Some years ago I went to a philatelic exhibition, where there were also stands of San Marino and Vatican City. Days before in a forum tag I had received a beautiful card from a person, who was a collector of Europa series stamps and was especially missing the one from Vatican City of that year.
So I thought âwhat a pity I didnât ask her for her address, or I could have sent her a card with that stamp from the Vatican standâ. Then I drew an address on postcrossing.
Guess who I picked up, out of about 800.000 people? Yeah, correct!
This should fit here I guess. I was very surprised when I registered a card today.
MY-558930 is exactly 10.000km travel distance. Like, what are the odds?
When I was little, there was a pole at each parking space that held a speaker, on a cord with a hook on it. You could remove the speaker from the pole, and it would hang on your window or door and thatâs how you would hear the movie. Then it changed to a low frequency radio station transmitted by the Drive-In, and you would just tune your radio and listen that way.
A while ago, I opened a topic about Special and/or rare animal postcards.
Four days ago, a reply was made about Florida manatees.
And today I received TWO Florida manatee cards:
Today I just received 2 perfectly sequential cards from unrelated Postcrossers in the Netherlands:
both were assigned on March 1
both were written, dated and posted on March 2
both arrived in the mail on March 16 â nothing else in my mailbox except those two cards. 100% Nederlandse post!
And they respectively travelled 4854 and 4852 miles. Only two milesâ difference in the distances!
Clearly the wise algorithm thinks I need a little more Dutch culture in my life, and that both cards should travel almost exactly the same distance to get to me
Bonjour Postcrossers.
Today I received four postcards, including 3 from Taiwan.
2 postcards have following numbers.
One has the number TW-3299382 sent on March 7th,
the other one has the number TW-3299383 sent on March 6th.
So weird and I guess very rare !!!
Actually, the person who sent TW-3299382 sent the card one day after he got your address, and I think itâs the case of some postcrossers isnât it? I havenât received many cards, but the last time I received a card that was written more than three weeks after the person had obtained my address.
But itâs cool that you received three postcards from Taiwan on the same day!
Receiving following numbers isnât that rare, I would say it happens quite often, I get them many times a year. They just donât always arrive on the same day so you donât notice it always.
That was my first thought too, but if you follow the links to the postcardâs pages you can see, that the systemâs sent dates indeed are in a weird order. These have nothing to do with the date, on which the sender actually sent the card. @paulo can you explain, how this can happen? Would be interesting to learn.
Maybe try checking again tomorrow at the same time of the day: it might be your browser doing some weird timezone conversion from the time element that exists on the page. Anyhow, on the database side of things, all looks good and what is shown on the page (not necessarily on the tooltip to you) is correct.
Every other post is about consecutive numbers 
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