Sorry if this has been asked before, but I wasn’t able to find an answer. What happens if one of my traveling cards is on the way to a suspended account? Will the person still be able to register the card when it arrives, or should I just plan on the card expiring?
I think someone official (@meiadeleite?) can help you for sure, but while both of your options are possible, there is also a third one.
Sometimes accounts are suspended because the address is wrong or cards don’t arrive there. In that case, the postcrossing team will register all traveling cards after some statement from the postcrosser.
Once a card I sent was registered by the Postcrossing team because the account had been deleted - I received a Hurray message explaining it to me. I think it may happen the same if the account is suspended (?)
As long as the account is suspended nothing happens with your postcard. It just travels on digitally.
If the account in question is subsequently closed, your postcard will be registered automatically as described by angelicca.
If not, the account will be reopened and the recipient can register your postcard once he’s received it.
And now I have traveling card to a suspended account. I hope the account will be deleted soon and my card is automatically registered.
This is ghostcrosser account whose last seen is 4 months ago
I have started to check the accounts of recipients. F.ex. not to send the same postcard they already have. And during July, August and September I have got several addresses belonging to recipients that have not been active for several years. It seem a bit stupid to send a postcard, when I know that no-one is going to register.
The good thing is, you don’t know it
It’s not possible to get an address to a person who has not been active for years.
It can be that they had a pause, and now came back, and it is as likely to get it registered as any other card
Here is more talk about this type of situation (expired cards to people who have not been online):
If person’s address is given then they are due a card(s). Then they have been active past 30 days. Like @S_Tuulia said they may have taken break, have had their account inactive out of various reasons (f.ex. lack of regular address or post box) etc.