# The Great 2012 SDMB Summer Postcard Exchange! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522 "2012-07-07T15:29:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/61 "2012-07-19T16:16:05Z")
Finally remembered to take them and mail them when I left my office for lunch. So, sent! ---
**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:** [July 19, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/62 "2012-07-19T17:42:50Z")
Just got my first card! **Elendil’s Heir** wins the prize. His card is a nice view of the Cleveland skyline, with very appropos [stampage](http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/blogs/hawaii_today/2012/1/20/Hawaii_aloha_shirt_postcard_stamp). ---
**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:** [July 19, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/63 "2012-07-19T18:30:56Z")
Hey, I just sent off my postcards – ahead of deadline 😃 The lucky recipients are located in: Canada Australia & the U.S. of A. 🆒 ---
**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:** [July 19, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/64 "2012-07-19T18:36:19Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Just got my first card! **Elendil’s Heir** wins the prize. > > His card is a nice view of the Cleveland skyline, with very appropos [stampage](http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/blogs/hawaii_today/2012/1/20/Hawaii_aloha_shirt_postcard_stamp). Elendil’s Heir is my first postcard, too! Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/65 "2012-07-19T22:19:03Z")
Got home last night. Today, went out to the mail and found a card all the way from Sydney! That you Cunctator! Now I need to find a way back to Sydney (haven’t been since the late 90s when the company would send me regularly). The card also reminded me to write my own. Dug through the office to find my stash, then to find my stamps, then to loop up international rates, then to write something appropriately Dopey. Cards are away! ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/66 "2012-07-19T23:02:15Z")
Well, my first one’s from **~Olive~**! That was a fast trip from Hawaii(I think the postmark says Honolulu 🙂 ) Which reminds me of a conversation I overheard today when I went to mail mine. The campus PO is staffed by students and after I bought my stamps they continued talking to each other. One of them said “I don’t get why it costs the same to mail something to Hawaii - where I really want to go by the way - as it does to mail it one state over. I know Hawaii’s the same country, but it still seems like it should cost more”. I didn’t know what to say or the reason, so I just kept my mouth shut and acted like I hadn’t heard. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/67 "2012-07-19T23:50:05Z")
> [@Algher](#): > > Got home last night. Today, went out to the mail and found a card all the way from Sydney! That you Cunctator! Now I need to find a way back to Sydney (haven’t been since the late 90s when the company would send me regularly). That was quicker than I expected. I posted them on Monday afternoon here (i.e. late Sunday night your time). So that means it’s taken less than 4 days for delivery. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/68 "2012-07-20T03:13:03Z")
I got a cool card from **silenus** today. Thanks! Wrote mine up this evening and took them to the post office. First pick-up tomorrow is 9 a.m. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/69 "2012-07-20T03:35:32Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Just got my first card! **Elendil’s Heir** wins the prize. > > His card is a nice view of the Cleveland skyline, with very appropos [stampage](http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/blogs/hawaii_today/2012/1/20/Hawaii_aloha_shirt_postcard_stamp). > [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Elendil’s Heir is my first postcard, too! > > Yay! I aim to please. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2012, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/70 "2012-07-20T08:10:20Z")
I got my first card today, from **JoseB**. It has a lovely picture of parliament complex in The Hague, it’s somewhere I’ve never been but I’m putting it on my list of places I now want to visit! ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/71 "2012-07-20T12:50:12Z")
Took mine yesterday but I think I missed the blue box cut off so they probably “officially” went out today. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/72 "2012-07-20T17:22:23Z")
Sent mine out this morning. ---
**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/73 "2012-07-20T21:07:50Z")
> [@Lsura](#): > > Well, my first one’s from **~Olive~**! That was a fast trip from Hawaii(I think the postmark says Honolulu 🙂 ) I put the card in the slot to get a local postmark, it shouldn’t say Honolulu. The postmaster was on holiday. Strangers were working last week. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/74 "2012-07-20T22:05:15Z")
> [@\_Olive](#): > > I put the card in the slot to get a local postmark, it shouldn’t say Honolulu. The postmaster was on holiday. Strangers were working last week. It’s kind of blurry, so I was taking a guess and don’t really know what it says. 🙂 But it’s a lovely postcard. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/75 "2012-07-20T23:02:09Z")
Unlike **Cunctator** , I have worked the precepts of Fabius Maximus into my daily life, and have just now posted my cards! End of the work week so I filled them out and toddled down the street to the postal outlet in the mall - off they go, complete with winter stamps left over from Christmas a few years ago. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/76 "2012-07-21T01:22:16Z")
I am dropping mine in the mailbox tonight, so they will be winging their ways in tomorrow’s mail. I did get my first postcard today, from Anaamika! (Made me feel a bit lazy, getting one before I posted mine!) ---
**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:** [July 21, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/77 "2012-07-21T01:41:52Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > (Made me feel a bit lazy, getting one before I posted mine!) That is the sign of a slacker. 😛 ---
**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:** [July 21, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/78 "2012-07-21T02:37:02Z")
My cards fo Lsura and Northern Piper went out in Thursday’s mail. The card for ~Olive~ went out in today’s mail becuase I had some more letters to post and that card had drifted to the back of the mailbox. In Friday’s mail I got a card from Silenus. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/79 "2012-07-21T04:03:13Z")
Thanks for the updates, everyone! And for those who’ve not yet posted your cards (you know who you are 😉 ), remember, you only have 3 days to avoid the Outer Pit … ---
**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:** [July 21, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/80 "2012-07-21T21:02:06Z")
Got **IvoryTowerDenizen** ’s card from New York yesterday, and **~Olive~**'s from Hawaii today. Very nice. Many thanks to you both! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522.md?page=5)