# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Lady\_Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Lady\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Grey)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/121 "2012-08-22T15:37:19Z")
Mine are finally posted too! Apologies for the delay, hope they’ll arrive soon! ---
**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 22, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/122 "2012-08-22T17:48:35Z")
I got a lovely card of civil war pics, all the way from sunny Virginia, courtesy of **raventhief**! ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/123 "2012-08-22T23:26:57Z")
And today, I got my third card. **FloatyGimpy** sent me a Mountie. Excellent! I said “Mountie” _snicker_ ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/124 "2012-08-23T00:23:37Z")
I got my first card today! Aloha from **Olive**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/125 "2012-08-23T01:09:15Z")
I got my first one from **gardentraveler**! Fireworks over Columbus! I do so love the postcard exchange! **ScareyFaerie** , glad you like the battle-y Civil War card 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/126 "2012-08-23T03:26:01Z")
I received two cards todayone from **minionkat** and one from **IvoryTowerDenizen**. I like that I get postcards from elsewhere with aloha shirt stamps. Mahalo~ ---
**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 23, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/127 "2012-08-23T03:34:41Z")
Whee! I got two postcards today! One all antiquey, from **labtrash** in the Carolinas, and one from **Cunctator** in Australia! The Australian one was made to look like Australian money, and my friend had placed it in my room, and as I entered in the dimness, I saw what looked like a pile of money on top of my other mail. “Wait a minute, that’s Australian money.” :: goes to pick it up :: “That’s a _postcard!!!_” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/128 "2012-08-23T03:57:27Z")
I’m pleased that you like the postcard **Sunspace**. It struck me as rather quirky and amusing. Once I’d found it, I sent it out in triplicate. So all three of the cards that I sent have now been received. But nothing’s arrived yet…perhaps I’ll find something this evening when I get home from work. And I even feel as though I can legitimately be part of the **summer** postcard exchange. The temperature here has skyrocketed to 29C today (84F). I had to change back into summer pyjamas last night. It’s always weird at this time of year on the cusp of spring. Only a few days ago the ski-fields were getting heavy snowfalls. ---
**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 23, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/129 "2012-08-23T04:24:22Z")
Just got my first postcard today, a picture and recipe of Buckeye candies. Thanks, **gardentraveler**! ---
**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 23, 2012, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/130 "2012-08-23T04:27:26Z")
Whew! ---
**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 23, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/131 "2012-08-23T04:47:43Z")
I am very impressed by the Australian post office. **Cunctator** on the other side of the world from us is the first to have all three of his post cards delivered. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/132 "2012-08-23T06:22:43Z")
I assume that Australia Post is responsible only for getting them onto the plane and to the point of entry in the overseas country - which I imagine would mean Vancouver for Canada and Los Angeles for the USA. After that it’s up to the Canadian and American post offices. All three postal systems seems to have done a very good job this time round. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/133 "2012-08-23T18:22:42Z")
I received my first postcard of this round today! Courtesy of **Lsura** , it shows the nice, eh, “starry” skyline of Atlanta 🙂 Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/134 "2012-08-23T20:33:59Z")
> [@JoseB](#): > > I received my first postcard of this round today! Courtesy of **Lsura** , it shows the nice, eh, “starry” skyline of Atlanta 🙂 > > Thanks! Yay! That took less than a week - I mailed them last Friday. Glad it got there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/135 "2012-08-23T21:46:01Z")
> [@\_Olive](#): > > I received two cards todayone from **minionkat** and one from **IvoryTowerDenizen**. > > I like that I get postcards from elsewhere with aloha shirt stamps. > > Mahalo~ Whoa, that’s fast. Those went in the mail on Monday. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/136 "2012-08-23T21:47:41Z")
> [@\_Olive](#): > > I received two cards todayone from **minionkat** and one from **IvoryTowerDenizen**. > > I like that I get postcards from elsewhere with aloha shirt stamps. > > Mahalo~ Glad you got it! ---
**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 23, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/137 "2012-08-23T22:28:55Z")
I got my second card, from minionkat! Though Canadian, she sent a card from the Pike’s Peak Cog Railway. And another Aloha stamp! I guess they are the hot thing at the post office right now. Strangely though one of my cards was the first to arrive, no one seems to have gotten my others yet. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/138 "2012-08-23T23:07:22Z")
Ahem, **Mr. davinci** : see post 98. 🙂 Glad at least one of mine has arrived. At least one more should have been there no later than today, I would think… ---
**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 23, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/139 "2012-08-23T23:43:33Z")
> [@gardentraveler](#): > > Ahem, **Mr. davinci** : see post 98. > > 🙂 Excellent! Don’t know how I missed that. Did the special scent option work? It was supposed to smell like “ocean breeze”. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364/140 "2012-08-24T01:06:33Z")
Got my first postcard today! From Elendils Heir, a nice picture of JFK. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-2012-postcard-exchange-round-two/630364.md?page=8)