# 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:** 9
**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 24, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/161 "2020-06-24T16:02:21Z")
In the mailbox yesterday, all the way from Switzerland, a card from **Die\_Capacitrix**. A beautiful aerial view of Lucerne, with Stanserhorn mountain in the background, one of her favorite places. Thank you! ---
**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 24, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/162 "2020-06-24T21:08:14Z")
I have received 2 furreign cards, one from **Jose B** in The Haag, aka The Hague and one from Graeme **penultimate thule** \*from the Land Down Under. The Australian card depicts a kukkaburra, and I think the stamp is a first issue. The Hague card shows the old Parliament in front of new buildings. Both cards are fun! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/163 "2020-06-25T00:45:41Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > 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.) Got mine from **PT** as well: a Wedge-tailed Eagle, also stamped first day of issue (the card, that is). Fabulous; thanks so much! ---
**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 25, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/164 "2020-06-25T14:31:22Z")
I just got my postcard from **Die\_Capacitrix** , too (a little over two weeks in transit), a nice color photomontage of Rothenburg, Switzerland. Looks like a charming town. That was the last postcard I was expecting. Thanks! ---
**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 25, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/165 "2020-06-25T17:32:05Z")
Me, too. Lovely looking town, with a pretty bridge and tower. ---
**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 26, 2020, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/166 "2020-06-26T03:43:16Z")
Here comes another one… This time it’s a view of St Paul’s Cathedral from the (once resonating) Millennium Bridge from **peedin** no less, just a hop, step and an intercontinental jump from Illinois. Post marked 6th June. Excellent! Thank you very much. The score ties up at 4-6/4-6 out/in 🤩 On review I’ve missed the reports of arrival of the last two of my outbound so 6-6/4-6 it is! ---
**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 27, 2020, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/167 "2020-06-27T06:16:29Z")
Okay, should have finished reading the thread. Glad you all got my postcards. Finally So far the longest transit time is two MONTHS from PNW to Switzerland (letter from my mom to me). Normal is less than two weeks. ---
**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 28, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/168 "2020-06-28T18:05:17Z")
So, I’ve had some more postcards arrive, and now I’ve found this thread again so I can tell you! @romansperson has sent me one from the Carolinas Aviation Museum, featuring a A-7E Corsair II and a A-4D Douglas Skyhawk. @purplehorseshoe has sent a ‘second wave’ postcard featuring a painting called Summer by Georges Barbier, all very 1920s . And @Mollie_Magill , whose name I hope I’ve got right on this new board, has sent a postcard of the Parthenon replica in Tennessee! ---
**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 28, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/169 "2020-06-28T18:27:08Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > In the mailbox yesterday, all the way from Switzerland, a card from **Die\_Capacitrix**. A beautiful aerial view of Lucerne, with Stanserhorn mountain in the background, one of her favorite places. Thank you! Strangely enough Facebook just reminded me that I was at Stanserhorn exactly one year ago. Haven’t been this year, hopefully I’ll get there. ---
**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 28, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/170 "2020-06-28T19:33:10Z")
> [@Teuton](#): > > And @Mollie_Magill , whose name I hope I’ve got right on this new board, has sent a postcard of the Parthenon replica in Tennessee! You got it! I was getting worried my chicken scratch handwriting was too much for the post office. ---
**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 28, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/171 "2020-06-28T19:36:20Z")
I did! It actually turned up a couple of weeks ago, it’s just been hectic and board changes and all sorts of stuff going on. ---
**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 29, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/172 "2020-06-29T13:28:37Z")
Received today from @Allecher a cosmic view of the Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy, if I didn’t feel inadequate enough as it is. And probably the coolest stamp I have ever seen … a Forever/USA Total Solar Eclipse. Wowsers! **Thank you!** PT score now 6-6/5-6! ---
**Author:** ![Allecher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Allecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allecher)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/173 "2020-06-29T19:13:43Z")
@penultima_thule I hope you noticed that the stamp is heat sensitive! ---
**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 30, 2020, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/174 "2020-06-30T08:37:26Z")
… and in today’s post comes the final piece of the PT 2020 postcard puzzle with a bucolic pastoral scene from upstate NY courtesy of @kimstu. Very good. Thank you! 6-6/6-6 ---
**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 30, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/175 "2020-06-30T16:40:06Z")
Excellent! Anyone else still waiting on a postcard(s)? ---
**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 30, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/176 "2020-06-30T18:47:53Z")
@JoseB doesn’t seem to have received my postcard. 😢 ---
**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:** [July 2, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/177 "2020-07-02T20:07:24Z")
I have received 2 postcards. I guess that the third is somewhere in postal limbo…! Oh well, them’s the breaks. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/178 "2020-07-02T20:15:16Z")
Wish I’d seen this thread in time… > [@JoseB](#): > > I guess that the third is somewhere in postal limbo…! My birthday card took 46 days to get here from Australia. Normal time is about a week. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/179 "2020-07-03T17:48:28Z")
> [@JoseB](#): > > I have received 2 postcards. I guess that the third is somewhere in postal limbo…! Oh well, them’s the breaks. Please PM the person from whom you’re still expecting a card. Thanks. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2020, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/180 "2020-07-03T23:54:28Z")
@JoseB, is mine the one that is missing? I still have international stamps, I can send another one. It might be that toddler/crayon one… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863.md?page=10)