# The Great SDMB Summer 2016 Postcard Exchange! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2016, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001 "2016-05-17T15:11:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/61 "2016-05-30T00:31:43Z")
Just got home from travels. All cards are in the box, but won’t be picked up by USPS until Tuesday due to the holiday. In my stack of bills and election materials, I almost tossed out the obvious political bit with the bald eagle on it - until closer inspection revealed that it was from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo courtesy of our own **Elendil’s Heir**! ---
**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:** [May 30, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/62 "2016-05-30T04:04:38Z")
Glad two of my cards have arrived. > [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > An Elvis created completely out of Ritz, saltines, and Graham. Dale Ernhardt done entirely in Cheez-Its… Hmm. And something on black velvet, I would think. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_butterfly_s_ghost/32/3462_2.png) [@The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Butterfly_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/63 "2016-05-30T19:30:17Z")
Sent all my cards out today - and already received one from **dbygawdcapr** - a beautiful and interesting card from the Smithsonian. Lovely moon stamp as well. Thanks a lot! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/64 "2016-05-31T12:46:30Z")
My postcards are out in the mail today. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/65 "2016-05-31T14:35:29Z")
Just got back from work and found two lovely cards in the mail. One from **Grrlbrarian** with the beautiful Bradley University in Peoria, IL, which looks surprisingly European to my European eyes, and one from **romansperson** picturing the good things about North Carolina. Don’t worry **romansperson** , I won’t judge the people by the idiocy of their state legislature. Many thanks to both of you :). ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/66 "2016-05-31T15:40:56Z")
Hurrah! Got my first postcard depicting a gorgeous barn owl fostered at the Raptor Center. Thanks, **romansperson**! I’m assuming it was sent via Owl Post as well. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/67 "2016-05-31T15:42:22Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Just got back from work and found two lovely cards in the mail. One from **Grrlbrarian** with the beautiful Bradley University in Peoria, IL, which looks surprisingly European to my European eyes, and one from **romansperson** picturing the good things about North Carolina. Don’t worry **romansperson** , I won’t judge the people by the idiocy of their state legislature. Many thanks to both of you :). Hehe, **EinsteinsHund** : you’re quite right. Our Bradley Hall built in1897 was modeled on buildings at the University of Chicago, which were in turn modeled on buildings at Oxford University. You’re most welcome! ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/68 "2016-05-31T17:10:01Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Just got back from work and found two lovely cards in the mail. One from **Grrlbrarian** with the beautiful Bradley University in Peoria, IL, which looks surprisingly European to my European eyes, and one from **romansperson** picturing the good things about North Carolina. Don’t worry **romansperson** , I won’t judge the people by the idiocy of their state legislature. Many thanks to both of you :). Wow, that was fast! ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/69 "2016-05-31T17:13:38Z")
> [@Grrlbrarian](#): > > Hurrah! Got my first postcard depicting a gorgeous barn owl fostered at the Raptor Center. Thanks, **romansperson**! I’m assuming it was sent via Owl Post as well. 😃 I should have put one of my Harry Potter stamps on it, but as a Grrlbrarian I thought you might enjoy the Twain stamp. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/70 "2016-05-31T18:31:02Z")
I have sent some postcards! All of them going to the USA this time, we’ll see how long it takes them to cross the pond. ---
**Author:** ![MsJinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@MsJinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsJinx)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/71 "2016-05-31T18:50:32Z")
My three cards were in the mail this morning ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/72 "2016-05-31T22:43:33Z")
I got a lovely card from **Grrlbrarian** today featuring the [Pettengill-Morron House Museum](http://www.peoriahistoricalsociety.org/House-Museums/Pettengill-Morron_House_Museum), with which she has a family association. It’s a winter scene, which was refreshing on our hot and humid day today! We live near [Ayr Mount](http://classicalamericanhomes.org/ayr-mount/), another cool old house - I love touring them in other towns when I get the chance. **Fluffy PickleSniffer** sent me a bevy of cards giving me an excellent idea of what her area of the world is like - nature cards, a barn, the Wisconsin food pyramid (which I can totally relate to, as my mother was born and raised in Wisconsin, and I still have relatives there in Madison and Eau Claire. My relatives on that side moved there to start a cheese factory). These were enclosed in a card picturing a lift bridge in Duluth, MN, which looks just like [Cuyahoga River Bridge #1](http://historicbridges.org/ohio/clevelandrr5/cleveland0744.JPG) in my hometown! ---
**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:** [May 31, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/73 "2016-05-31T23:18:21Z")
Got two from Lsura today! Georgia is peachy, and her grandmother had some neat postcards stashed away. I wonder what the parrot is trying to kill with that cannon? ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/74 "2016-06-01T00:13:52Z")
I received my first postcard! This has been a frustrating day, so getting a lovely card showing Australian Aboriginal art was a welcome experience. I would love to go to Australia one day, but I think this postcard is as close as I will ever get, so many thanks, dbygawdcapn!! I am buying my postcards at a place I am visiting on Friday, so they should go out Saturday. ---
**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 1, 2016, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/75 "2016-06-01T03:26:44Z")
I got two postcards from **Lsura** One from Georgia’s Stone Mountain (“a mountain of fun”) and an antique one from the Parrot Bowl at Miami’s Parrot Jungle. I wonder if that is “bowl” like an amphitheater, or if they get those parrots to play championship football? Thanks, **Lsura**! ---
**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 1, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/76 "2016-06-01T03:48:12Z")
Just got a nice exterior view of the Crocker Art Museum from **Karen Lingel** , who wasn’t even in my exchange group! **davida03801, minionkat** and **Cheez\_Whia** were late signups; **silenus** was the first to offer to send additional postcards if needed (many thanks!), so I’ve matched them up in a group and sent them their PMs. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/77 "2016-06-01T05:47:04Z")
Mine will get picked up by the postman tomorrow morning. Not up to my past efforts, but at least they’re sent. I’m hoping to send out more and better, but not making any promises! ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/78 "2016-06-01T15:07:18Z")
Hurrah! I came home yesterday to a lovely packet of postcards from **Fluffy Picklesniffer**. Many gorgeous sights and yep, I got a Wisconsin food pyramid too. Planning on taking full advantage of that when I head for the Big Wis in ten days. 😃 Thanks a million - I enjoyed them all! ---
**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 1, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/79 "2016-06-01T15:10:19Z")
Got the last batch of cards today, and it was a batch of seven (!) cards all from **Fluffy PickleSniffer** alone, very beautiful and diverse. The one with the deer in winter could have been taken a few meters outside of my own home, it looks just like our forests here in the [Sauerland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerland), and I too sometimes have deer in my garden :). If you follow CS closely, you’ll know that I’m one of the biggest Dylan fans on this board, so I was delighted to see a card of Duluth, Bob’s birth town, in the batch. Thank you very much, **Fluffy** :). ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/80 "2016-06-01T18:04:25Z")
I got 5 postcards today! 3 from **silenus** , showing some lovely scenery around the southern california desert, historic Route 66 and a pome about sand dollars. And 2 from **Lsura** - a very sparkly one featuring Georgia, and a parrot on a telephone! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001.md?page=5)