# SDMB 2012 Postcard Exchange, Round Two! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364 "2012-08-04T00:36:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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:** [August 28, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/181 "2012-08-28T04:58:29Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > So, am I the only one who still hasn’t received a card yet? :: puts up hand :: ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/182 "2012-08-28T05:05:40Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > :: puts up hand :: I thought you’d said earlier that you’d got one of a London bus under the secret protocol? I haven’t time to check back through the thread now. I’m late for a 3.00pm meeting. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/183 "2012-08-28T11:43:21Z")
Got a nifty Amsterdam card from Lady Grey in Monday’s mail. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/184 "2012-08-28T13:09:57Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > If there’s enough interest, sure! **Sunspace** suggested that the sign-up should be in early September - how does Labour Day sound? If we have a sending deadline later in the month–say, Sept. 15th or so, that would be better. Many people (incliuding me!) are moving and starting school. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/185 "2012-08-28T15:42:28Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > That’s odd - you were on \*\*Algher’s \*\* list for Round 1. 😕 Hence the “Bonus Card” comment. I had extras and dropped one to all the addresses I had. I tried to avoid confusion with the Bonus Card comment. I am worried now about postage, and I hope all of mine make it. I’m in Chicago through Friday, won’t be able to update until then if I received my third. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/186 "2012-08-28T16:45:22Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > I thought you’d said earlier that you’d got one of a London bus under the secret protocol? > > I haven’t time to check back through the thread now. I’m late for a 3.00pm meeting. Whoops you’re right! Up late with a sick boyo and it slipped my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/187 "2012-08-28T16:55:22Z")
YAY! I got my third card **+** a bonus card … both in yesterday’s mail 🙂 Thank you, Northern Piper, who sent me a photo of the Saskatchewan Legislature w/garden – very handsome. I will have to look at my maps to see if I’ve been in the neighborhood (we drove from Alaska to Maine via Canada, in 2011). VERY nice stamps, too. The BONUS card is the Watson Drug & Soda Fountain / Orange, CA, from Algher. And yet ANOTHER “Hawaii Aloha shirt” stamp – they’re really popular! Thanks to all, and I’m looking forward to ROUND THREE. Half the fun is finding the weird postcards ! ---
**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:** [August 28, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/188 "2012-08-28T17:47:28Z")
I got a lovely card from **gardentraveler** today, it is a spectacular view of Columbus on a summer evening. I know it’s spectacular because it says so on the card! Thanks, **gt**! I am sorry but I won’t be able to participate in Round 3, I am on holiday (LA and San Francisco) from 3rd-21st September so I will have almost no email/net access and won’t be able to send any cards. Of course, I will be able to buy loads on my travels and stock up for future rounds. Does buying cards from places you visit contravene the rules in some way? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FrancisCastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/189 "2012-08-28T19:12:42Z")
> [@Atomic\_Mama](#): > > 8/27 UPDATE: Got my second card last Friday (I think. I been busy lately 🙂 A very pretty abstract flower thingy, with a wonderful Hawaii Aloha Shirt stamp, from “Francis Castle” … who is? What’s your Doper name? Thanks! The zip code means the card was mailed from Wisconsin … I am FrancisCastle. 🙂 Seems like this is my first received card this round. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/190 "2012-08-28T19:18:30Z")
I got my last postcard from FrancisCastle! Seems there were no postcards to be had so one was improvised. 😃 I posted it in the flickr group. And this one too had the infamous aloha stamp. Of my postcards that I sent, one was the first of all to arrive, and one still hasn’t shown up. Weird. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/191 "2012-08-28T22:22:56Z")
Got a beautiful Canadian card from Sunspace today ! That’s two! Attempting to put them on the Flickr page now… ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/192 "2012-08-28T22:53:13Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > If we have a sending deadline later in the month–say, Sept. 15th or so, that would be better. Many people (incliuding me!) are moving and starting school. Another vote for a delayed deadline for the third round. I’ve got some leave coming up (I think I’m going skiing), so I won’t be online a lot. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/193 "2012-08-28T23:05:39Z")
> [@Atomic\_Mama](#): > > Thank you, Northern Piper, who sent me a photo of the Saskatchewan Legislature w/garden – very handsome. I will have to look at my maps to see if I’ve been in the neighborhood (we drove from Alaska to Maine via Canada, in 2011). VERY nice stamps, too. Glad it got there and that you like it. The photo is a bit outdated - the gardens have gone through a major reno for the Queen’s Jubilee, and there’s also now a statute of Her Majesty on a horse named Burmese, which the RCMP gave to her many years ago and which was apparently her favourite horse. I sent an e-mail to the post card company and they actually replied that they would do an updated one! If I see it in the future, I’ll send it to you! Odds are, though, that you took the Yellowhead via Saskatoon - it angles north-west -\> south-east from Edmonton to Winnipeg. Regina is on the Trans-Canada, which runs straight east-west in these parts. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/194 "2012-08-29T10:26:31Z")
**Jackpot!** I just got home from work and discovered two cards in my box. One is from \*\*silenus \*\*and shows a rather quirky, old-fashioned orange box. The other is from **anya marie**. It has a picture of an Amish buggy, complete with horse (which also looks to be the theme of the stamp on \*\*silenus’ \*\*card). Thank you both! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/195 "2012-08-29T13:04:27Z")
I got my last card last night from \*\*Northern Piper[/]. It says “The Night Sky in Saskwatchewan” and is almost all pitch black, except for a crescent moon and (IIRC) a beaver in one corner, looking up at the moon. Cute! Thanks! ---
**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:** [August 29, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/196 "2012-08-29T13:12:06Z")
glad you like it - the Piper Cub picked it out personally. (it’s a gopher, by the way, the beloved pest of the prairies.) ---
**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:** [August 29, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/197 "2012-08-29T13:13:16Z")
and a lovely card of Red and Zed arrived yesterday from **jackdavinci**! painted turtles, right? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/198 "2012-08-29T13:13:55Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > glad you like it - the Piper Cub picked it out personally. (it’s a gopher, by the way, the beloved pest of the prairies.) Sorry, right, a gopher. I forgot it at home so forgot what critter it was. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/199 "2012-08-29T14:36:07Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > **Jackpot!** > > I just got home from work and discovered two cards in my box. > > One is from \*\*silenus \*\*and shows a rather quirky, old-fashioned orange box. The other is from **anya marie**. It has a picture of an Amish buggy, complete with horse (which also looks to be the theme of the stamp on \*\*silenus’ \*\*card). > > Thank you both! It’s about time! I was beginning to doubt the existence of International Post there for a bit. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/200 "2012-08-29T15:31:51Z")
I’m up for Round 3, of course, and could do so either earlier or later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364.md?page=11)