Do You Send Post Cards?

Thanks! I like those statistics

This is a pet peeve of my family's as I have been known to stop at a post office just to mail postcards to get the cancellation while we are on vacation. They almost left me in Hawaii 8 years ago, but I got some great cancels. Now that the kids are grown and out of the house it is one of those things that they can tell stories about.... "remember when we were on vacation and Dad stopped at every post office in Florida?". I still send myself postcards and have many friends and co-workers (past and present)that send me postcards. I still get a couple postcards a year from a friend I have not seen in at a dozen years. Many friends that are not stamp collectors even go to the trouble of going in the post office and getting a hand cancel. I am honored that they take the time to do so. I will never get tired of it.

So David, can I send you a postcard or postal card? I will go to a small post office and get a hand cancel.

I also collect stamps more than cards. What I do is after a certain amount of Postcrossing cards arrive, I go through them. Those with interesting cards, cancels, or stamps, stay in one piece. Those cards I don't like, I cut off the stamp and soak them.

I'd like to, but I don't have many people to bother with my postcards, and none of them send me any(they think texting me is good enough, although I never touch my phone).
Being from Florida, I was turned off from postcards for a while, all the ones I would see were in tourist shops, and not very good. Considering a city with the growth and size of Orlando, the images on them were still a 1980's skyline which I find appalling.
Lately, I've rediscovered decent post cards in small towns or museum exhibits that look extremely nice.

Aside from whining that people think sending me easily deletable blurry images on a phone is better than a card, I don't know what more to do than buy two of every type I like, mail one and keep one.

And yes, I do feel iffy about having my address on the postcrossing site. I've looked at that a few times prior to posting on this forum. Does my name get sent with the address? I don't feel secure giving name and address overseas. Then there's the part of my last name being a recognizable ethnicity that isn't liked in some parts of the globe.
If they only give out my address, and some random serial number, I may reconsider, as it had sounded fun.

I think you can set up your address with something other than your full name. I have sent cards to people with the oddest "names" listed!

Yes, you can hide your name or just abbreviate it. I did that already.

When I travel I send postcards to work for posting on our team board. Others have started doing too when I issued the challenge "who has been the furthest?". Mykonos, Greece stood for a long time. Then my manager sent one from India! It is fun.

My wife and I send postcards back to the house when we travel so we can put them in our "Places We Have Been" stamp collection. I keep stamps in my wallet for that purpose.

I am annoyed that so many postcards arrive with damage. And I wish USPS would make a FOREVER rate postcard stamp.

I used to mail postcards all the time, then I just bought them and never got around to mailing them. I still buy them for myself with an ocassional duplicate to mail (but don't).
I miss getting postcards, but then I am also part of the problem, since I don't send them!
Resolution: next trip I'm bring stamps and my address book and I'm going to send some postcards!
I'm also considering signing up at postcrossing.

You should do!

Postcrossing is really nice. I received many nice postcards since I joined 6 years ago. I did also many private swaps and joined tags in their forum. Also I've met great letter friends in their forum. Times passes and people stop writing but I still keep some few ones.

By the way, out of Postcrossing I rarely send postcards, only for few pen-friends or grandmother. In my last trip I sent postcards to other family members but they didn't care so... :oÞ But I bought a lot of high quality ones for me.

PostXing has really rung my bell, so I've started substituting postcards (and the occasional letter) for eMails.

"Tangible is the new black." - me

I also recently 'designed' a postcard, featuring a grandchild (below).

For folks who have trouble finding good cards, take a look at the relevant PostXing forum:

http://forum.postcrossing.com/forum....php?fid=148 ... Where To Get Postcards

Note that the threads break-down geographically by country, eg:

http://forum.postcrossing.com/viewt...hp?tid=81323 ... Where To Get Postcards USA

And, of course:

http://forum.postcrossing.com/viewt...hp?tid=80666 ... Where To Get Postcards OnLine

The kid stays on task, eh?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Some folks scan every inbound & outbound postcard, upload them to their 'walls', select favorites ...

I've never done any of those things, but I do write a nice thank you note to each send when I enter the card ID number, thus registering the card.

YMMV.

I send about 40 postcards out a month to advise members of an organization of meetings. Each month I search for a patriotic image on Google images, download and have 4x6 photos made. I the run these photos thru my printer to print message, apply an address label and a 37c stamp and mail. I rarely get a post card or a letter that is not advertisement.

I rarely send them but I have got quite a few this year. 7 to be exact. mostly with images of the Grateful Dead art, Bob Dylan and C.S.N.&Y ...Mostly musical themed cards from my Cousin J.J.Blair ("Singer at large") in San Francisco, Ca.