Interesting article for all you USA people....

I saw this today and thought it was interesting. If you get a chance, you should read it: http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/life/13-things-your-mail-carrier-won-t-tell-you-2445111/

Finally, an update.

I've been slammed with school and then busy at home so I haven't had a chance to update this for awhile. I've gotten some awesome new received postcards and some new ones for my private collection. I'll update first with my favorite received postcards and then do another post later with the new postcards for my private collection.


DE-723249 I love huskies and the user wrote the nicest message on the back. Totally made my day.


FI-918631 Yay for Christmas postcards!


FI-923504 Snow scene with a Christmas tree in the front.


DE-721575 Mailboxes!


JP-131486 I just thought that something about this was very pretty.

It's been awhile...

It's been awhile since I updated this. I've been super busy with school and taking care of my 7 and 1/2 month old daughter so this obviously wasn't a priority.

I've decided against posting every received card in here. If people really want to see my received cards, they can go to my postcrossing profile and look at them. I figure I'll use this to talk about my obsession with all things related to postcards and postcrossing!

I swear, I can't go anywhere without buying postcards! Last Thursday, my husband, daughter and I went to Hurricane Ridge which is part of the Olympic National Park. They of course had lots of postcards to choose from so I bought some. I wanted to buy more, but they're more expensive than other places (50 cents a card) so I only got the ones I really liked. Then on Sunday, we all drove up to Neah Bay and Cape Flattery. When we stopped in Port Angeles at Safeway for something to drink, I found more postcards so I quickly bought some. I've scanned these in so when I send them to people, I can upload them on postcrossing. I don't upload everything I buy though. Only the postcards I buy in multiples or spend a lot of money on. I'm trying not to buy too many because I have so many to send out! My mother-in-law buys me postcards when she travels so I have postcards from other places to send out as well.

I also went and bought stamps today. I think I'm going to order more online so I can get some cool regular mail stamps. I wish international postcard stamps weren't so expensive!

First Entry into Postcrossing Blog Land

I've been a part of postcrossing.com for 592 days (as of this posting.) I love sending and receiving mail. I always try to send a card that is on the user's requested or favorites list. I hope that when someone gets my card, it puts a smile on their face because when I get a card, it puts a smile on my face.

For the last few months I've been scanning and uploading my received cards onto flickr 1 and flickr 2. Since I've already scanned and posted all of those, I'm not going to go through all my cards and post them on here. Starting today, I will start posting my new received cards on here for those who are interested in seeing them.

For more about me, feel free to check out my postcrossing profile here.