Thanks for the correction, Baker. The spreadsheet has been updated accordingly.
I wish the USPS put the actual VALUE of all of their stamps ON them!
I had to look up my “Global Forever” stamps to make sure they were the correct postage, as I’d never heard of them (my wife bought them)
The only things I actually mail nowadays are postcards and shot glasses for Dopers!
My three postcards go out tomorrow.
Two domestic, and one will “cross the pond”
That’s pretty much the only reason we have any stamps around the house as well!
Got a postcard from phouka yesterday: a nice shot of “The luminescent Dallas skyline at night [which] can be seen shining bright from miles away”. Thanks!
I also got another card yesterday, this time from Grrlbrarian. It’s an incredibly beautiful shot of the Illinois river valley. Makes me want to go visit! Thanks so much.
Excellent! Get those updates coming. 
My cards have officially been mailed now
I have got a postcard from Oregon! With a map of Oregon on!
From…?
I just got my first postcard - a very cool looking one from a historical museum in Texas from Faithfool!
Cards were POSTED yesterday … finally! One (the intl. one) has a very coooooool round stamp! Watch for it 
Happy I am to play postcards / just found a stash of relatively vintage cards at the flea market down the road … if there is another round, I’ll pick some up from there.
There were “also” TWO sets of commemorative teacups/saucers for the lovely Queen Elizabeth’s coronation / 1953 … not cheap now, but lovely nonetheless.
I collect old Brit commemorative china/pressed glass from Victoria’s days. Like you needed to know. :smack: Shot glass exchange, anyone :o
Woot! Glad you like it. My folks actually got to see that mural, after it had been transplanted to the new biblical museum (when the old one died in a fire). She said it was truly amazing. I just wish I could’ve seen it as a little kid. It was only on a street corner then.
ETA: Sorry! I botched up the quote by using the wrong person’s. Anyway, this is the right one now.
I got another postcard today. This a lovely picture of Dallas at night from phouka, who apparently looked up the city I live in to learn that we have 2 sister cities in Burkina Faso. I didn’t know that (and I’m not sure I’d ever looked up much information about Decatur! Now I’ve at least skimmed the wikipedia entry 
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Thanks!
Also, phouka has lovely penmanship!
Just got a collection of eight (!) postcards and two tourist pamphlets from a person who did not include her username in the packet. Upon checking my list of postcard recipients, however, I see it’s Baker. Thanks - much obliged! The cards showing the glass model of the USS Constitution and the fossilized fish-within-a-fish are the best IMHO.
Dang, I did forget the username! Glad you liked the cards, they are a chronicle of my recent vacation.
If you liked the ship you really should read this Wikipedia article about the glassblower Mitsugi Ohno, who created it. Read the section about the Klein bottle, my sister is lucky enough to own one. I also own a very small piece he created, two cranes. Mitsugi Ohno - Wikipedia
**Baker **may forget to put her Doper handle on stuff, but we’ve exchanged items in so many swaps that I recognize the return address!
Cool stuff - a bunch of Kansas postcards (which appeal to me since my father was from Kansas) and erection information.* Tres kewl! Thanks, Baker!
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- Actually just one of the subheadings on the information sheet Baker enclosed about the subject of one of the postcards - “Big Brutus,” an 1850-B Electric Shovel, the world’s largest.
Hurrah hurrah! I came back from my six days’ vacation to find 2 cards from Fluffy Picklesniffer and 1 from faithfool. What a wonderful homecoming!
I loved the vintage postie of the State Fair: nice “Cotton Bowl!” And thanks, Fluffy, for the lovely Wis woods and the cow dairy-air… I love purple cows. 
Thanks again, ladies, for the treat!
A couple of cool postcards from Lsura were in my mailbox today. One was a triptych of the Federal Reserve Bldg in Atlanta and the other was a vintage image of the Minnesota 2nd monument from the Chickamauga National Battlefield. (I think I took a photo of that same monument when I was there!)
You’re most welcome! Out of all the vintage cards I bought, the one of the State Fair was my favorite. Of course, I’m partial to anything to do with amusement parks and rides, so there’s that. Glad you enjoyed it.
Wow! The cards are flying fast and furious! Great work, everyone.
I know that **Teuton **got the card that I mailed “across the pond,” but I’m wondering if **Labtrash **and **Atomic Mama ** have received theirs from me. I mailed them all on the same day and can’t believe that one would get overseas before the ones were delivered State-side. My three recepients will each be getting two cards from me, mailed a week apart, unless my first ones have gone astray, which means the second ones could, too . . . . Dagnabbitt!