I have never been a big collector, but Postcrossing and Swap-bot have got me working on a postcard collection!
Postcrossing works in a unique way. You request to send a postcard, and when your partner receives your postcard, your address is then given to someone who requests an address to send a postcard, and you receive a postcard from a surprise location in the world. It is really exciting finding postcards on the doormat from unexpected locations!
So far, I have received these two postcards:
This one is a wonderful native American image from Seattle. It travelled 7,538km in 9 days!
This came from Winnipeg, Canada. It travelled 6,150km in 16 days.
And I have sent this one to Ukraine that has been received:
It took 24 days to travel 1,711km! It takes forever to travel across Europe!
And I have this one travelling 1,973km to Russia:
The recipient of this one loves boats so I sent her a postcard of the Arctic Corsair. Since Hull has such a rich shipping history it would be wrong to not send one!
This one is on its way to China, travelling 7,996km!:
The recipient of this one likes postcards of flowers or unusual paintings so I sent her a postcard of a painting of flowers that is in my local art gallery.
Postcrossing also gives you the option to do direct swaps. This is when you contact a member directly and arrange a swap between you. I was contacted by a member from Turkey, who wanted to arrange a direct swap. He sent me this postcard of his town clock tower:
and in return I sent this postcard of my university:
I have also taken part in some postcard swaps on Swap-bot. I have taken part in the Envelope with 5 Wonderful New Cards and I received these from Victoria in Ukraine:
As you can see, I was sent six instead of five! I love the blue one and the Eiffel Tower one! Victoria noticed that I liked cross stitch on my profile so she set up a private cross stitch kit swap between us. I am still waiting for it to arrive in the post.
I also took part in the 5 Non-Toursity Postcard Swap and received these from Vronica from Netherlands:
I love the cat and the penguins!
These are all of the postcards that I have received so far. I even went and bought a special album to keep them all in:
I love the world landmarks on it and I thought it would be ideal for all of my postcard and letters that I get from my swaps!
I have also picked up some postcards that I have picked myself to add to my collection but I will share these in a later post.
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What a nice collection you have going there. The post cards are lovely and I’ll bet you are having fun sending and receiving. The album is perfect to store you collection in.
It is great fun to come home and find them waiting for me…especially as I don’t know where they will be coming from! I’m thrilled with the album! It was reduced because it was ‘damaged’ (not noticeably at all) and I have a 20% off voucher so it only cost me £5 instead of £20!
This sounds fascinating, I love the idea of connecting with people.
Yeah it’s a great way of being introduced to people all over the world! And you get some lovely postcards in the process too 🙂
I love your postcards. I am also a postcard collector. Its a great way to learn about other countries.
-Joyce (Devgel)
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HiJoyce! I agree, it is a great way to picture other countries and to hear what life is like there first hand!
Hi, greetings!
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Thank you! 🙂
These are lovely, thank you for sharing it with us!
Hi, I’m from Indonesia. I collect university postcard do you still have it? If you want to swap, please contact me via email. Thanks a lot.
Hello. Sorry for the late reply, I just moved recently and it has taken a while to get the internet up and running and back into blogging. I can have a look if I have any of the university postcards left if you like and are still interested!