# Back By Popular Demand! The Fall 2015 Postcard Exhange **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387 "2015-09-08T22:42:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/101 "2015-10-08T13:44:15Z")
Sorry for the delay – real life interfered! My cards went out today on the post. Hope they make it to their destinations very soon! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/102 "2015-10-08T14:23:47Z")
My cards went out yesterday! ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/103 "2015-10-08T14:24:36Z")
Well, pickles and onions. ☹ I sent my cards on Sept. 26, and it seems like none have arrived! Not surprising for the international ones, but I’d think at least one state-side postie would have made it by now. Stupid USPS! ---
**Author:** ![Anaglyph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anaglyph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaglyph)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/104 "2015-10-08T15:02:47Z")
> [@Grrlbrarian](#): > > Well, pickles and onions. ☹ I sent my cards on Sept. 26, and it seems like none have arrived! Not surprising for the international ones, but I’d think at least one state-side postie would have made it by now. Stupid USPS! Pssst, Grrlbrarian! Check post #68! ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/105 "2015-10-08T16:42:01Z")
> [@Grrlbrarian](#): > > Well, pickles and onions. ☹ I sent my cards on Sept. 26, and it seems like none have arrived! Not surprising for the international ones, but I’d think at least one state-side postie would have made it by now. Stupid USPS! Nay, nay, I say! I received my fabulous Bigfoot card (see my post #47) and Anaglyph reported receiving one from you (see her post #68). Don’t know about the others, though . . . Edit: Oops, ninja’d by **Anaglyph**. Read all the posts in thread before responding, **jayrey**. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/106 "2015-10-08T16:55:38Z")
In the mail yesterday: a card from **Karen Lingel** showing off UC Berkeley’s Sather Tower. Thanks! Her note says the tower celebrated it’s 100th B-day last weekend and she got a free hat and cupcake. If I had known I would’ve driven up to join the festivities! ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/107 "2015-10-08T18:00:34Z")
A lovely postcard today from the lovely Anaglyph. It shows Broken Arch in Arches National Park, Utah. I’ve been to Utah, but only to Salt Lake City to do genealogy at the library, so I haven’t really seen anything. It looks beautiful in the countryside. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/108 "2015-10-08T18:52:15Z")
> [@Atomic\_Mama](#): > > I’m still “not quite done” in mailing out my cards … more later as time permits. > > Apologies to all for my pokiness ☹ I’m glad I’n not the only one! Apologies to everyone, but I had a family emergency while out of town. Mine go out in tomorrow’s mail pickup. I have received a wonderful card from **EinsteinsHund** showing architecture, statuary, and monuments from his area in Germany. Thank you! I have also received a packet from **blondebear** with a card showing some of the lesser-known attractions around Santa Cruz, and a fold-out from 1984 about the currently still unfinished [Crazy Horse Memorial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Horse_Memorial). So cool!!! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/109 "2015-10-08T21:31:31Z")
Got two cards from foreign climes today: –a great picture of a Swedish troll playing hopscotch sent by **anaglyph** , who notes that my username would be entirely appropriate for a Scandinavian troll (true too); –a picture of some cool street art in Australia, photograph taken and card created and sent by **pw6163**. The weather there is similar to here, or at least the weather there then was/is similar to the weather here now. Which makes no sense, but you know what I mean- Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/110 "2015-10-08T21:58:25Z")
I forgot to mention that I got a card from **Anaglyph** that can be broken up into a domino set, but I don’t think I will do that! Thanks very much! ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/111 "2015-10-09T04:00:31Z")
I got a well-traveled postcard today of the St. Louis Gateway Arch from **Anaglyph** in Switzerland. That postcard is almost better-traveled than I am. Thanks, Anaglyph! ---
**Author:** ![Anaglyph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anaglyph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaglyph)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/112 "2015-10-09T06:34:06Z")
From **IvoryTowerDenizen** I received a card showing the different stages in the life of [Pieris brassicae](https://www.google.ch/search?hl=de&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1627&bih=1269&q=Kohlweisslinf&oq=Kohlweisslinf&gs_l=img.3...1812.5748.0.6428.13.12.0.1.1.0.44.488.12.12.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..1.12.447.OQifIkiSpJ0#hl=de&tbm=isch&q=Pieris+brassicae), (which my computer immediately autocorrected to “Piers brassiere”). No, we are not talking about Pier wearing a bra, but about a Butterfly that in German is called “Grosser Kohlweissling” and whose caterpillar preferentially feed on cabbages. Thanks for the nice and informative card, **IvoryTowerDenizen** ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/113 "2015-10-09T15:54:11Z")
