I agree with this, there’s a reason for not having multiple profiles and Postcrossing explains why here on the website. Plus the sender is now using two of their slots at the same time for the same person. Maybe they can write the cards as Part 1 and Part 2 
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A peculiar thing happened today.
I received 3 postcards from Taiwan (what are the odds? I have only received 45 cards).
All written as if by 3 different persons - somewhat different hand writing, different pens.
Similarities: all cards have the exact same stamp, all have the postcard ID written right below my address, and when I registered them, it was the first postcard sent by all users.
The IDs end in 83, 84 and 88. 83 and 84 registered on PC on the exact same date, have been online the exact number of days ago, their postcards were issued by the same website and both used tipp-ex.
I think it is highly likely that at least 83 and 84 are the same person. Anything I should do? Or just be happy for them that they now sent 3 multiple cards? 
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My thought is that they would be 3 students from a school. Taiwan seems to specialise in having all members of a school class sign up to Postcrossing. That would explain the similarities, if the students are being taught for example, how to address a card. It would also explain the consecutive numbers.
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It’s just a possibility but somebody did mention that Postcrossing is used a lot in classes in a far eastern country (it might have been Taiwan, I don’t remember.) Which would explain the accounts all being opened at the same time. So it could be classmates who drew your address together.
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yeah that makes sense. quite often when your address goes into the pool it’s not once (like it’s suppose to) but (way) more. and a class probably request addresses at the same time so they all got the same person first in line. i think for a class that might happen a lot?
i think it’s a cool coincidence. i once got a bunch of cards from a class from taiwan as well. they all made their own photo’s and told what they were doing that day, i loved it.
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Right that makes sense! 
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Some time ago I received three cards with same id, from a class. The teacher contacted me first, if I could let them know when each card arrives.
I admit I don’t like the extra work, to remember messaging, but luckily all arrived at once. But, two of the cards were the same, message same or almost same, only names were different. One card was another view of that same place. I understand every one wants to write a card and I do prefer that the teacher keeps an account instead of all starting their own, but now I feel that they sent the cards, but not all get a card back. Also, why isn’t the teacher checking that the same person gets at least different images when the message is so same 
But I guess it’s common to have this kind of school task there, I have received many cards mentioning that. (Also made me nervous seeing a school project profile, because few to such expired - that’s why I prefer that one person monitors it.)
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I’d like some perspective from Postcrossing users regarding my particular issue. I just pulled an address to send a postcard. However, I have some reservations.
Their profile looked familiar, and I discovered that I had sent a postcard to the same user last year who had the exact same worded profile as the address that I pulled today. A quick search revealed that this user has not two, but three accounts!
I thought it was against Postcrossing’s rules to have more than one account. It takes away from the Postcrossing experience by having to send another postcard to the same user, with the potential that I could draw this person’s name yet again in the future.
I can understand if the person wants a more active Postcrossing experience, but the three accounts have almost ten thousand postcards in total. The priority here is collection without regard for their fellow users.
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I have sent five times to same person.
This should be one time exchange, and now I’ve sent to same person five cards, I feel like I’m stupid, writing to them and writing and writing and writing and writing. It’s like one sided penpalling.
I think the intention is to have one account, but it’s too hard to control who has many accounts, so it’s “tolerated”.
Once I was writing cards and got the same person three times! So when I went to mail my card, I was having three different cards in my hands going to the same person. And previously I had sent twice to this one.
All these accounts had over 1000 sent, and wanted many series cards. I wrote my last Flag of the World card to them, and then thought, did I already write this to them, and yes 
I would have much rather saved it to someone else.
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So there’s no consequence for Postcrossing users with multiple accounts?
It does feel like “one sided penpalling”.
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As long as they maintain every account, there are no consequences. And honestly, why should it? It’s not welcome, but it’s not forbidden either. If you now start with one person and close all accounts except one, then to be fair you have to check every other user as well and delete all other accounts of them except one.
Many users are annoyed or bored when someone has multiple accounts. But there are also users who don’t care at all or find it funny.
If you have the feeling that this is a second or even third account, then just take the next best card, write a few standard sentences and you’re done. Tick off. No one is asking you to put in the greatest effort. Postcard, write, done
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Because it causes problems and is seen wrong, so why then not delete then. (From the help section: “It (keeping multiple profiles) also creates imbalances in the address selection system, which is unfair to other members.”)
I think if one is “caught” and their other profiles are deleted, they still can keep one. That’s nice, and fair, right.`
In my opinion it would be ok to delete the multiple profiles each time they appear, no need to search all of them at the same time. It is even warned that these accounts can be deleted without warning:
“Postcrossing monitors the project for multiple accounts held by a single person, and we reserve the right to delete any such accounts without warning.”
When keeping multiple profiles causes unfairness to other members, why we should put the fairness towards a multiple profiler before that? The multiple profiler knows their profile can be deleted. They know it’s strongly discouraged to keep many, so it’s fair enough to me.
It has happened I sent a series card, and the receiver sold it to someone, and the buyer had looked up my profile, then they got my address, and wrote something like “I know what you do for living”, which can be meant as fun, but to me it feels almost like a threat.
Later I thought, it is very likely it was one of the series collector multiple profiler, but now I can’t check the times.
If it’s a normal member, I like to fullfill wishes, but if they would be honest about their multiple profiles, I would send only one series card, and the others, well, other cards, not something to sell, not caring about my privacy.
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I think at that time when I wanted to write cards, and got the same person three times, it wasn’t funny, but later I have thought: I wish I had seen my face then trying to figure out is this now the new profile I got, or why is it all the same again 
(Still I prefer one profile for one person, to prevent confusion. Very easily I could have also thought, I sent there, and take another profile, and not notice it actually was a different/new profile.)
Edit, and if/when they don’t care at all, then of course it’s ok to remove everything so that everyone has one profile (but I know it’s “impossible” to do, and that is the main reason these are tolerated)
so multiple profiles aren’t allowed because some doesn’t care of think it’s funny
Would anyone be complaining if the person with multiple profiles lived in Vanuatu or Sierra Leone? (Discuss.)
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Maybe even more, if the mail is extra slow there, and the member used all their free slots to the same person?
(And then wait two months, and get the same dude again )
But perhaps the ones who sends to country or thinks a country more, than a person, Vanuatu would be nicer Netherlands for example.
I don’t think I have ever had the same person twice. Is it that common? I would think it would be more likely to get more than one student from the same school with a Postcrossing project.
Hard to say how common it is, but I would say more common than is thought.
Sometimes members are open about it, and give a link to their another profile (I like that, so I don’t send the same card).
Sometimes they don’t tell they are a multi profilers, and complain people send the same message in every card
For me it has been more common than get the same school students.
But it happens randomly, like sometimes I seem to get persons who like homemade cards, sometimes “projects”, sometimes children etc. (of course because people tend to spot similarities).
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@Johnk60 Happened to me yesterday. I immediately recognised the profile because I already sent a postcard to this user last year and both profiles are identical. Takes the fun out of it for me.
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Once I drew the same address twice.
There were two profiles.
One for a man
The other for a cat
On the second card I would ask why the person has duplicate accounts.
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