# The Great SDMB Spring 2014 Postcard Exchange!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 23, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739 "2014-04-23T03:41:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/1 "2014-04-23T03:41:52Z")
Winter 2014 thread here: [The Great SDMB Winter 2014 Postcard Exchange! - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=713654)
Here’s how it works:
If you want to get three (3), count 'em, THREE! postcards from witty and intelligent Dopers from around the world, just sign up here, and send me a PM with your real-life name and postal address. (You know, post - you put a stamp on it, put it in a post box, and a postal carrier will pick it up and deliver it - I’m sure if you’ve forgotten how to do it, it will come back to you before you know it).
Cut-off for signing up for the first round is noon EST on **Tues. May 6**. I’ll take all the names and addresses received by PM by that date, and will then send out PMs to each of you with the names and addresses of the three Dopers to whom you’ll send postcards. _Don’t sign up unless you intend to do your very best to participate._ I’ll try to ensure that everyone gets at least one postcard from someone from another country. (Offer depends on availability of world-wide Dopers signing up. No warranty of world-wide Dopers is offered, express or implied. Terms may vary depending on local laws. Offer void where prohibited. You need not be sane to win. Do not adjust your dial, write if you get work, hang by your thumbs, &c &c &c).
You then purchase three (3!) postcards which you want to share with other Dopers. It’s up to you what themes to select. Local color is always good, especially if you’re sending it to a world-wide Doper. Bear in mind that some Dopers may have small children, so nothing X-rated, please. Address them. Write a short, clearly-written message to the Doper, who is going to be just thrilled to hear from you. _Be sure to use your SDMB username_, so they know who sent it to them. Get stamps and put them on the postcards. Put the postcards in your local mail slot, and off they go!
Deadline for posting your postcards is two weeks later, by **Tues. May 20**. Please report back here as soon as you’ve posted them.
Gird your loins and wait with saintly patience (this is particularly hard for some Dopers, I remember well from the other threads). Soon enough, postcardy goodness will arrive in your mailbox.
Then, report back here that you’ve started receiving Doper postcards. Huzzah!
If all goes well, there may be another round later in the summer. However, Dopers who sign up and then don’t carry through with postcards in this round may find themselves excluded, yea, verily, even exiled to the outer Pit, rather than being allowed to sign up for the next. Dopers who already dropped the ball in the Winter thread are at a distinct disadvantage in this round. Decisions on this point are left entirely to my sole, but hopefully not too arbitrary, discretion. So don’t let your fellow Dopers down.
And we’re off…
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### Author:  [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/2 "2014-04-23T06:10:29Z")
Yes please. I assume you kept addresses from round 1?
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### Author:  [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/3 "2014-04-23T11:16:50Z")
Yes, please. I already have my postcards even. 🙂
Same question as **Cunctator** - I’ve got no problem re-sending if needed.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/4 "2014-04-23T18:04:14Z")
Please send addresses via PM again, even if you did earlier. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/5 "2014-04-23T18:30:13Z")
In. Again.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/6 "2014-04-23T19:22:46Z")
and I!
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### Author:  [@Anaglyph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaglyph)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/7 "2014-04-23T20:48:42Z")
Me too!
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### Author:  [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/8 "2014-04-23T20:53:58Z")
Me, three! Am pm’ing you now!
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### Author:  [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/9 "2014-04-23T21:29:13Z")
I’m in. PM on its way!
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/10 "2014-04-24T01:35:26Z")
Excellent. Keep ‘em comin’!
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/11 "2014-04-24T02:02:50Z")
I just sent a PM
I loved all the postcards I got in the last round, but if I had to pick a favorite it would be the bunny suicide postcard. The bunny is sawing away at a rope holding two palm trees together, and to which he is tied.
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### Author:  [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/12 "2014-04-24T15:53:04Z")
In for another round.
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### Author:  [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/13 "2014-04-24T16:48:21Z")
Returning once again, though I am now out of cards.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/14 "2014-04-24T18:51:27Z")
Go buy 'em now! Some good tips on sources in the previous thread.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/15 "2014-04-24T19:12:13Z")
PM on the way.
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/16 "2014-04-24T19:26:20Z")
And me!
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/17 "2014-04-24T19:50:01Z")
I have a nice selection for both this round and the next. Plan ahead!
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### Author:  [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/18 "2014-04-24T19:51:31Z")
I’m in! Will PM you momentarily.
And I promise to write slowly, soberly, and legibly this time.
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### Author:  [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/19 "2014-04-28T03:42:50Z")
I just bought my postcards and stamps.
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### Author:  [@Clare\_de\_Loone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clare_de_Loone)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-spring-2014-postcard-exchange/686739/20 "2014-04-28T03:58:50Z")
Sure, I’ll play, too!
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