This is so easy to pick up on, too. I was watching the Canadian curlers at the Olympics, and they where constantly thanking each other for saying things like ‘good shot’, where most others would probably just move on as it’s something said all the time between team mates! 
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Why not then?
Many people who like cats, like dogs too.
@PatriciaOH something similar what happened to you in CZ, happens to me when i get into Ubers in the United States. The drivers often ask to verify your name and they ask me are you Enrique and I say yes and they start the ride and sometimes the driver will change the music on the radio to reggaeton like Bad Bunny, J Balvin, Rauw Alejandro or something artist like that. They change it on their own and I kinda chuckle inside. I don’t say anything. I let them just drive, but all the while Im laughing inside. They probably think because Im Spanish I must like this type of music. I could take it or leave it. I just think its really funny. Most the drivers are foreign so I think they do it to be “polite” and try to make me comfortable to what they think i like to listen to. In all honestly, while Im in Uber rides, I zone out and concentrate on reading Forum posts. Lol.
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I agree up to a certain point. However, they could have written: “Please, write your profile in English.”
Bad English skills do not justify or explain impoliteness. 
I think it exactly does explain and justifies 
If you don’t know it’s something you must do in every occassion, you don’t.
And even if you do, you can forget.
(My point simplified was:
Person A does something “wrong”
Person B tells what they should do (and it’s easy).
to me that would be over and done with.
But no, appears person C and writes about it in the forum, where no one really knows what the person B wrote in reality, and why. Instead people see this person B doing something wrong. Does the poor people B even know they are written about?)
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We don’t have a lot of choices either where I live. There are not even tourist views available. But there’s a solution to everything. I’ve made my own tourist cards with photographs of a semi-professional (and his consent) on smartphoto.com which also specialises in sturdy cards. I have ordered a lot of postcard boxes online (Amazon, eBay, Abebooks, …) and even bought some second hand and can now nearly always fulfill a wish. You have very specific boxes (Star Wars, Harry Potter, …) but also ones you can use for general topics (The New Yorker, It’s Cool, National Parks, …). And even though around 20$ may seem expensive, it’s actually quite cheap if you know you have 50-100 cards for that price. And who knows, maybe you come across a box you like so much, you’d want to collect all the cards yourself. In that case, join Postcard Box/Set Request Tag or to get more (and with some follow-up) Postcard Set RR. To find out about some amazing postcard boxes (and believe me, there are many more), I suggest a peek here Postcard Box Directory. I hope this has helped you find more postcards.
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… and write “the dog has just eaten a black cat” on the backside… 
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Well, yes you have a point there. 
Great idea 
The writer of the profile chose rudeness by not writing it in English! For me it is rude, respectless and arrogant to have the profile not in English!
If I cannot read a profile, I would write something like “I am sorry, but I cannot read your profile, please write it in English” on the card.
I have drawn some profiles being solely in German, my mothertongue, and after getting the hurray-message I offered them to translate their profile. They were really happy, so obviously they did not want to be rude, but, from my point of view, they were.
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Without knowing the inflection, that please could be seen as equally rude, as if you’re saying they’re stupid. So it becomes more like ‘For f*** sake, write your profile in English’.
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If I come across a very demanding (and not much more than a wishlist-) profile on the official site, and cannot fulfill their wishes, then I’m sometimes tempted to send them a ‘bottom of the pile’-card from one of my boxes.
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What’s PC’s official attitude towards sending a blank card in relation to certain rows? It already happens between users.
I have a friend who’s a driver for those services, I forget if it’s uber or lyft, and he has playlists for certain times of day, different holidays, and different types of people as well. But there will be people who don’t fit those groups always – he might be playing energetic music and they would rather quiet, or he might choose country music and you might really like rap. I’m a middle-aged white lady for example and my preferred genre is k-pop so he would probably not choose right for me!
You don’t have to write anything on any card, except address and ID. It’s entirely up to you.
If you mean a blank front: as long as it’s a postcard, not just a blank piece of paper, I’m not sure anyone could fault you on that either. But I wouldn’t think you could find a blank-fronted postcard anywhere.
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Appreciated for the answer! I mean the back side and I asked this because I read ‘write a friendly message’ in the PC’s instruction. Therefore I wonder whether not writing anything is a violation.
In my distant youth, I seem to recall blank postcards sold by the Post Office that had domestic postcard postage included? These days, you can get blank postcard (stock) for printing your own image on the front.
From the official site: * All postcards you receive will be written and stamped. Postcrossing is not to collect blank postcards as there is always some communication (in the postcard) from the sender to the receiver.
The idea to send postcard is to send it with a message, short or long.
But there are some people who prefer their cards blank, without any text and ask for it, then it’s up to you what you want to do. And when swapping with someone, you do what you both agree.
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They exist and I remember using them as a child. It looks like a postcard but one side is for the address and the other is blank for the message. It has a different name in Czech though I guess English would call them both postcards.
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There’s no denying that users do this anyway, that’s why I think an official interpretation would be useful.
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