If you donāt know itās something you must do in every occassion, you donāt.
And even if you do, you can forget.
(My point simplified was:
Person A does something āwrongā
Person B tells what they should do (and itās 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?)
We donāt have a lot of choices either where I live. There are not even tourist views available. But thereās a solution to everything. Iāve 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, ā¦) and even bought some second hand and can now nearly always fulfill a wish. You have very specific boxes (Star Wars, Harry Potter, ā¦) but also ones you can use for general topics (The New Yorker, Itās Cool, National Parks, ā¦). And even though around 20$ may seem expensive, itās 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, youād 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.
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 āI am sorry, but I cannot read your profile, please write it in Englishā 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.
Without knowing the inflection, that please could be seen as equally rude, as if youāre saying theyāre stupid. So it becomes more like āFor f*** sake, write your profile in Englishā.
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 Iām sometimes tempted to send them a ābottom of the pileā-card from one of my boxes.
I have a friend whoās a driver for those services, I forget if itās 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 donāt fit those groups always ā he might be playing energetic music and they would rather quiet, or he might choose country music and you might really like rap. Iām a middle-aged white lady for example and my preferred genre is k-pop so he would probably not choose right for me!
You donāt have to write anything on any card, except address and ID. Itās entirely up to you.
If you mean a blank front: as long as itās a postcard, not just a blank piece of paper, Iām not sure anyone could fault you on that either. But I wouldnāt think you could find a blank-fronted postcard anywhere.
Appreciated for the answer! I mean the back side and I asked this because I read āwrite a friendly messageā in the PCās 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 itās up to you what you want to do. And when swapping with someone, you do what you both agree.
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.
Written just means that you canāt expect blank cards you can then use yourself. Putting an address and a stamp on makes it written. For situations like this I think the best way to go is with the old adage āIf you canāt say anything nice, say nothing at allā, and I suspect thatās what Postcrossing means too; if you do write a message, keep it nice. The only thing you have to do in Postcrossing is send the card, they canāt force you to write anything more than strictly necessary.
Well, itās already mentioned many times on official site, hereās one more. Do you have an idea how it should be mentioned? Maybe there should be a postcrossing law #1: Write a message on your card!!!
The title is used as a reminder to not forget the basics so the postcard is able to reach the recipient and be registered, BUT the whole paragraph does ask to write a message on a card.
