You know that the ink gets invisible with heat?
And not only heat also as time goes by it gets more and more invisible.
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Sadly that’s the downside, but the only time I’ve had any text disappear from heat, it was when I left letters in the car in 115 F. Also, putting the paper in the freezer for 10-15 minutes helps restore enough of the ink that’s it’s legible.
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Given that almost every single postcard I write is not written in my mother language… Yes, I commit thousands of mistakes. And most of the postcards I receive have mistakes for the same reason.
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I am righthanded, but I have the same problem. I usually write the address right side up, then flip the postcard 90 degrees and write the message. Maybe you can do something similar?
Earlier this year, I finished several cards and realized that I had written 2020 for the date.
I crossed it out and wrote “NO!!!” 
Sometimes do the same for other errors and write “oops”.
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I recently drew the address of a member named Olaf. As I was writing “Dear Olaf” I thought to myself “I had better not spell Olav with a ‘v’” and moments later sighed internally when I saw I had, in fact, just written Olav with a ‘v’. Since it was in permanent ink, I had no choice but to turn the ‘v’ into the wonkiest ‘f’ I’d ever seen and hope Olaf-with-an-f has a sense of humour about it.
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Hello, Olaf-with-an-f here, and no, I didn’t think it was the least bit funny at all.
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I just cross away. I haven’t had correction tape or liquid in a long time and I tend to make a mess with them, and I have no patience so I just cross and carry on. I am unable to make things look pretty anyway so it doesn’t look that much worse than it would without that 
I usually have too many things I want to write so sometimes my brain travels faster than my hand.
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If I do a mistake, I improvise. Sometimes draw something on it, sometimes use any sticker,. washi tape or white out corector to use. If I do a mistake with address, i put over it a white label and write it again.
But when the text disappeared e. g. in a letterbox on a hot day, USPS cannot read the address and the addressee cannot read your message.
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I use stickers on the mistake but sadly my last two postcards had a misspelling mistakes hahaha so sorry… English not my native lenguage and I feel so secure writing English that I found the mistake when I read again my message 
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Excellent idea!!
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[Squints suspiciously at username]
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Nothing to be suspicious about, it’s really me, Olav. Excuse me, I mean Olaf.
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Ha, your feeble attempt to fool me makes me Olaugh!
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Hello, Olaf here again. “Olaugh,” is that some sort of Swiss thing?
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Oh no, we Swiss never laugh. How many Swiss does it take to change a lightbulb?
One. We are efficient and we have no sense of humour.
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We use liquid paper
Have you ever tried white out? That’s what I do. I have used white acrylic paint as a las resort though lol
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