Indeed, there was an awkward silence as she read my postcards, I thought any second now I’ll expect the ‘Spanish Inquisition’ on why I am sending postcards with fancy stamps to far flung places in the world. She was kind of rude and I wasn’t in the mood to explain postcrossing to her.
I know with postcards, somewhere along the line in the mail stream it’s going to briefly be read. But to do it right under you nose, urrggh
I no longer use that Post Office, I have a nicer relationship with a PO team nearer to my work who stock special issue stamps, and look forward to seeing the stamps I use on my postcards.
My postie never asks. I think I will tell him to kill his curiosity. My mailbox is huge so I used to leave all my outgoing mail. But now I just cross the street and leave my outgoing postcards in the post office for privacy purpose.
I love hearing all these stories. As I’ve also been working from home since last year, I’ve now had the opportunity to meet my postie, he often rings the bell to deliver a package, so I get to say hello at least once a week. So I asked what he thought about my postcards and he said they liked delivering them as it made a change from what’s mostly bills and junk mail these days, and he clearly seemed to be familiar with postcrossing too. And I have also received one or two misdirected local postcards which I was able to hand deliver to their rightful recipients.
I get other people’s postcards sometimes in my mailbox too. If it was just delivered I will run after the mailman and give it back. But yesterday I got someone’s card and couldnt catch the mailman anymore. Checked the address and I saw it on the way i usually walk when going to the city. So I walked down today and delivered the postcard myself!
Today I watched the mailman stop at my house. He checked both his postbags confused… checked again, just to be sure…no cards… both me and him disappointed
I live in an apartment complex. Since I join (too) many RR and tags I almost always have postcards and there is almost always a stack in the outgoing box. My mailman has never mentioned it but once a neighbor received a stack of my cards and since we usually pick up mail at the same time the neighbor brought me my stack. I often wonder after a very busy weekend what the postman thinks when he opens the outgoing mail bin and it is full of postcards.
I recently moved into an apartment complex, and occasionally I see the mail man come thought. He definitely remarked that he noticed a lot of postcards I receive, and that made my day. So I think he is aware, and he think it is cool, since I send out a number of postcards.
I live in an apartment building, and in order for the postman to put mail in my mailbox, he needs to go to the common entrance. So I gave him the key to the intercom. But postmen change frequently and do not always pass on the key to the next colleague. So sometimes I have to make an extra key and hand it over to the new postman.
I don’t know what they think of my postcards, but the postman who works now is just terrible. At summer he left my mail three times on the street near the entrance door. I’m sure some of the postcards were lost. I spoke to him, he assured me that he had the key and that he put postcards in my mailbox. Either he lied, or he is a genius in confusion. Anyway, I had to get a PO Box because I don’t want my mail to get lost or get caught in rain and snow
I believe he hates me I don’t have a car so I don’t get to pick the stamps out I put this envelope in the mail and
Then the post Office put the stamps on for me.
My Postman said to me one day, with curios face: whoo are you? Why all that letters and postcards from different places and people!??? I laughed a lot and i explained him that i’m an happy postcrosser😂.
Two addresses ago, when I was home with my baby - who is now 6 -, I ran into the mailman regularly. And once he asked me how many languages I actually speak because of all the countries I got postcards from …
My mailman frequently sends all postcards in the area to me… even ones that are quite a few blocks away. I resend them by local mail to the affected blocks if they are too far for me to walk to
That happens a lot to me as well. I live in a tiny town and i get the most postcards i am sure. I also deliver mail here i love to see others get postcards and i look to see if they are getting official swaps or not. I think one other person in town is in postcrossing but most of the postcards are kids to relatives or people on vacation. Clerks and carriers do get a kick out of seeing postal art or really neat stamps but a lot of times we are too busy to really take notice.
He doesn’t hate you… he gets paid more for the time it takes to serve you that way. rural carriers are a post office on wheels, we exist so that you do not have to go to the post office. You can also request a bunch of stamps ahead of time with that same envelope. And choose pretty stamps and have them mailed to you on usps dot com.
I once met one of them directly while delivering and they said “You always get so many beautiful postcards. I look at all of them. Just the front, though.” And I thought that was really adorable. And it makes their day a bit brighter too
I think they know about postcrossing. It is written on most cards and they can see the postcard IDs besides the address. And it’s related to their work, existing for many years. I think they know.
I took my WPD cards to the post office this morning and neither clerk was familiar with Postcrossing, so it was a nice opportunity to tell them. I don’t think anyone else in my town participates so they probably wonder why they have so many cards in the drop box!
I’m sure some of the postcards were lost. I spoke to him, he assured me that he had the key and that he put postcards in my mailbox. Either he lied, or he is a genius in confusion. Anyway, I had to get a PO Box because I don’t want my mail to get lost or get caught in rain and snow 
i love to see others get postcards and i look to see if they are getting official swaps or not. I think one other person in town is in postcrossing but most of the postcards are kids to relatives or people on vacation. Clerks and carriers do get a kick out of seeing postal art or really neat stamps but a lot of times we are too busy to really take notice.