Thursday, July 02, 2009

993 days, 335 sent & 322 received cards later

I dare make a note on Postcrossing:
Firstly, because it brightens up my days, even more so recently!
Secondly, cause I'm not really certain why, but Postcrossing seems to have become of interest only marginally in Romania [current country of residence :)], with merely 200 users. Now, I'm not really sure why things are so, but I think they can change :)
So here's a briefing:

About Postcrossing
What is Postcrossing?

In short: the objective of Postcrossing is to allow people to exchange postcards via mail (real mail, not email) with random postcrossers from around the world. Oh, and it is absolutely free, meaning, if you send a postcard, you will receive one back from another random user (and sometimes, another one from the person you wrote to).

How does Postcrossing work?

It goes like this:

1. You register yourself on the website. You will need to provide your postal address so that you can receive postcards.
2. You request to send a postcard. An address is displayed along with the member's profile. This address will be accompanied by a Postcard ID - a unique code that identifies your postcard.
3. Choose a postcard, write something nice on it along with the assigned Postcard ID, and mail it to the address you were given.
4. Wait, wait, wait. :-)
5. Hoorray! The card arrives to its destination and is registered by the user! Now you too will receive a postcard!

For more details, please check the About section. If you still have questions, give us a shout!

Need I add that Postcrossing's been keeping me company over almost 1000 days and 3 countries now? ... and that it's been created from scratch by my good Portuguese friend Paulo? :)
So get them postcards rollin'!

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1 Comments:

At 1:57 PM, Anonymous Paulo said...

I'm flattered - thanks! Happy Postcrossing! ;)

 

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