Why don’t they do it like the cards from Korea and take Italy as aim? - See thread “Conquest of Italy”. It is not so hot there.
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It was handled by a reverse Google, this time turning ftom wrong to right!
You remember how Google translated your Nickname.
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Well, they weren’t literally stuck to each other. All three postcards were in a plastic bag, but since only the postcard addressed to me was visible, it was sent to me. I didn’t realize there were two other cards until I opened the plastic bag.
They’re clearly trying to avoid the crowds at the Fontana di Trevi.
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Same! I sent 5 postcards with carefully chosen matching postage stamps from a regular Royal Mail postbox outside Dukes’s Hotel in Mayfair, London, England.
Not a single one arrived to their destinations for months! (destined for USA, France, Germany). When they finally arrived 6 months later, they all had a large, non-removable white label over the beautiful stamps, that showed they had all been routed to the Philippines! Also, the word “London” on the postcard had been blacked out with heavy marker.
Absolutely no idea why any of this happened, but I am grateful they eventually made it to their original destinations.
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Are you sure that your stamps were from Royal Mail?
Or did you buy stamps from Global Mail?
I remember that was a topic in the old forum saying that Global Mail has pretty stamps, cheaper than Royal Mail, sold in shops and that Royal Mail gives mail to Global Mail if there is a Global Mail stamp on it and Global Mail sends international mail via the Philippines for it is cheaper.
Royal Mail stamps show a profile of the young Queen Elisabeth II, was it on the stamps?
Edit:
I found the original thread in the old forum, it was started by ChristianJ: Postcrossing (Legacy) Forum - [UK] Universal Mail service
Edit: Universal Mail was the name of zhe cpmpany.
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Oh! Thank you, @RalfH ! You have solved the mystery. They were apparently “Universal Mail” stamps sold to me in a shop along with the postcards. I had no idea they were treated differently.
They were similar to these:
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Omg 
I would’ve been anxious about them the whole time I’m glad they made it in the end.
Glad we got an explanation from RalfH too.
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I once mailed a postcard home to the UK from New Zealand at the $2 postcard rate back in early 2015, it arrived eight weeks later with a Brunei - “incorrect postage paid/delayed in transit” postmark - the first time I had ever experienced or seen that, not seen one since. 
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Once, a postcard I sent to Japan from the US arrived with a stamp saying it had been misrouted to Jamaica. That’s the only one I know of.
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Anxious about postcards? You worry me!
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Hehe. I must admit I am always concerned about what I send out. Every so often I think ‘has it arrived safely?’
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Hey, they are just postcards! Lovely ones, pretty ones, but still just postcards, not kids! 
If someone is going to send kids by mail, I hope (s)he turns to a shrink before!
Could you imagine kids being lost and sent to other countries first?
‘It’s been 9 months and still no child!’
Not by mail! Please not!!!
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Every postcard and mails I received from Bangladesh have all tagged as “Missent to Thailand”. This does not only happened to me as another one from the Philippines have all got “Missent to Thailand” from Bangladesh as well. Makes you wonder what’s going on with their postal service.
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See it positive: You got a card from Bangladesh, a quite rare country!
Maybe their post gets routed? And then it ends up there? Since it’s not just you experiencing this.
Totally off topic but thank you for telling this. I’ve been wondering why it takes AGES to receive the cards with these stamps. Last two times when I’ve been in England I’ve used these stamps and the cards arrived to Finland after 1-2 months.
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If Czech Post works the same way as German Post, on your Registration Receipt there should be a code for the letter destination (in Germany the ISO code, AU for Australia or AT for Austria). If they do, you can check if the clerk made a mistake or if it happened at a later stage.
A common reason for these far-off missents is that the large sorting machines for international mail some countries (like Germany) use have the boxes not sorted by alphabet or by the area in the world but by expected number of mail - the high-number destinations get the places easiest to access, to speed up the process. So if a card drops accidentally in the next box from the intended one, that can be a destination totally off from the one intended.
Those are not British Royal Mail stamps. As @RalfH said, they all have a bust of the reigning king/queen on them: https://colnect.com/de/stamps/list/country/224-Großbritannien/year/2020
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