# The 2026 edition of the SDMB Postcard exchange - new management, old rules **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2026, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779 "2026-05-04T10:06:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![RollOutTheBarrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rolloutthebarrel/32/1649_2.png) [@RollOutTheBarrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RollOutTheBarrel)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/341 "2026-06-24T03:52:20Z")
I got a second postcard from @penultima_thule today. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/342 "2026-06-24T09:26:22Z")
There you go … I was just trying to fly under the radar and restart a commendable SDMB tradition and yet there seems to have been an organised conspiracy, nea full blown insurrection within the ranks. Today the postie delivers seven (7) postcards. Treely rooly and wowsers. Crikey, strewth and stoked. Now stop it! 🙃 @Elendil_s_Heir provided an image of a slightly unsettling still life prone on bookcase postmarked 29th May; @Ulf_the_Unwashed sent a distinguished one from the Theodore Roosevelt inaugural historic site; @Mollie_Magill sent two, a dusk image of the Washington Capital building and a view of the CSA cemetery at Franklin, which I walked around in a sombre and reflective mood about this time three years ago; @EinsteinsHund a card promoting the work of German Romantic era painter Casper David Freidrich; @Teuton with a classic image of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, not something used for taking polaroids and @needscoffee with a helpful forecast of “cloudy with a chance of coffee”, as indeed it was in Sydney today. Generosity way beyond all reasonable expectations, folks. Thank you all. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/343 "2026-06-24T13:04:04Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > @Mollie_Magill sent two, a dusk image of the Washington Capital building and a view of the CSA cemetery at Franklin, which I walked around in a sombre and reflective mood about this time three years ago; Oh! I didn’t realize your tour had brought you through here. I’da taken you out for a beer. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/344 "2026-06-24T13:21:36Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > @EinsteinsHund a card promoting the work of German Romantic era painter Casper David Freidrich; I’m surprised my card made it faster to Australia than the ones for my American recipients. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/345 "2026-06-24T19:54:34Z")
I received a marvelous missive from @penultima_thule. It’s all about my favorite things: maps, landscapes (a contemporary installation with urban-vs.-nature overtones, by Australian artist Cerith Wyn Evans\*),and books. Much appreciated. I’ll send you a card as well. \*My mistake: I see he is Welsh. The card, though, very much situates this particular installation in Sydney, with the Opera House visible through a window. > **[Cerith Wyn Evans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerith_Wyn_Evans)** > > Cerith Wyn Evans (born 1958 in Llanelli) is a Welsh conceptual artist, sculptor and film-maker. In 2018 he won the £30,000 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. > The son of Sulwyn and Myfanwy Evans, Evans was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at Ysgol Gymraeg Dewi Sant, Llanelli and at Llanelli Boys Grammar School. His father was a noted photographer and painter. Evans is a fluent Welsh speaker. > Evans completed a foundation course at Dyfed College of Art (1976–77), and later studie... ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/346 "2026-06-25T01:53:09Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I’m surprised my card made it faster to Australia than the ones for my American recipients. You obviously haven’t been watching the politisation of the US postal service. Your stateside directed cards have likely been personally perused by Kash Patel and/or Peter Hegseth in case they represent a devious mechanism of subversion and foreign influence on the American populace … and they might well be right. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/347 "2026-06-25T09:25:20Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > My mistake: I see he is Welsh You couldn’t get a more Welsh name than that ! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/348 "2026-06-25T12:18:52Z")
Ha! True. ---
**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 25, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/349 "2026-06-25T14:44:05Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > …In Jan 2018 the SBS TV network commissioned a “slow TV” project and put a couple of cameras on the train. Mostly just using a single forward shot mounted on the engine. Sometimes using a drone to glimpse passing features. “[The Ghan](https://youtu.be/gotY2slaL_E)” program ran for 3 hours… I see only a single pair of tracks. Does the train run south, and then north, and then south again, etc.? Or is there another pair of tracks, out of sight to either side? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/350 "2026-06-25T15:39:55Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > You obviously haven’t been watching the politisation of the US postal service. > Your stateside directed cards have likely been personally perused by Kash Patel and/or Peter Hegseth in case they represent a devious mechanism of subversion and foreign influence on the American populace … and they might well be right. Yes, I had thought about that, and by now it’s striking how cards from the US to me in Germany have arrived in the usual period of about two weeks, like I’m used to from several former postcard exchanges, while the cards I sent to the US seem to take much longer than that, which formerly was also the norm for that direction across the pond. ETA: this gives me an idea for next year’s PE: some of the best German caricaturists have produced an awful lot of great Trump cartoons in the last decade. I should check out if some of them got printed on postcards, and use these for my mail to the USA next year. Just a little test about freedom of expression. