I’ve written about my love affair with Postcrossing a few times (here, here, and here) and while the past year I haven’t kept up with sending as many cards I love the fact that I still continue to be surprised when one pops up in my mailbox. Another great thing is that I can pick up and right where I left off and I wrote five postcards yesterday.
For every card that tells me a little about their life or just says hello because they don’t write English, there are those that tell me how their hobbies and interests intersect my own. It’s comforting to know that in this crazy world we are not all as different as we sometimes think we are. And sometimes I receive postcards like this, from strangers who bring war and conflict closer to home.
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I’ve received a few more like this from Kiev over the past year and it has definitely made me feel more connected to the people there and what it going on internationally. Interestingly, I’ve received more postcards from Russia and it is never mentioned.
These are the countries I received cards from and the average length of time it took for them to get to me.
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Postcards by country
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Country Received Avg travel (Received) 1 
Australia 5 8 days 2 Belarus 12 27 days 3 Belgium 1 6 days 4 Brazil 1 92 days 5 Canada 1 10 days 6 China 10 24 days 7 Czech Republic 5 15 days 8 Dominican Republic 1 45 days 9 Estonia 2 10 days 10 Finland 8 9 days 11 France 2 54 days 12 Germany 28 14 days 13 Hong Kong 5 14 days 14 Iceland 1 14 days 15 India 3 11 days 16 Indonesia 1 25 days 17 Ireland 1 3 days 18 Israel 1 19 days 19 Japan 3 13 days 20 Korea (South) 2 13 days 21 Latvia 1 16 days 22 Lithuania 2 16 days 23 Morocco 1 9 days 24 Netherlands 23 10 days 25 New Zealand 2 16 days 26 Poland 9 47 days 27 Portugal 3 22 days 28 Russia 28 23 days 29 Singapore 4 12 days 30 Slovenia 2 12 days 31 Spain 5 59 days 32 Sweden 1 6 days 33 Switzerland 1 9 days 34 Taiwan 9 17 days 35 Thailand 1 14 days 36 Turkey 1 15 days 37 U.S.A. 22 12 days 38 Ukraine 11 26 days 39 United Kingdom 3 11 days Of the 222 cards I’ve only received one set of repeats.
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Appropriate, right? One is from Germany and the other from the Netherlands.If you want to keep up with the postcards I receive you can visit the blog I’ve set up, Postcarder
And if you are interesting in giving it a try yourself I can’t recommend it enough! It’s fun, easy and a cheap way to travel. Visit Postcrossing.
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