Many cards in a row, all sent on the same date!

[elikoa]

That’s pretty much the only way I receive cards, but I don’t think I ever had more than 10-11 from the same day.

The mechanism is discussed at length here

Receiving more cards than you send

This is certainly not a complaint. I’m fairly new to Postcrossing and I always assumed you send a card, the recipient registers it and your name is then given to another member, who writes to you. Therefore for each card you post, you get one back. My sent/received figures were balanced at 24/24 but yesterday a whopping SIX cards arrived simultaneously. I have now received 30 but only 24 registered as sent. Quite an imbalance. Does the algorithm sometimes permit you to receive “extra” cards? P…