# The Great Summer 2020 Doper Postcard Exchange! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 15, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863 "2020-05-15T16:05:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/121 "2020-06-14T01:59:29Z")
Hmmm…I’m a little concerned about the card I sent overseas two weeks ago. Hopefully the mail is only delayed and hasn’t gone missing along the way. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/122 "2020-06-14T02:47:24Z")
A magnificent red crested cockatoo (um, parrot? whatevs), complete with first-day-of-issue stamp :eek: 🆒 from **PT** in Australia! Thank you!! (Postcard with a picture of a cockatoo, I mean. Nobody so far has sent me an actual cockatoo, though that would be cool too.) ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/123 "2020-06-14T04:02:47Z")
Well there you go! In the trans-Pacific snail mail race the chocolates goes to the recipient furthermost from origin! By great circle navigation 8642 nm apparently. With the severe limits of international flights atm the postcard may well have got to New York via Shanghai and Anchorage. (If you want a real red crested cockatoo, I’m sorry but you are going to have to smuggle one out. :eek:) ---
**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 14, 2020, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/124 "2020-06-14T04:34:51Z")
> [@X.L.Lent](#): > > Cards away! Dropped off the postcards at the post office this morning. (Yes, I know I violated rule number 5 but I guess late is better than never). Indeed. Did anyone else _not_ send their postcards by Friday? ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/125 "2020-06-14T10:56:31Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Well, I didn’t realize so many of y’all were sending multiple cards! I only send 3 cards, one per recipient. If I should have sent 3 per recipient, I’ll make it up to them. > [@blondebear](#): > > Hmmm…I’m a little concerned about the card I sent overseas two weeks ago. Hopefully the mail is only delayed and hasn’t gone missing along the way. Your prayers have been answered (assuming you’re talking about me). On Saturday, June 13th, I received an envelope from you with one postcard (cool B&W picture of Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood) and a souvenir folder from Yellowstone, which reminds me I’d like to go there again. 1984 was some years ago. Stamp was cancelled on May 30th. Thank you blondebear! And in the same delivery I received an uncancelled 1 dollar Statue of Freedom stamp attached to a postcard of the Museum of Contemporary Art from Elendil’s Heir. The postcard is dated June 1st. Thank you Elendil’s Heir! [Okay, now I noticed it’s canceled on June 1st on the picture side.] Not too bad for timing. My mother-in-law’s letter (from PA) took six weeks and I am now “missing” two letters from my mother, but I managed to receive a package from her. ---
**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 14, 2020, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/126 "2020-06-14T12:43:17Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > In picking mine up, the postman dropped yet off another from **Teuton** this time featuring Concarneau - of which I’d never heard. (Google to the rescue! And a rabbit hole to fall down & pleasantly click around, reading … ) > > I couldn’t quite see the British stamps before - something about mental health, but it was obscured by the cancellation - but this stamp I think wasn’t even properly cancelled. It features two older folks putting their heads together over their tea very conspiratorially. > > “I can’t abide to see people gossiping.” > > That cracked me up, and imma send a picture of it to some friends. It’s very … apropos. Did you get a previous one? I don’t see a mention in the thread for one. The stamps I used are from Coronation Street, a long running TV soap which heavily features old people gossiping. I got another postcard yesterday, another from **romansperson** , featuring a cartoon pic of the future of library services! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/127 "2020-06-15T13:45:30Z")
I’d gotten three from **Teuton** sometime last week. My children neglected to tell me they had arrived and stashed them with the bills to be discovered last night. There is a very stern looking Ringtail Lemur from the Paignton Zoo, a striking montage from Brittany, and and a view of the vicarage and medieval church tower in Minehead. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/128 "2020-06-15T15:12:50Z")
I _ **completely** _ forgot that I had to report here when I had put my postcards in the mail!!! My apologies! I put the postcards in the mailbox last friday, June 12. However, I am afraid I missed the last collection, so they most likely will be going out for processing at the Dutch Post 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:** [June 15, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/129 "2020-06-15T15:30:00Z")
I got a card from **needscoffee** , it’s a wooden card which is a kit to build a little stegosaurus from. She wrote me that she got her inspiration from **The Butterfly’s Ghost** from last year’s postcard exchange. Now **The Butterfly’s Ghost** is a very close and dear friend of mine, and in the last exchange we sent these kind of wooden cards in a joint effort to our recipients, and now it comes back to me! Thank you very much. And I got a surprise bonus card from **Karen Lingel**! With a painting by Piet Mondrian from 1941 called “New York City III”. I got a very similar print by him called “[Broadway Boogie Woogie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Boogie_Woogie)” from 1942 on my sitting room wall I got me after having learned about it here at the board. So it totally matches my taste in art. Thank you too!. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/130 "2020-06-15T16:14:00Z")
