With one of the two US addresses, a small address error could be to blame for a) non-arriving or b) delays.
I’m afraid that’s why. Today I write the address by hand - with the corrected address and the other address also by hand. Maybe it’s the capitalization of the complete address (in the print version…) I’ll keep you posted…
If it makes you feel any better for the Australian cards in the future, it’s likely not because of printing - I received one recently with a printed address! I think it’s a smart idea, I’m half tempted to do it myself.
I received two official postcards today from the Philippines, which I could not register as it was over a year since the address was taken out. In fact, both cards was dated in 2020.
Today my postcard has reached recipient in USA after 131 days. According to my stats, average travel time when I send to USA is 40 days. So it took 4x more time than usual.
Today I have received postcard CN-3415155. It needed 310 days to reach me!
There is a postal seal that it was missent to Hong Kong. That is reason the postcard took so long.
I received two postcards from the Philippines as well!
Both from 2020, the other one sent in March 2020, the other one maybe in September 2020.
I sent thank you message to both, but they have not been online, maybe they still get email, hopefully.
I’m feeling happy that the mail is maybe been stored somewhere and now sent
Also I received an official postcard from Philippines sent 3 years ago!
I received the card on monday 31th July 2023. Very beautiful card btw.
I could not register it of course, but luckily I get to know the sender. I sent my thanks to him by a message, which he has got and answered.
When I received the card I was wondering why the postmark was printed in July 2020. I thought the year was wrongly printed
I would not have believed such a long travelling times if it had not happened to me.
I meant to send a postcard from Italy in march, while travelling through. Run into some trouble with finding a postoffice/box at an Airport and forgot about it. Frankly, I was quite certain I mailed it with the rest of the ones I wrote and an other one I mailed back then never arrived.
I just found it today and I feel so bad !! Posting it tonight, 227 days later…
At 365 days, Expired cards are removed from the system, disappearing from the sender and recipient accounts. There is no way to access those from day 366 - gone.
I think this is discussed in several topics, coming up every now and then, here one:
where someones remembered it’s to lighten the servers.
I remember it too being discussed, and that it’s not that much that travel over the year and are registered. (But I think this was a few years ago, situation might have changed.)
And the limit just needs to be somewhere, if a limit is done, so here it’s a year.