Yes, looks like all active. But could be Covid, holidays etc., so lack of staff to deal with the post.
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German postcards usually take about a week, but I have had them take 142 days! One to India took 300 days.
So don’t give up hope, I’m sure it will get there. It does look like postcards to Germany are taking longer at the moment.
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I really do understand about all the reasons, i think I’m just so excited and impatient 
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I know how you feel!
That’s why I asked the question in the first place, wondering why postcards are taking so long at the moment.
The 7 expired postcards at the moment does not help. Although I’ve had a couple registered in the last couple of weeks, one that took 92 days and the other 194 days, so I always hope they will get there in the end.
Hopefully yours will get there soon.
Good news, just had an update to say my postcard to Belarus has arrived!
Still no German cards have arrived.
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Quite a few cards are taking longer than usual for me, including Germany. I used to have them arrive from Canada between 5-8 days. Now, two weeks or longer, and 3 have expired. Never before in my 2+ years have German cards expired. I have a whopping 16 cards expired - not all German, of course. 
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I’m wondering if it isn’t low staffing during peak vacation period?
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I’ve just resent an expired German card and the new card has traveled for two weeks already. The recipient seems active but I guess they could log in while on their summer holidays.
Exactly the same here - 16 expired, 3 of them to Germany.
Actually, this is all quite reassuring. Many of us, wherever we live in the world, are experiencing the same sorts of slowdowns. It’s not me who’s doing something wrong, but something to do with the international mail system.
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When our mailman went on holiday this year, PostNL just didn’t deliver our mail (in the neighbourhood) for 2 weeks. 
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Yes, for my local Mail Centre & Delivery Office this is the case.
I personally have not noticed any difference in time for sending postcards, but for recieveing…
Well I’m not normally at home when the postie delivers, but in the last couple of weeks, I am only getting mail twice a week, A big thud of rubber banded bundle postcards on the door mat delivered by an agency worker in t-shirt, shorts and a yellow Hi-Vis.
It wouldn’t suprise me with the recent heatwaves, that mail processing and deliveries have been affected.
The summer holidays aslo sees the lowest levels of letters, so most will be on holiday.
Plus, not to mention the looming strike action at the end of the month and in September 
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I thought my 7 expired was bad, but 16, that’s a lot!
When I’ve picked what I think is a great postcard for someone and it does not arrive, it’s very annoying/upsetting when it expires.
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Wow! So they just thought you could wait for two week? That’s bad.
Where I am there are two regular posties, so never seem to have a problem if one of them is on holiday, the other one covers, doing a longer round.
There are some problems within Germany currently. Many users say they only receive mail 1-3 times per week (instead of 6). Seems as holidays + covid infections decimated the working force of Deutsche Post. It should get better again once the summer holidays are over 
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My received postcards have been pretty good recently, Japan, Singapore, USA postcards all received in about 7 days, which I thought was pretty good.
Thank you for letting us know about the situation in Germany, could explain why postcards are taking much longer.
Germany postcards usually arrive in less than a week, but I have a few that are now at 15 days.
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The Royal Mail are definitely struggling with something. I had a first class letter from the hospital take a month to arrive a few weeks ago.
Wouldn’t be too big a deal but the specialist was advising me to stop a medication! Luckily I survived. It does make me wonder what unintended damage postal delays do to ordinary people.
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Funnily enough, last month, 2 of my fastest arriving postcards were to countries that I wouldn’t expect - a postcard I sent to India was registered at 7 days and, get this, one I sent to Thailand took just 5 days! (It looks like 6 days in my figures, but I posted it a day after I got the address.)
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None of my postcards are being registered & i’m not sure what to do?
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Unfortunately, I think you have to wait for your traveling cards to be registered or until some of them are expired, so you can have new slots
Cards might be registered slower these months because people are gone for holidays, not to mention that there are less deliveries as well because posties might be having holidays too 
, extreme weather, covid restrictions, messy international flights due to peak holiday season could be factors to consider of why mails are slower too
You can always join tags and RR games on the forum if you want to send and receive cards without slot limits
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