# The Great Summer 2021 Doper Postcard Exchange! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355 "2021-06-30T19:31:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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 18, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/41 "2021-07-18T21:47:52Z")
See Rules 1 and 4. Only one postcard per person is expected. But if you want to send more, you certainly may. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/42 "2021-07-19T19:12:57Z")
Sent my cards out this morning. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/43 "2021-07-19T19:21:50Z")
And the first in the gate is … **@silenus**! I got a card from him today with a picture from Bandelier National Monument. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/44 "2021-07-19T21:07:20Z")
Postcards posted. This was the first time the mail person had ever sold postage for a postcard headed to Europe, so we both got to do new and interesting for the first time. ---
**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 19, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/45 "2021-07-19T22:36:23Z")
Just one more thing for which to love the Dope. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2021, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/46 "2021-07-20T04:07:48Z")
Got my first postcard! It’s from @dbygawdcapn (boy, am I glad for discourse’s autofill of @ names) of a quaint town, the site of Maryland’s first settlement. Thanks, @dbygawdcapn! ---
**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:** [July 20, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/47 "2021-07-20T14:33:18Z")
And…another card received from **dbygawdcapn**! Mine featured a photo of a Tobacco Barn\* from, as the note says, “The land of pleasant living”. Thanks! \*are there still “mail pouch” barns out there? ---
**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 20, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/48 "2021-07-20T16:41:47Z")
Yesterday’s mail brought me two postcards from @Elendil_s_Heir: one of the Cleveland Guardians, massive sculptures on the Lorain-Carnegie bridge, who apparently hand-carry tanker trucks across. Or maybe he is just saying a prayer over the tanker truck? The second is a beautiful courtyard of the Gardner Museum in Boston. I’ve never been to Boston, but when I go, I will _definitely_ visit this. Thank you **Elendil\_s\_Heir**!! ---
**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:** [July 21, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/49 "2021-07-21T01:21:32Z")
The card I got today from **Allecher** sucks, but in a good way: it’s an image of a steamboat on the Arkansas River with _The Legend of Toad Suck_ emblazoned above it. The text on the back explains the legend behind the annual “Toad Suck Daze” festival. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/50 "2021-07-21T07:54:40Z")
Lost luggage returned from 34th anniversary trip, postcards recovered and will be mailed out tomorrow. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/51 "2021-07-21T14:04:21Z")
Aw, drat. I missed the thread. Probably for the best, as we didn’t go anywhere this year, and about the only place to get postcards around here is downtown, which (with all the unmasked and unvaccinated drunk folks wandering around) you couldn’t pay me enough to go to. I hope everyone has fun, and I’ll live vicariously through you all. ---
**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 21, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/52 "2021-07-21T14:35:06Z")
Anyone who would like to exchange postcards with **Maus\_Magill** , please PM the Doper. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Lost luggage returned from 34th anniversary trip, postcards recovered and will be mailed out tomorrow. See Rule 7, please, and thanks! ---
**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:** [July 21, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/53 "2021-07-21T16:07:04Z")
No worries - I have no postcards this year to send out. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/54 "2021-07-21T19:22:15Z")
I received my nifty postcards from @silenus and _TWO_ from @romansperson (and yes, I often DO have one of those hair days!) Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/55 "2021-07-21T19:33:18Z")
Today I got lovely postcards from @Elendil_s_Heir and @Karen_Lingel, thank you both! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/56 "2021-07-21T20:17:01Z")
Sorry about that, Chief. They have been mailed. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/57 "2021-07-22T01:19:51Z")
I received my Legend of Toad Suck postcard from **Allecher** today. It sounds like a cool inspiration for a local festival to me! ---
**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 22, 2021, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/58 "2021-07-22T13:05:46Z")
No worries, **Czarcasm** , and thanks! Yesterday I got two cards from **Karen\_Lingel** : a picture of the tourist boat _St. Charles Belle II_ on the Fox River, and a 1981 photo of Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan taken at the White House. 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:** [July 22, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/59 "2021-07-22T14:08:32Z")
3 cards from @romansperson arrived yesterday! Lisboa, A Christmas Story and Dogs on the Intrawebs. Thank you! ---
**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:** [July 22, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/60 "2021-07-22T14:22:07Z")
Weird. I mailed those on 3 different days, and yet they all showed up at the same time! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355.md?page=4)