Postcrossing Spam: Update

Several weeks ago I posted about some mail I received through postcrossing.  At the recommendation of several readers, I sent a message to the admins, just an FYI that I had gotten some unusual mail from a postcrosser.

Well, I have received a response!

Hi Anne,

Sorry for the late reply, and thank you for letting us know about this.  

We'll get in touch with the user.  

Kind regards,

Ana

community manager, postcrossing.com 

~ Anne

Czech Stamp: Gerbera Daisy

I received my first postcrossing card from the Czech Republic!  It came with a lovely stamp of a gerbera daisy.

Some of my favorite stamps are stamps with flowers on them.  I previously posted a picture of some vintage flower stamps I got from etsy.

Last but not least, here's a picture I took a few weeks ago of an iris picked from our garden:

~ Anne

Expired Postcard

It seems I have my first expired postcard with Postcrossing.

I hope it arrives at its destination safely eventually!

Have you had any postcards expire? Do they arrive eventually?

~ Anne

Postcrossing Spam?

Happy Friday, everyone!

I didn't plan to post another question, but I was puzzled by the mail that was waiting for me when I got home from work today.

I've only been doing Postcrossing for two months, and I'm hoping to hear from some of the long-term postcrossers out there about something that was sent to me.

This is part of the mail sent to me by a postcrosser from Belarus:

Postcrossing letter.

Hi, my name is Alina.  We would have to share their gifts with you, the fact that I can not buy in my country some things, so maybe you could buy me things that were drawn on the sheet.  If you agree, then I will immediately be sent to you gift from Belarus, and as soon as you make sure that he will come, you could send to me.  I already did one American, we exchanged gifts with her, she sent me a mascara from America, which I very much wanted, and I gave her a gift from Belarus.  Thanks in advance.

My address is: 

(address)

On the other side of the letter is a picture of DKNY perfume and a Louis Vuitton mirror case from Sephora.

I should mention that she did include both a card and a postcard (plus a few stickers) in the envelope:

Before I register the "postcard" I want to know if this is something I should respond to in my optional message to the sender.

Have you ever gotten anything like this through Postcrossing?

Thanks :)

~Anne

Postcrossing Stats

Happy Friday, everyone!

After pondering the high number of postcards I've sent and received from the Netherlands, I decided to look up some stats on postcrossers from around the world.  Turns out it's not a fluke.  There are lots of postcrossers in the Netherlands (especially when considering the size of the country).  Of course it didn't surprise me that populous countries like Russia and China would have a high number of users.

Postcrossing Users Geographical Distribution

What impressed me more though was the number of postcards sent by members from different countries.  Over a million sent by postcrossers in four countries:

United States              1,496,169

Finland                       1,333,770

Germany                    1,265,100

Netherlands                1,129,798

I won't bore you with any more numbers.  (Can you tell I'm a math person?)  In other news, I got my first postcard from Asia (Malaysia) this week!

~Anne

Postcrossing News

This weekend a few of my postcrossing postcards reached their destination, which means I can now send 6 cards out at once!

I sent out my first postcard to Asia (China).

Here are some of the stamps I've gotten so far:

Netherlands

Netherlands

Netherlands

The Philippines

Poland

Is it just me or are there lots of postcrossers in the Netherlands?




































Still no postcards to/from Africa or South America - has anyone sent/received postcards from there?


~Anne