> [@jayrey](#): > > Nay, nay, I say! I received my fabulous Bigfoot card (see my post #47) and Anaglyph reported receiving one from you (see her post #68). Don’t know about the others, though . . . > > Edit: Oops, ninja’d by **Anaglyph**. Read all the posts in thread before responding, **jayrey**. Nuts! I don’t know how I missed seeing those. Silenus mentioned he got my postie in #46 too. I either need more sleep or less sugar or something. :eek: Also, I got a lovely card from **Anaglyph** yesterday! Thank you SO much. I love all the virtual travels that our postcard exchanges permit me 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/114 "2015-10-09T19:30:10Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > I got a well-traveled postcard today of the St. Louis Gateway Arch from **Anaglyph** in Switzerland. That postcard is almost better-traveled than I am. Thanks, Anaglyph! LOL… I see the St Louis arch every day from the windows at my new job. I DID NOT get in/enter this Fall 2015 round but I was in the Summer 2015 round…somehow **Anaglyph** got my name and sent me a card…from Fort With TX via Switzerland. 🙂 **Anaglyph** , I will get you a reciprocal card in the mail ASAP, let me see what I can dig up. TSFR ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/115 "2015-10-09T20:47:23Z")
**Anaglyph** is out in force! Today’s mail brought me the documentation to file for unemployment (I was happy to be laid off), a rebate check from Zeiss for some bird watching binoculars my son purchased, a bank statement from an account I have in another state, and a card! The card is of City Hall and Liberty place in Philadelphia - a great contrast of history and modernity in a single shot. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/116 "2015-10-09T22:08:09Z")
Another trip to the mailbox…and look, there’s a postcard from **jayrey**. Yay! This one’s a historical shot of Salem Oregon’s Old Capitol and a statue “…believed to be a memorial to the Spanish American War.” Wait a minute…“_believed_” to be? It’s a statue in front of the State Capitol building…you’d think they would know what the statue was supposed to stand for. I was in Salem back in May on my Oregon road trip. I liked Riverfront Park with it’s old merry-go-round and the [Eco Earth Globe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-Earth_Globe). ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/117 "2015-10-10T02:40:24Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Another trip to the mailbox…and look, there’s a postcard from **jayrey**. Yay! > > This one’s a historical shot of Salem Oregon’s Old Capitol and a statue “…believed to be a memorial to the Spanish American War.” Wait a minute…“_believed_” to be? It’s a statue in front of the State Capitol building…you’d think they would know what the statue was supposed to stand for. > > I was in Salem back in May on my Oregon road trip. I liked Riverfront Park with it’s old merry-go-round and the [Eco Earth Globe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-Earth_Globe). What!?! You were in town and didn’t stop by to say Hi!? I’m hurt. 😃 If you come this way again, along with visiting me, you should make a side trip to Albany, just a few miles south, to see the amazing carousel that the community is building. The carvers have an open workshop where you can go it and watch them work. Very cool! Got some good postcards there. Glad you like the card! ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/118 "2015-10-10T02:46:28Z")
I continue to score in the postcard department, with three more arriving today. A very interesting architectural design one from **Algher** , a beautiful view of the UC Berkeley campus and “campanile” from **Karen Lingel** , and a cool windjammer under full sail from **Ulf the Unwashed**. Thank you, all! ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/119 "2015-10-10T11:45:06Z")
Another two postcards have arrived over the past few days! A lenticular one from **needscoffee** , which has endlessly fascinated my kids, and one of a Frank Lloyd Wright building in Rockford, IL from **Pai325** , which looks very pretty. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387/120 "2015-10-10T14:45:13Z")
Got a nice B&W postcard from **jayrey** two days ago, showing the stately Marion County, Ore. courthouse c. 1903. Yesterday, got a card from **Karen Lingel** of the lofty Sather Tower at UC Berkeley, which, she wrote, celebrated the bell tower’s centennial just this week. My thanks to you both! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-by-popular-demand-the-fall-2015-postcard-exhange/730387.md?page=7)