Thursday, 12 April 2012

Post crossings

I found this website, Postcrossing, last night and was immediately hooked.

What you do is send a postcard and get one in return.  Then you scan the postcard into your computer (or take a photo with your handy-dandy digital camera) and add it to the website.  The project is world-wide and I'm sending postcards out to Russia, Scotland, and Germany this week-end.  I hand-made my postcards, but obviously you don't have to do that.  Glancing through their database, it seems as though most people simply buy them.  But honestly, whichever kind I receive, I'll be just as happy. I've always loved this sort of thing.  I enjoy learning about other cultures, travelling, seeing how people in different cities and countries live, and getting a simple postcard in the post has always been a thrill.

Postcard to Russia.  The recipient said she likes flowers.

I also discovered two other sites that have to do with the post.  One is A Month of Letters Challenge, and the other is 52 Weeks of Mail.  I'd like to participate in both of them, but I haven't enough people (or enough money for postage!) to commit to sending something out every day for a month, so I'm going to opt in for the once a week for a year deal.  A friend of mine in Australia is going to help out, but perhaps some of my regular readers might want to participate, too.

I was thinking maybe we could get a list going and rotate through it.  One week would see the first person on the list receiving things from everyone else, and then the next person would be inundated with letters and cards the next week, and so on and so forth.  It would be kind of neat if we could arrange it so that people got things on or near their birthdays and maybe the letters or cards or whatever featured their favourite colours, or animals, or holiday spot, or dream vacation destination.

Postcard to Scotland.

Anyway, if you're interested in signing up, just send me a quick email and we'll get the list started.  We can start in May.

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