# 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:** 5
**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 21, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/81 "2012-07-21T21:51:21Z")
I so snickered at the suggestion to make you wait… but didn’t have the heart. 🙂 ---
**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 21, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/82 "2012-07-21T23:28:07Z")
Greetings from Canuckastan, thanks to FloatyGimpy. Love my Canadian Mountie! ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/83 "2012-07-22T22:15:19Z")
Mine are all set and in the post box. Although, without Sunday pickup, they really won’t go until tomorrow. ---
**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 22, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/84 "2012-07-22T22:56:13Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Got **IvoryTowerDenizen** ’s card from New York yesterday, and **~Olive~**'s from Hawaii today. Very nice. Many thanks to you both! Wait a minute - you guys down south get Saturday delivery?!? ---
**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 23, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/85 "2012-07-23T00:59:44Z")
Yup, although if the U.S. Postal Service can’t get out of its budgetary black hole, probably not for long. ---
**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 23, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/86 "2012-07-23T01:40:30Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Wait a minute - you guys down south get Saturday delivery?!? Us up in the Northeast do too, though they are threatening to do away with Wed service, not Sat. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/87 "2012-07-23T01:43:38Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Greetings from Canuckastan, thanks to > FloatyGimpy. Love my Canadian Mountie! Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/88 "2012-07-23T03:33:55Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Wait a minute - you guys down south get Saturday delivery?!? I can’t remember when Saturday postal deliveries ceased in Australia. It was well before I was old enough to receive regular mail. I’m guessing early 1970s or thereabouts. At least 35 or so years ago. ---
**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 23, 2012, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/89 "2012-07-23T11:49:49Z")
For those who’ve not yet posted your cards: ♫ “A few short hours, that’s all the time you’ve got” ♫ ---
**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:** [July 23, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/90 "2012-07-23T14:06:12Z")
All mine were posted today. Great and Sincere apologies for the lateness of said posting. ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/91 "2012-07-23T21:30:17Z")
Oooooh! So much excitement today! I got two postcards. One from **Cunctator** - thank you so much 🙂 I realize now that I did not put my real name with my postal address. Sorry. ☹ And another postcard unrelated to this thread. I have a friend visiting the UK at present and he loves sending postcards. It’s a match made in heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/92 "2012-07-24T01:18:20Z")
Ooh, on top of the 3 Shirt.Woot! shirts I got from their random shirt sale last week, I also got my other two postcards today. From **anya marie** , some adorable prairie dogs of the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo. Yay! And from **Atomic Mama** , a gorgeous \*wooden \*postcard from Belfast, ME. While I’ve said it here somewhere, she isn’t like to have known that I did my undergrad in Maine - at Colby, about an hour-ish from Belfast, IIRC. I’ve done a lot of missing New England this year for some reason - maybe because my 20th reunion is coming up wicked fast. 🙂 Thanks! ---
**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:** [July 24, 2012, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/93 "2012-07-24T03:37:19Z")
Mine are finally sent! I had to get paid for some design work first. Getting to a card store, buying cards, and paying postage would have been an issue earlier… ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/94 "2012-07-24T03:37:50Z")
> [@minionkat](#): > > Oooooh! So much excitement today! I got two postcards. One from **Cunctator** - thank you so much 🙂 I’m glad you liked it. Now there’s only one more of mine left to be delivered. No arrivals here as yet. ---
**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 24, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/95 "2012-07-24T04:20:45Z")
Just got my third and final postcard, from **Lsura** , a nice downtown view of Atlanta. Thanks! ---
**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 24, 2012, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/96 "2012-07-24T06:40:05Z")
Got a postcard from gardentraveler in Monday’s mail and that is 2 of 3 postcards. ---
**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 24, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/97 "2012-07-24T12:37:45Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Mine are finally sent! :: Crosses **Sunspace** off the tentive Outer Pit list :: ---
**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 24, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/98 "2012-07-24T12:38:53Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Us up in the Northeast do too, though they are threatening to do away with Wed service, not Sat. You guys are all “south” to me. 🙂 ---
**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 24, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/99 "2012-07-24T12:40:45Z")
Now, I hate to be a nag, but I’ve not seen a post from the following, mentioning that they’ve posted their cards: **FrancisCastle, ScareyFaerie** I’m assuming that in the heady rush of posting your cards, you all just forgot to mention it here? ---
**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 24, 2012, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522/100 "2012-07-24T12:42:38Z")
> [@minionkat](#): > > I realize now that I did not put my real name with my postal address. Sorry. ☹ I just assumed it was internet-shyness. But it seems to have travelled halfway around the globe without your actual name, anyway! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2012-sdmb-summer-postcard-exchange/627522.md?page=6)