I’ve written a few posts about my little hobby with Postcrossing (details here and here if you want them) and I thought I’d give you an update. Since I started in November last year I’ve sent 79 postcards around the world (367,700 miles) and received 70 (332,568 miles). In the spring I added a request to my profile for the people sending me cards, asking them to add their favorite book or movie and, to date, 29 have added one or more favorites. I love receiving the postcards in the mail, but it’s extra fun when they share books and movies with me too! Here are the 29 that sent me titles
I thought some of you might like to see some of the results by country. The movie Cloud Atlas made the list twice (and the book once), and Stephen King and Haruki Murakami both show up twice. Danielle from the Netherlands hopes to be a writer someday and Nic from Great Britain is a children’s picture book editor.
The list (some countries have more than one contributor)
Australia
movie-Last Holiday
Belarus
book-Flowers for Algeron by Daniel Keyes
movie-1:1
China
book-author Haruki Murakami
movie-Titanic
Czech Republic
book-author Jenny Nowak, Fevre Dream by George RR Martin
movie-Cloud Atlas, The Host, My Sister’s Keeper, Woman in Black
Finland
book-Cider House Rules by John Irving, Looking for Alaska by John Green
movie-Dear John
Germany
book-Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Great Britain
book-Tess of d’Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy, His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
Hong Kong
movie-Toy Story 3
Japan
book-Alive by Piers Paul Read
Ireland
movie-Finding Nemo
Lithuania
book-author Haruki Murakami
movie-director Tim Burton
Netherlands
book-The Shining by Stephen King, The Shack by William Paul Young, Beyond Sleep by Willem Frederik Hermans
Poland
book-Under the Dome by Stephen King
Portugal
book-The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maughan
Russia
book-Glue by Irovine Welsh
movie-The Devil Wears Prada, Cloud Atlas
Sweden
book-Harry Potter
movie-The Hunger Games
Taiwan
movie-Life of Pi
Turkey
book-The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
Ukraine
book-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, 50 Shades trilogy by EL James, author Jules Verne
USA
book-CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Life of Pi by Yann Martel
movie-Marathon Man, My Family & Other Animals, Sweet November, The Wizard of Oz, The Producers, Dr. Strangelove, Sound of Music, Fried Green Tomatoes, actor Tom Hanks, actress Meryl Streep, Pixar movies
If you are interested in sending and receiving postcards, visit www.postcrossing.com. It’s free!
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This is fascinating! I love statistics like that. I hope you’ll do a post like this from time to time.
That’s really neat! I agree with Kathy, hope there are more posts like this.
This is so cool, Stacy!
That is awesome Stacy – how fun.
That’s really cool. So fun to meet others through this! I love it. Thanks for sharing 🙂
That is so cool Stacy, what fun getting recommendations too. Must check it out, would love to be part of it 🙂
Very fun! Thank you for sharing these with us.
Postcrossing sounds like a fun hobby. Thanks for sharing your statistics.
I think I might want to start doing this postcrossing. So awesome! How much does it cost to send postcards to foreign countries? Is it very expensive?
It’s $1.10 for every postcard no matter where it goes out of the US. The postcards are as cheap as you can find them! They make you start by sending only one or two at a time. It takes a while at first to get your first few postcards depending on where they come from. And you never know where it will be, that’s what makes it so fun! I like sending them as much as receiving them.
Thanks, Stacy! I have the site bookmarked and I’m seriously considering signing up. 🙂
How fun! Be interesting to see how these responses change over time.