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/351 "2026-06-25T18:00:18Z")
A postcard from @Teuton has finally made its way across the pond: it depicts a portrait of Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library at Oxford. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/352 "2026-06-26T10:21:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I see only a single pair of tracks. There is just the single track. During peak season there are two trains and they pass at sidings at Marla or Alice Springs depending on scheduling and progress. And back on the PCE the local postie has delivered even more international goodwill; @Czarcasm with a selection of the scenery of Oregon, all of which was new to me; @Rebo with a field packed with bluebonnets … I was under the misconception the state flower of Texas was the yellow rose and @kenobi_65 showing Soldiers Field and the Field Museum. Wonderful. Thank you all. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/353 "2026-06-26T16:23:30Z")
You’re gonna need a bigger fridge.. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/354 "2026-06-26T16:37:41Z")
Sent on the 1st of June, and arrived on the 26th of June. Next time I think I just my message in a bottle and throw it into the Pacific. 😁 ---
**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:** [June 26, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/355 "2026-06-26T19:51:08Z")
Just got a card from @penultima_thule, thanking me for participating. Plus a book plate with a Gentleman Koala on it! ---
**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:** [June 26, 2026, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/356 "2026-06-26T20:03:40Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Next time I think I just my message in a bottle and throw it into the Pacific. 😁 It’s been done. [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52243557068_5eef830904_z.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52243557068_5eef830904_z.jpg) (sent by @EinsteinsHund and @The_Butterfly_s_Ghost in the 2022 exchange) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/357 "2026-06-26T20:29:52Z")
Thanks for the reminder, @blondebear, also from @The_Butterfly_s_Ghost! I remember that I was very worried if the “message in a bottle” would arrive via regular mail, but it worked out! How it landed on the Pacific coast here from Germany, I still have no idea. 😉 ---
**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 27, 2026, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/358 "2026-06-27T04:44:14Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > I see only a single pair of tracks. > > There is just the single track. > During peak season there are two trains and they pass at sidings at Marla or Alice Springs depending on scheduling and progress… Ah, thanks. That makes sense. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2026, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/359 "2026-06-28T02:48:47Z")
@EinsteinsHund’s card arrived today! A riveting painting by Caspar David Friedrich! Thanks, EH! ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779/360 "2026-06-29T11:45:19Z")
The accounting in this exchange is proving the most complex part of the business. By my reckoning from posts lodged in the thread there have been 114 of 130 sender/receiver pairs showing as completed. I understand there are further dispatches both pending and in transit and I’ve likely miss-counted some. | Sender | RecBy01 | RecBy02 | RecBy03 | RecBy04 | RecBy05 | RecBy06 | RecBy07 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Allecher | Reeses\_Monkey | blondebear | penultima\_thule | | | | | | Baker | RealityChuck | | | | | | | | BippityBoppityBoo | | | | | | | | | blondebear | Allecher | Reeses\_Monkey | Kimstu | penultima\_thule | | | | | Czarcasm | JaneDoe42 | Maus Magill | Czarcasm | | | | | | Die\_Capacitrix | Karen\_Lingel | Teuton | RollOutTheBarrel | Rebo | penultima\_thule | RealityChuck | | | EinsteinsHund | pjd | penultima\_thule | Karen\_Lingel | | | | | | Elendil\_s\_Heir | needscoffee | melodyharmonius | Elendil\_s\_Heir | penultima\_thule | | | | | JaneDoe42 | pjd | Maus Magill | Czarcasm | EinsteinsHund | penultima\_thule | | | | Jkellymap | liirogue | thorny\_locust | | | | | | | JoseB | | | | | | | | | Karen\_Lingel | Ulf\_the\_Unwashed | Die\_Capacitrix | SunUp | Teuton | penultima\_thule | EinsteinsHund | | | kenobi\_65 | romansperson | Teuton | silenus | penultima\_thule | | | | | Kimstu | blondebear | Allecher | | | | | | | liirogue | thorny\_locust | Jkellymap | penultima\_thule | | | | | | Maus Magill | Czarcasm | JaneDoe42 | penultima\_thule | | | | | | melodyharmonius | Elendil\_s\_Heir | needscoffee | pjd | | | | | | needscoffee | Elendil\_s\_Heir | melodyharmonius | Kimstu | pjd | penultima\_thule | Elendil\_s\_Heir | Rebo | | pjd | EinsteinsHund | JaneDoe42 | penultima\_thule | melodyharmonius | Elendil\_s\_Heir | | | | RealityChuck | RollOutTheBarrel | Die\_Capacitrix | Rebo | penultima\_thule | | | | | Rebo | needscoffee | RollOutTheBarrel | RealityChuck | Die\_Capacitrix | penultima\_thule | | | | Reeses\_Monkey | Allecher | blondebear | Kimstu | penultima\_thule | | | | | RollOutTheBarrel | Rebo | | | | | | | | romansperson | Teuton | kenobi\_65 | silenus | penultima\_thule | | | | | silenus | romansperson | kenobi\_65 | Teuton | penultima\_thule | | | | | SuntanLotion | RollOutTheBarrel | Ulf\_the\_Unwashed | | | | | | | SunUp | Ulf\_the\_Unwashed | Karen\_Lingel | EinsteinsHund | | | | | | Teuton | Die\_Capacitrix | Karen\_Lingel | romansperson | silenus | kenobi\_65 | penultima\_thule | | | thorny\_locust | Jkellymap | liirogue | penultima\_thule | Reeses\_Monkey | | | | | Ulf\_the\_Unwashed | RollOutTheBarrel | Suntan\_Lotion | SunUp | Karen\_Lingel | EinsteinsHund | penultima\_thule | | | | | | | | | | | [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2026-edition-of-the-sdmb-postcard-exchange-new-management-old-rules/1029779.md?page=19)