funnily enough, I had the opposite experience today. I registered 4 cards today that were all travelling 138 daysâŚ3 of the members havenât been seen in a couple of monthsâŚ
Oh no. I got new address of member whose last log in 28 days ago and never register anything since March. Will this be my 5th ghostcrosser this year? Itâs only June
Yes, after 7 years I came back, thanks to this pandemic!!! And I am completely hooked on postcrossing now I went even on Instagram to look for postcrossers active there to swap cards, because postcrossing went to slow. So yes I am really really happy that old postcrossing accounts are not deleted.