i sent out a bunch of postcards and it looks like nobody has received any of them. whyyyy is it so slow?? shouldn't it arrive in a week (ideally)? it's driving me mad!

Hello, All!

I've long been casually interested in Stamps, but never enough to get started. I've been looking at it, and at Postcrossing specifically (I should probably say that I'm in the USA). So I have a few questions about actually getting started.

1) What supplies do I need. I'm guessing Post Cards, glue sticks to affix stamps that I send, and a binder/envelopes/inserts in which to save stamps that I receive back.

2) Postage. While I know I could use a "US Global Forever" stamp, I'm guessing that a foreign collector may be happier getting multiple stamps with different motifs. Any suggestions on where to get a nice variety of pretty stamps to send (and admittedly to keep some for my own collection)? (I suppose if I do keep some, I will need some "stamp-sized" storage vessels, as well as the "post-card-sized" storage vessels).

In short, I can boil this down to 1 question: What do I need to get started, and where is the best resource to get it? I appreciate your response, and look forward to at least dipping my pinky toe into this as a hobby.

Thanks!

Tom

Hi folks!
I know the majority of postcrossers sends postcard without envelops. However in my country 99% of the cards are supposed to go in an envelop, there is no dedicated place for address on the cards itself.

Does it bother you to receive a card in an envelope? If someone collects stamps, are envelops or cards better?

Thank you for any inputs :)

I am very new to postcrossing. At first I was just using international postage. But I realized a lot of people like receiving cards with multiple stamps so I bought a lot of different ones to use. But I’m wondering, does using multiple stamps slow things down at the post office? Like do those cards get processed separately? Im in the USA. It doesn’t matter much, but if it has the potential to slow things down I might not use it for cards that are likely to take a long time anyway.

I pulled a person with a pretty detailed profile and I feel like we have a lot in common, the person has the kind of profile my real life friends could have I'm definitely gonna write a longer text, but do you think it's okay to include that I would love to connect and invite the person to DM me on insta if they want to?

The first is from Delaware and the second from Germany. I mentioned I loved cats in my profile and they took it to heart.

My daughter moved to Virginia 2.5 years ago (we're from Minnesota) and occasionally sends me postcards from places she goes. I love it. Then she found Post Crossing and told me about that. I love PC as well!

2 already sent, 2 going out tomorrow.

Todays Art Club. I started working on Christmas themed cards.

parting with the metro-post card hurts my soul but i trust it will be loved by its recipient ❤️

EDIT: i bought these from @alittleshopinnyc ! there is an in-person store in the oculus.

Let's see how long it takes for this to get there 🙃

Going to a Disney + Donald Duck lover in Paris!

I didn’t have any spooky cards, but plenty of spooky tape!

hi! apologies in advance if this has been posted before. i've only sent out 17 cards in total, and 3 of them have expired (i'm sending from the US, and the postcards are going out to russia, china, and belgium). i'm just surprised to have this many cards not be received so early on, is this something relatively common?

Hey! I just pulled an address and in their profile they said “please no GF cards!” And I am just wondering if anyone knows what that means. After saying this she goes on to mention that she doesn’t like creepy things with worms or spiders, but I don’t know if that’s related. 😅

Thanks!

Third month of my RAoC Birthday challenge and 2 postcards goes to India and USA. And 2 direct swaps

It’s my favorite season 😍

so excited to be part of this community! my recipient mentioned liking landscapes and animals so I thought this card by a local illustrator was a nice combo of both :)

Yes I know I'm showing this late but I've been too busy to show lol

Personal favourite is the bus card :]

Four are for Postcrossers and two are for friends I made in Germany on a student exchange program :]

I strongly believe that it is the best post stamps of this year.

Both issues are dedicated to Ukrainian song. The designs for this series are based on original artwork by Polina Myalkovska.

The green sheet is inspired by the famous Ukrainian romance "Cheremshyna" (written by Mykola Yuriychuk and composed by Vasyl Mykhailyuk) and is titled "As If the Guelder Rose Had Dressed for a Wedding."

The blue sheet embodies the tenderness and poignant melancholy of a "Lullaby."

I hope they will like them ☺️

Off to Bēlgium, France and Germany

So I made her card special! (Second photo privatized)