I don’t think so. It happened to me too, in both ways:
Once I received a card where the user told me it’s the 3rd attempt. Infact at least one of the other cards arrived months later.
And at the moment two cards of mine are travelling to a reliable forum member and none of them arrived so far (Germany, 4 months).
It’s not always the recipient or the sender, there are so many factors on the journey.
Depending on how serious the problems are…
For example, if I were seriously ill in the hospital, I don’t want to be confronted with “problems” like postcards…
But that’s my opinion and of course anybody is free to do what they think it’ll be the best way.
I had a similar experience. Didn’t mind though. The postcards were a similar style but not identical and the messages were both kind, polite and unique (if brief) on each card. They’re 5 ID numbers apart 2----62 and 2----67. I don’t think I’d want it to happen a lot though, especially if it’s becoming a chore to the sender to keep up with sending all the cards.
I also don’t mind too much receiving cards from pets. Done right they’re a lot of fun. My first one was from a cat and it straight up made me laugh even before I realised it was from a cat!
A plant though. Dunno.
I have sent postcards to a single account multiple times though. The first one expired and as far as I know never arrived. Sacrificed to the Posties’ gods I guess. But later on I got an address and reading it felt very familiar so I looked up my Expired list and it was the same username! I mentioned the first card on the second but I was more surprised that I got their address twice than anything else.
small children who are learning to read and write I’m okay with sending things to. I try to pick out something colourful or cute to send and tell them about the picture to use it as a learning experience. I do the same when I draw a classroom account, though usually there I’ll get a big envelope/satchel and put in extra things like newspaper liftouts - I have a bunch about the moon landing from the anniversary and a big panorama of the Adelaide CBD.
I got one from Gordon too! Later I also got one from his mummy and I think the dog too.
Generally speaking most profiles I’ve come across that say “don’t send me X” are usually things like “Please don’t send me R rated things” or “don’t send me bugs/snakes because they scare me”, which is fine by me.
I don’t think I’ve ever come across a profile that went along the lines of “only send me this” and if I did I’d probably ignore that and send what I want anyway, which is what the guidelines say isn’t it? My own profile the only thing I ask people not to send me is pictures of their kids. Had that happen to me once and it still makes me deeply uncomfortable to think about.
I got my first multiple account Postcrosser! I recognized it because most of the profile blurb is written the same way. Both accounts have sent more than 1,000 cards each and are based out of China. Perhaps they did it because of the slow postal system there
From the guidelines: “If you mention which postcards you like in your profile, keep in mind that others are not obliged to send you a postcard that matches your preferences.”
It is not forbidden to mention likes or dislikes, it’s just up to the sender what they send
If the wishes are written like demands, one has to expect that they will not be fulfilled at all: “You can not make demands about what you want or don’t want to receive.”
But you should be aware of phobias, so this could be a reason why people wish not to receive certain postcard themes. But not everyone wants to mention this in their profile. Which is understandable because there are unfortunately people who then send something like that on purpose - we had already read about that here.
Postcard likes and dislikes tell us something about the member…for example I have flowers and nature likes on my profile because I love to grow flowers and be outside as much as possible. I am a cat owner and list cat cards in my profile wishlist. I teach Native American classes at University and include Indigenous cards on my wishlist.
I assume most people’s likes/dislikes reveals something about themselves…
At a meetup I and other participant were going to write postcard to a person whose address was drawn by each of us in advance.
Then we found the person has the same name. I thought at first it was very very common name in his (her?) country. But also the adress was the same! Thinking it was really a surprise and we wrote a message on the same card and also wrote each ID of us. (So two IDs are written on the card. Whatever it is suitable or not.)
Let’s say the person’s name is James-san.
Some days later I got “Hurray! message” that James-san received our card. But James-san registered only my ID. I wondered if James-san missed to see another ID. But the ID of another participant was registered in other account.
It means, James-san had two different account.
By the way it’s very simple question: why some people make multiple accounts like this James-san do? (not for his/her family like children or pet) Because his/her slots was run out and want to receive more cards?
If you both drew an address, this person deserved to receive two cards and not one with 2 IDs. Therefore, only one ID should be registered and another card should be sent.
I suppose people do it because they want to send and receive more cards.
It was not a nice experiment. Because it makes the receiver confuse to find two postcard IDs and then the person might think that you and the other person want to cheat by sending one less card.
People have many reason for owning multiple accounts. What you think could be one of the reason.
Since the experiment is now over, please be fair and send the 2nd card to which the user is entitled.
After all, you both agreed to send the recipient a card before drawing the address.
And you have not fulfilled this obligation.
Today, I pulled an account from Germany. This Postcrosser says in their profile that they have 2 other accounts, which they listed the names of. I checked the profile on all 3 accounts and they all say the exact same thing. Why would someone have 3 accounts? Doesn’t make sense to me. What is the motivation behind this? To get more cards?
Yes, to send and receive more cards. I think it’s because Postcrossing’s slot system is very slow initially for new members, so people circumvent that by creating another account.
