“Sorry to bother you, but before I send a replacement I wanted to see if the card arrived, but not yet registered? Hope you are doing well!”
I don’t do this often, as it’s been either no response or one that they did not get it. If they are active in a country with reliable postal service I just send another.
hey guys. i sent my very first 2 post cards two months ago and both of them have yet to arrive. i believe this may be a result of our crazy postal system here in Bosnia. can anyone advise me on what i should do now? do i just wait it out?
So i got a message about a week ago, asking me if i already gotten her postcard. I had not and i still haven’t.
At the moment i think it travelled for 40+ days. I am from The Netherlands and the card should be from France… so that shouldn’t take too much time i suppose.
My question is…because she did include the postcard ID in her message. Is it wise to register it, without receiving the card. Or should i just wait and let it expire for her? I really don’t know what is the best thing to do. I hope someone can help me.
It’s not only that you don’t have to register a card you didn’t receive, you’re actually not supposed to. It says in the Community Guidelines, “Never register a postcard that hasn’t arrived yet; if you see requests otherwise, please report it to us!”
Any possibility to xheck with your postal system?
Do they treat cards worse than letters? Then you coul try draw a third adress and send in an envelope (and explaining why, cause some people ddon’t like envelopes)
It’s not wise. It’s forbidden to register without receiving.
If it arrives, it arrives. If not, not your problem. (No problem with registering later within a year, if it shows up some day.)
I just did this because my recipiant is in my country and is the ONLY card that has taken 40 days. So i decided to send another. I think the original must have gotten lost.
I’ve received a number of ‘re-sent’ cards, and always feel bad when I do, because the sender had to pay/spend time 2x. Then I wonder what the etiquette is, if I have to send a ‘thank you’ card in return for their efforts.
Often the 2nd card arrives shortly after the first one arrives. Sometimes mail is just delayed somewhere.
I’ve resent expired cards 4 times. Two received the second cards sent! It is your own choice.
I wrote on the card that it was the second card sent. Maybe they’ll end up with both eventually, though I don’t think so.
Sometimes mail, especially postcards, just gets lost. It’s purely your choice.
I have done twice, but only after waiting 100 days & only because both postcrossers were still active, I wouldn’t have if the recipient appeared to have given up postcrossing.
For both It was clear they must have got lost. Both second cards arrived & both recipients were grateful that I’d made the effort.
It’s personal choice, I’d just say don’t do it too quickly, some cards just take a really long time to reach their destination x
Why do you make your mind up on cards that are travelling? You cannot do anything about it anyway.
When I dropped them into the letterbox, I also let them go mentally and do not think of them until I get a hurray-message. Currently having 30 cards on status expired, so what. Some day most of them will arrive.