We all are so different, we live in different parts of the world, but we are united by a common wonderful hobby!
Sending a new postcard is often like a small quest: explore the page, choose a suitable postcard, write kind words. Sometimes the quest is complicated by a blank profile, and sometimes the postcrosser’s wishes make you smile Someone asks you to use a pen of a certain color, someone prefers postcards in envelopes, someone asks to enclose a dried plant, someone asks to cut a box of national sweets to the size of a postcard or to send any postcard, but of a certain color.
Before Postcrossing, I had no idea that people had such an interest in fruit stickers! I now think twice when peeling them off my apples and tossing them into the trash. I love the idea, though–some are quite cute and show regional varietals of sweet treats!
Someone recently asked on their profile what color of pen you were. I went for purple and asked them what color they were as well. They said they were blue.
I tend to ignore requests for non postcard items unless it is something like a fruit sticker or bus ticket that can be affixed to the card itself. Nowadays most places don’t have physical bus tickets, it’s all electronic or with a reloadable card. When I do go somewhere with physical bus tickets, I always save them for Postcrossers who request it!
I do love weird and unusual requests for postcard themes though. I have amassed a huge variety of postcards over the years and have fulfilled some unusual and very specific requests. I had a card of the hydropower station under Snoqualmie Falls which I bought on a trip out to Snoqualmie which sat in my box of blank cards for about six years before I drew a profile that requested hydropower stations! I was overjoyed to finally send that card.
I’ve also had requests for the Fremont Troll and for Kurt Cobain specifically – both are from my city so I was able to fulfill those requests too.
Being able to fit those unusual and specific requests is my favorite part of Postcrossing.
Recently I pulled a profile where the user asked to see your favorite color of nail polish on the back of the postcard. I had never seen that request before and couldn’t resist sharing my favorite color with her. I love when I pull a profile with an unusual request; I can’t always fulfill them, but it is a lot of fun when I can.
No idea. But I went out and bought a bottle of rose perfume that is famous for its nuclear scent cloud just in case I ever draw a profile that asks for a spritz!
I remember one card I got which smelled like if it had fallen into a tub of perfume.
It wasn’t the perfume of my mailwoman but also not from the sender (unfortunately; as it smelled absolutely perfect for me, I had to ask ^^). The card came from Spain, was traveling around two weeks. Only that card had the smell, not the others in my mailbox.
So I think (but of course I could be wrong) it must have happened somewhere between Spain and our local mail center.
I haven’t update my profile yet, but I was planning to write something about pen colours, haha! As a visually impaired person, I can’t really see some colours (like yellow, very light green etc.) :’D
I’ve seen many times that people collect coins or teabags. I haven’t send any of them.
Someone asks you to use a pen of a certain color, someone prefers postcards in envelopes, someone asks to enclose a dried plant, someone asks to cut a box of national sweets to the size of a postcard or to send any postcard, but of a certain color.
I now think twice when peeling them off my apples and tossing them into the trash. I love the idea, though–some are quite cute and show regional varietals of sweet treats! 
I went for purple and asked them what color they were as well. They said they were blue. 
