# 2011 Summer Postcard Exchange **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 20, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613 "2011-05-20T19:59:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/121 "2011-06-16T03:04:21Z")
Le grève, more like. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/122 "2011-06-16T14:56:26Z")
As of this post: 24 of 25 participants have confirmed mailing of postcards by June 15th 37 postcards have been reported as received 16 unique senders 19 unique recipients The following senders have all 3 of their cards reported as received: Algher Anya marie Arrogance Ex Machina Elendil’s Heir Labtrash melodyharmonius ScareyFaerie VunderBob ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/123 "2011-06-16T14:59:51Z")
> [@ScareyFaerie](#): > > Three postcards sent but none received. Royal Mail clearly doesn’t love me… > > :taps foot more impatiently than **Elendil’s Heir** : > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Another day without a Doper postcard. Le sigh. I am happy to report that you both should be receiving a postcard soon if all reportings are true. However, you both are also victims of the Canadian mail strike ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/124 "2011-06-16T16:15:08Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I’ve put my three in the post box on a street corner, but no idea when anyone will be by to pick them up. Canada Post has responded to the rotating strikes by a cross-Canada lockout, which means that **ShelliBean, Anya marie & Tapioca dextrin** may be waiting a while … But that just means that later I’ll get mail when I least expect it! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/125 "2011-06-16T16:20:04Z")
And none of the ones I sent have turned up yet. Maybe next week. I hope it’s worth the wait. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/126 "2011-06-16T17:29:45Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Le grève, more like. :: golf clap :: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Blue-Sighted_Shadow)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/127 "2011-06-19T05:57:04Z")
I received an Ohio postcard from \*\*gardentraveler \*\*today. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/128 "2011-06-19T14:05:34Z")
Well, there’s rumours that the federal gov’t will introduce back-to-work legislation soon, to force Canada Post and the Union into binding arbitration and restore services. However, the [NDP Opposition will likely filibuster the bill](http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Collective+bargaining+rights+risk/4970876/story.html). So, all we can say is, “the postcards are in the mail.” And wait. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/129 "2011-06-19T18:07:31Z")
I have been cleaning out boxes and found a post card from around 2006 or 2007. It was from… dbygawdcapn! We are fated to send postcards to one another! ---
**Author:** ![Butterscotch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@Butterscotch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Butterscotch)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/130 "2011-06-19T19:27:37Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > I am happy to report that you both should be receiving a postcard soon if all reportings are true. However, you both are also victims of the Canadian mail strike ☹ And both at the mercy of Poste Italia… Oh, AND I received a card from **ShelliBean** thank you! ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/131 "2011-06-19T19:53:05Z")
Sorry to Sunspace, MsRobyn and Future\_londonite, you are also victims of the Canadian mail strike. I sent mine on June 9 but I guess that wasn’t quite long enough for them to miss the strike. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/132 "2011-06-19T21:38:59Z")
**Shadow** , VWife just dumped a pile of mail on my desk, and your card was in it. She said it was yesterday’s delivery. A cute lil ol’ note card with some posies in a coffee cup. This makes me 3 and 3 for this round, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/133 "2011-06-20T10:03:09Z")
I also just got a similiar card from **The Blue-Sighted Shadow** - that was my third received card, yay! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/134 "2011-06-20T16:51:31Z")
Yay! I came home from a long weekend away in York and found a lovely postcard from **needscoffee** all the way from Seattle. Oddly enough, it’s on our potential list of places to visit next year. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/136 "2011-06-21T17:22:13Z")
So the federal Government has introduced back-to-work legislation; NDP vows to oppose it as long as possible: [Ottawa Moves to End Postal Disruption](http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1011953--ottawa-moves-to-end-postal-disruption?bn=1). ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/137 "2011-06-21T17:25:03Z")
I received my 3rd official postcard from **gardentraveler** last night at the PO - it may have arrived sooner - i only get to the PO 2-3 times a week. I love the cut-out - at first i thought someone had bitten my postcard! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/138 "2011-06-21T19:01:15Z")
Still no postcard here other than **Algher** ’s. You can maybe see why I was so emphatic that people should mail theirs by the deadline. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/139 "2011-06-21T20:10:56Z")
Second card received while I was in Yosemite: Lovely art card from **Time Stranger** ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/140 "2011-06-21T22:37:14Z")
The Royal Mail has delivered! I lovely postcard from Jolly Old England with a drawing of [St Albans Abbey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Albans_Cathedral) as seen from the clock tower, care of **Future Londonite** (or should that name be changed now?) Love the stamp, too (Thunderbirds are GO !) !! 3 out, 3 in. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613/141 "2011-06-22T00:33:57Z")
Got my first from **Future Londonite**. How did he know I used to live in St. Albans?? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-summer-postcard-exchange/582613.md?page=8)