My situation this year is opposite to yours: while the countries we can send to are quite limited, most of my sent cards arrived very fast (most of them arrived within 2 weeks, some even only took 1 week!). But my incoming cards tend to travel way longer before the covid. I guess this is why I got more “register my expired card” messages this year.
It is a little disappointing each time I found an empty mailbox, while there should be 40 or more postcards traveling to me.
The Support replied me and said that “asking a member to register an ID for a postcard they haven’t received is against the Postcrossing rules.”, and the Support is going to remind this postcrosser that “they shouldn’t be doing it for their account either”. So this does sound a little tricky. Perhaps it is not against the rules, but it will make others break the rule. So until your offer to register not-yet-received-but-expired cards are noticed or reported, you are safe?
I think maybe some people have a good reason to suggest registering expired postcards (such as exceptionally unreliable local mail service). I saw one profile telling that their postman often puts their postcards in the neighbour’s mailbox and the neighbour is away for months.
I’m not sure if I would ask to register even in this situation.
That’s upsetting. I hope all these postcards will arrive soon.
This year I got a few of similar messages - due to a long strike most of the cards sent to me expired. I ignored most of them, but I remember one that was interesting “I don’t want you to register it if my card has not arrived yet, but in case I forgot to write the ID…” that one I made sure to answer and told them about the delay.
Anyway, after some time I got all the cards and registered each one. So I guess it’s ok to send people a message asking if they got your card, but only if you’re polite and don’t demand they do anything.
Tomorrow one of my card will be expired to a child account.
Her activity in postcrossing shows a weird pattern.
In 2018 she only registered card in January and May.
In 2019 she only registered card in May and all of these cards was sent in September 2018.
She came back in October 2020 and registered 4 cards. Now she is missing for more than 1 month. Maybe she will come back next year to register my card
I have another card that I suspect will be expired also.
This card went to a member who has 9 sent and 3 received.
She joined PC in 2017. She sent 2 cards and registered 1 card in 2017.
She sent 3 cards and registered 2 cards in 2018.
She sent 3 cards and registered nothing in 2019.
She came back on November 2020 with 1 sent card and now missing again.
Do you think she will come back next year? I hope so
I put my return address stickers on almost all of my postcards and they do make me feel a little safer for if the post office can’t deliver them, they will be sent back to me. The expired cards on my accounts now are mostly to people who haven’t logged in for months.
However, a great news is that today after 137 days my card to Australia finally arrived.
I have a lot of expired cards to people who had long gaps in registering this year, then started registering again but all they registered were cards sent recently. I really suspect that a lot of cards were lost in the hottest days of the pandemic (I know it’s still bad in a lot of places but mail seems to have improved - slow, but at least it arrives).
I am wondering if all those cards will arrive all of a sudden after months and months.
I thought my only expired card to Japan was lost out there somewhere. The user was active, and I sent it in June. The other day it was registered at 184 days! Suprisingly, all the cards I sent during Covid have now arrived, but travel times have been longer. For the first time in a long time, there are no cards in my expired list. Keeping my fingers crossed that it stays that way for a while!
Accounts are set inactive after 30 days of not logging in, if I remember correctly. I think they also write multiple emails to remember the member to log in!
Last week, I received two cards sent from Japan in March!
Japan to Australia is usually quick, and I’ve had a couple of swap cards more recently that didn’t take that long, so there must have been an older bag of mail from the start of the pandemic that just got overlooked.
Well, I have two, but what makes me sad is the fact, that one is Germany, which is normally without problems and one to Russia (those cards take an eternity to get there, but a bit faster than China or Turkey).
I’m in the US and I have received cards recently that were sent to me over 100 days prior. At least one of them (possibly 2) were from Russia. And one from Germany.
I currently have 3 expired, 2 to Russia and one to Austria. I keep hoping they’ll arrive eventually.
I always resend if the recipient is still an active member and has visited the site within three weeks. This works out pretty well for me. I have 3 expired cards in the last 365 days and those 3 members are not active but didn’t stop their accounts.
Yesterday and today 9 of my cards expired. I have the awful feeling that they will never arrive. They are addressed to about 5-6 different countries so the issue seems to be here. I believe nobody opened the box i put them in since november or mishandled the whole batch.
Addresses were drawn on 2nd n 3rd or November meaning i would have mailed them all together on 3rd or 4th. It seems like i have a lot of resends to do…
When it is 1 or 2 cards per year, 9 at the same times seems like not a coincidence at all And I had picked such lovely cards…
I’ve just received address of a user whose last seen was 27 days ago, last sent and received was on January 2020.
Not sure if he really comes back to postcrossing or just trying to log in to check if his password is still working
to Finland 
in only 256 days.
My recipient registered an expired card. Do I get to send another card to another person? I’ve tried but was told I’ve reached my limit. Thanks