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.
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.)
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:)
Indeed. Did anyone else not send their postcards by Friday?
I only send 3 cards, one per recipient. If I should have sent 3 per recipient, I’ll make it up to them.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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” 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!.
Got a card from old wench from Pittsburgh. She works in a way high up office!
Nope. The riverboat is still there, as is the Paramount. Not much new down by the river.
I told this story to The Butterfly’s Ghost, and she asked me to send you, needscoffee, her best regards. 
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!
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.)
<off topic> 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”. </off topic>
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!
I’m very happy to hear this! Please send her my regards as well!
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 for him and his wife.
The Birds of Australia.
You’ll need to make do with the postcard, as the lithographs are a bit outside my budget.
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!
De nada. Once again proving it’s 5 o’clock somewhere. Should be one more in the pipeline, probably postmarked June 3rd.
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