# 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:** 6
**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 6, 2016, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/101 "2016-06-06T13:46:00Z")
All cards due in the mail _tomorrow_. Thanks! ---
**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 6, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/102 "2016-06-06T17:09:02Z")
Yay! I got a blue elephant card in the mail on Saturday from **The Butterfly’s Ghost**. And as a bonus, I too got a four-leaf clover! Thanks for the lovely lucky card. Elephants are my favorite! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/103 "2016-06-06T22:46:52Z")
Came home from work today to discover two postcards in my mailbox. One had an elephant’s butt from \*\*EinsteinsHund \*\*and the other the front half of an elephant, along with a real honest-to-goodness 4 leaf clover from **Butterfly’s Ghost**! That was a very coordinated postcard-mailing - you’re setting the bar up higher! 🙂 > [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > **The Butterfly’s Ghost** has supernatural powers when it comes to four-leafed clovers. > > And yes, it was a joint effort, and my task was to provide the butt ;). One of my uncles has that same superpower of finding 4 leaf clovers! I’ve never been able to do it - but I can find lots of 3 leaf clovers if anyone wants. them. 😃 ---
**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:** [June 7, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/104 "2016-06-07T01:20:44Z")
I too got the front end of an elephant and a four-leaf clover from **Butterfly’s Ghost** , but(t) the rear has not been brought up yet! Maybe tomorrow? Many thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/105 "2016-06-07T02:23:56Z")
I got a card from needscoffee. It’s a nighttime picture of the skyline of Seattle., and a section of the harbor. Thanks, it’s really pretty! ---
**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 7, 2016, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/106 "2016-06-07T04:31:24Z")
All postcards should be mailed by _today_, please. Thanks! ---
**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 7, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/107 "2016-06-07T15:06:13Z")
Hehehe. Yesterday I got a postie of an elephant’s backside in the mail from **EinsteinsHund**! LOVE it - and yeah, that’s setting the bar high. 😃 ---
**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 7, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/108 "2016-06-07T19:01:11Z")
Three participants have, by my tally, not yet posted here that they’ve sent off their postcards. I’ll PM them a friendly reminder. ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/109 "2016-06-07T19:37:40Z")
Mine went in the post today. Life with my new job got hectic, so I was very glad to have purchased them when I was waitlisted (for which I am very grateful, was sad to have missed it). Getting them to the post office took more doing than usual. But I am in and by the deadline (by the skin of my teeth). Now it is in the hands of Canada Post and the USPS. Good luck! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/110 "2016-06-07T20:47:34Z")
Got another one today! From blondebear, made of sustainable birch, from Mount Rainier National Park! It is a hard wooden postcard, the like of which I have never seen before, and i am insanely jealous. Love it! ---
**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 7, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/111 "2016-06-07T21:30:15Z")
Got two from **Teuton**. A really neat card depicting the West Somerset Steam Railway and another card depicting Exmoor wildlife, as **Teuton** puts it, “lovingly Photoshopped.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/112 "2016-06-07T22:24:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Three participants have, by my tally, not yet posted here that they’ve sent off their postcards. I’ll PM them a friendly reminder. Yes, one of them is me, I’m sorry to be such a flake this time! :smack: They ARE in the mail. I also got an elephant’s butt from **EintsteinsHund** 😃 and a postcard of a really cool driftwood horse sculpture from\*\* dbygawdcapn\*\*. Thanks so much! ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/113 "2016-06-07T23:01:45Z")
I got a card today from **Teuton**. A bunch of seagulls eating fish and chips, with a message warning me not to feed the seagulls. I made that mistake as a child. Never again. 🙂 ---
**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 8, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/114 "2016-06-08T20:13:59Z")
Apparently there are moose in the Northeast. Like the one on the card I just got from **davida03801.** A moose bit my sister once. ---
**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 8, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/115 "2016-06-08T23:31:12Z")
I got two cards from **Teuton** today: One from beautiful Minehead Beach, and one from a steam train museum. Thanks, **Teuton**! For the record: I have now received all my postcards and all my official postcards have been received. I still have one “bonus” card out there. ---
**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 9, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/116 "2016-06-09T04:06:40Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > …A moose bit my sister once. Hmm. A moose, or a møøse? Just got a thin wooden (!) Sol Duc Hot Springs card from **blondebear** yesterday. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/117 "2016-06-09T15:28:55Z")
I received two cards today from **Pai325**. A lovely drawing of Newt and a scene from Camp Grant. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/118 "2016-06-09T19:39:09Z")
I was out cutting back the weeds this morning and the post lady handed me the mail. In it were two, count them, two postcards. One from **davida03801** , and the other from **silenus**. Took the mail inside (partner’s passport finally arrived also) and he said to me, “who are the postcards from?” “I am in a postcard exchange.” “You’re in a wha-nevermind, of course you are.” 😃 Thank you. ---
**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 9, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/119 "2016-06-09T19:55:40Z")
Our pleasure. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001/120 "2016-06-10T02:06:57Z")
All cards mailed tonight. A little late, my apologies. I received a card from **MsJinx** , who sent a setting sun type of view of a classic Colorado mountain and pond. Makes me want to get on a horse and do cowboy things. **needscoffee** also sent a sunset, this one is over a Washington state marina filled with sailboats. The card is full of orangey reds from the sunset. Great depth of field, fantastic shot, everything is in focus from the foreground to infinity. Looks like the card had some trouble getting to me and took a second attempt at the address? Postage issue I’m guessing? BTW, I accidentally bought one too many postcards and postage to get to the USA. Any Dopers not on my list want a card from Canada? PM me your address and I’ll plunk it in the mail. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-summer-2016-postcard-exchange/755001.md?page=7)