I shared this postcrossing coincidence with my family and received polite nods. So happy to share it with other postcrosseers.
A few weeks ago I received 2 postcards on the same day. One from Belarus and the other from China. In my profile I have a few writing prompts, including ‘your favourite quote’. Both postcards had a quote from Dumbledore!!! I love Harry Potter, but I don’t mention it in my profile.
Two friends of mine, also postcrossers, went on vacation to Bali. They are from Belgium and I’m from the Netherlands. We met several times in real life. Of course they sent me cards from Bali, but - surprise - one of them was an official !! Imagine; you’re on vacation, you’ve set your profile in travel mode, you draw an address and… you get one of a someone you know in person !
A year ago I received a postcard from Ireland showing The Wild Atlantic Way. Today I was giving a class and one of the pictures in the textbook looked familiar… You guessed it - it was the same scene
Regarding birthday and Australia, today I got an address of Australian user who asks for a birthday card for his mom who is 100 years old this year. What a coincidence
Today, I have received two cards from a different city/country than the respective sender lives in (mismatch of country and ID, something I am okay with) - and I have been to both places myself already
Recently I decide to take part in Weekly RR for a first time.
After I was added to group and was given ad adresses of participants I had noticed that one person in group is the same person to whom I sent postcard 3 weeks ago! His name was drawing by algorythm of PC.
I think it’s very funny although a little strange
As said one personage in Mordor: That’s a coincidence? I don’t think so! Совпадение? Не думаю!
Today I have two things to write. One is an official postcard to someone whose username is an obscure prime minister (not a UK prime minister) that I had never even heard of. The second is to someone who won a lottery I ran on the forum. The street she lives on is named after this exact same prime minister! The two people live in completely different countries, France and Russia. I couldn’t believe it. I had to double check. What a strangely connected world we live in.
some weeks ago the day before a meetup i drew 15 consecutive ids and no one of them was to russia.
though i switched off the repeated countries option and italy can send to russia normally i found it strange because i often send officially to russia anyway
Today I received 3 postcards from Taiwan with very similar numbers.
All written by 15-year-old students, I think they drew my address during one class. On each card, the same stamp, the text is formulated in a similar way but written by different people
I take it very positively