Postcrossing

[Suky]

I have just discovered this activity via a scrapbooking site and wondered if anyone on here does it?
For those who don't know it (I had to google it) -you sign up to the post crossing site with your name and address and send and receive postcards all over the world. There is no other contact, you are given a name and address, my first one is in Russia,send them a card and you get one from someone else, somewhere else.
Can't wait to see where my first card comes from.

[snohare]

Do you write anything other than the address on these postcards ? Is it a way to encourage snail mail penfriends ?

[Florence Fennel]

Don't really get it Suky Good for philat philat stamp collectors?

[snohare]

I can see why it would be popular, getting postcards showing all sorts of sights and sites, from who knows where next. But how does the system work - what decides who sends to whom, and how often ? I'm wondering if the first crossposter in Ulan Bator will become the most sought after...while someone in Lesser Tumbleweed, Boondock County, will wait forever for a card.

[bearded bloke]

Or as it was called in days of yore ...... chain mail

[Suky]

No, it's not chain mail, you don't get to decide who to send to. The site randomly select another user for you to send to and you can write whatever you like on the card - pehaps a bit about yourself, your hobbies, the town where you live or just why you chose the card. The reciever does not send a card back or send your card on, the card you get will come from another randomly chosen member. It's just an interesting way to find out about other people and get exotic postcards, my posty will be so curious, he's everso nosy
This post wasn't so much a way to get you all interested as to try and find out if anyone here was already involved.

[snohare]

This post wasn't so much a way to get you all interested as to try and find out if anyone here was already involved.

You never know, it may be on the cards...!

[Florence Fennel]

Ahh, see what you mean Suky, not heard of that before.

[snohare]

I have done post crossing, but the image that springs to my mind is very different to the one that Suky will have....I erect fences as a hobby.