Got a card from **old wench** from Pittsburgh. She works in a way high up office! ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/131 "2020-06-15T16:16:37Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > Has Aurora changed much since that ~1988 postcard? Nope. The riverboat is still there, as is the Paramount. Not much new down by the river. ---
**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 15, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/132 "2020-06-15T18:29:29Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I got a card from **needscoffee** , it’s a wooden card which is a kit to build a little stegosaurus from. She wrote me that she got her inspiration from **The Butterfly’s Ghost** from last year’s postcard exchange. Now **The Butterfly’s Ghost** is a very close and dear friend of mine, and in the last exchange we sent these kind of wooden cards in a joint effort to our recipients, and now it comes back to me! Thank you very much. I told this story to **The Butterfly’s Ghost** , and she asked me to send you, **needscoffee** , her best regards. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/133 "2020-06-15T22:23:51Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > Your prayers have been answered (assuming you’re talking about me). On Saturday, June 13th, I received an envelope from you with one postcard (cool B&W picture of Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood) and a souvenir folder from Yellowstone, which reminds me I’d like to go there again… Okay, cool! I’m glad that all of my cards have made it to their destinations. BTW, I still have a big stack of cards, including the vintage packets that I like to send out. If anyone is craving another bit of mail, I’d be happy to send something…just PM me! ---
**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 15, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/134 "2020-06-15T22:25:37Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > So it totally matches my taste in art. Thank you too!. Total serendipity! I am getting to the dregs of my art postcards. I only have one left: it’s a painting that looks like it was done in a few minutes by a bunch of toddlers with a box of crayons. So… anyone want a bonus postcard? (I’d hate to use it as a pity postcard; that’s just kicking someone while they’re down.) ---
**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 15, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/135 "2020-06-15T23:26:29Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > Total serendipity! I am getting to the dregs of my art postcards. I only have one left: it’s a painting that looks like it was done in a few minutes by a bunch of toddlers with a box of crayons. > > So… anyone want a bonus postcard? (I’d hate to use it as a pity postcard; that’s just kicking someone while they’re down.) \ I love the word serendipity, it’s one of my favorite words of the English language. It’s a word so unique that even German hasn’t a word for it and needs three words to express it, “Verkettung glücklicher Umstände”, “concatenation of lucky circumstances”. \ ---
**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 16, 2020, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/136 "2020-06-16T04:49:52Z")
I got a postcard today from\*\* penultima thule\*\* of a crane-like bird called a Brolga, which I have never even heard of. It includes a matching stamp with first-day-of-issue postmark. The painting/drawing is by John Gould from something called _The Birds of Australia: in seven volumes_. Does seven volumes mean the same thing in Australian as it does in American? Seven whole books of Australian brids? That’s a lot of birds. Thanks, **penultima thule**! ---
**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 16, 2020, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/137 "2020-06-16T05:14:05Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I told this story to **The Butterfly’s Ghost** , and she asked me to send you, **needscoffee** , her best regards. 🙂 I’m very happy to hear this! Please send her my regards as well! ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/138 "2020-06-16T06:08:42Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > The painting/drawing is by John Gould from something called _The Birds of Australia: in seven volumes_. Does seven volumes mean the same thing in Australian as it does in American? Seven whole books of Australian brids? That’s a lot of birds. That’s them. 681 species, 328 of them first described by Gould circa 1840: As due reward for effort they named the striking [Gouldian Finches](https://www.google.com/search?q=gouldian+finch&rlz=1C1GCEB_enAU850AU850&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjCluuI1YXqAhWYyzgGHdKrBmMQ_AUoAXoECB4QAw&biw=1920&bih=937) for him and his wife. [The Birds of Australia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_of_Australia_(Gould)#:~:text=The%20Birds%20of%20Australia%20was,published%20between%201851%20and%201869.). You’ll need to make do with the postcard, as the [lithographs](https://antiqueprintmaproom.com/prints-ephemera/birds/birds-john-gould-birds-australia) are a bit outside my budget. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/139 "2020-06-16T17:32:05Z")
And I have a full house! Or, in other words, I received two cards from **Silenus** , one in German, and one in French, quite apropos for Switzerland. Both are from Godzilla movies. Oddly enough one is canceled on June 1st and the other is canceled on June 2nd with American Flag and fishy stamps. Now I think it’s time for alcohol, as suggested by Silenus. Well, he said beer. I think I’ll get something harder. It’s after 17:00 here. Thank you Silenus! ---
**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 16, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/140 "2020-06-16T19:18:13Z")
De nada. Once again proving it’s 5 o’clock _somewhere_. Should be one more in the pipeline, probably postmarked June 3rd. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863.md?page=8)