# 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:** 9
**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:** [August 18, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/161 "2021-08-18T02:00:07Z")
FINALLY! I can only imagine that all the post offices from here to there are filled with people who are aficionados of vintage-ish postcards from the middle of nowhere! And I used all my international stamps, so next year there will be new ones! ---
**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:** [August 18, 2021, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/162 "2021-08-18T02:49:59Z")
Huzzah! ---
**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:** [August 18, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/163 "2021-08-18T04:41:36Z")
I seem to be two outbound cards short of a full deck. @Allecher and @ToadBuddy Can you please confirm receipt still pending? ---
**Author:** ![Allecher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Allecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allecher)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/164 "2021-08-18T13:51:40Z")
Ah yes, @penultima_thule I did receive a beautiful bonus card from you. Thanks for sending!! ---
**Author:** ![ToadBuddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/toadbuddy/32/8320_2.png) [@ToadBuddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToadBuddy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/165 "2021-08-18T23:19:11Z")
Sorry @penultima_thule, nothing received yet. Our post has been quite slow as of late so I really wasn’t too worried. But since you’ve asked, have you received your postcard from the Great White North yet? Thanks for following up. ~ToadBuddy ---
**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:** [August 19, 2021, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/166 "2021-08-19T01:01:00Z")
@ToadBuddy only just got a a card from sunny California @Karen_Lingel so on the assumption that posties are people too and I understand trudging through 2m of snow is a year round fact of life in Canada, then if it arrives before Australia gets out of lockdown, that would be a pleasant bonus. 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![ToadBuddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/toadbuddy/32/8320_2.png) [@ToadBuddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToadBuddy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/167 "2021-08-19T02:26:17Z")
Ah @penultima_thule, the hazards of the hemispheres. Hopefully your postie is able to evade the myriad of killer ‘everything’ that lives there and delivers the postcard posthaste. Our provincial government is so flippy floppy that most of us don’t know if we’re in lockdown or not, but the good news is is that we’re at Stage 3, and that’s apparently a good thing. ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯ ---
**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:** [August 19, 2021, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/168 "2021-08-19T23:27:21Z")
I received a very fun postcard today from @JaneDoe42 featuring Route 66. Many thanks! ---
**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:** [August 20, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/169 "2021-08-20T01:35:42Z")
I’m happy you enjoyed it! ---
**Author:** ![ToadBuddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/toadbuddy/32/8320_2.png) [@ToadBuddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToadBuddy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/170 "2021-08-24T23:17:56Z")
Today I received my postcard from @penultima_thule with a gorgeous illustration of a Kuhl’s Ghost Crab. Thank you so much! ~ToadBuddy ---
**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:** [August 26, 2021, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/171 "2021-08-26T04:19:56Z")
Today I learned that if someone is clever enough to print photos on the right sized card stock, a pic of a fabulous yawning cat can be used as a postcard. Thanks @needscoffee I love her bold splashes of color! ---
**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:** [August 26, 2021, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/172 "2021-08-26T05:22:11Z")
Glad it made it there! (it was just printed on 8-1/2 x 11 and trimmed, nothing fancy!) ---
**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:** [September 11, 2021, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/173 "2021-09-11T07:37:12Z")
Oh yee of little faith or patience … the postie continues to deliver! Friday’s post brings me news of “The Golden Horseshoe” from @ToadBuddy and, repeat **AND** an a very appropriately themed postcard from @needscoffee and I am particularly impressed with the stamps. Bewdy bonzer. Thank you. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2021, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/174 "2021-09-11T12:56:31Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > Oh yee of little faith or patience … the postie continues to deliver! Glad it made it down there! ---
**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:** [September 11, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/175 "2021-09-11T15:40:56Z")
Thanks for the update. Has anyone not received at least three postcards by now? ---
**Author:** ![ToadBuddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/toadbuddy/32/8320_2.png) [@ToadBuddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToadBuddy)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/176 "2021-09-11T20:34:47Z")
Glad to see it finally made it! ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/177 "2021-09-12T03:13:22Z")
My postcard finally made it! Just showed up~has so many postmarks on it I can’t read them all! One was August 9th in St. Louis. It’s an adorable card. Cute Amish kids on homemade wooden scooters heading down the road to school in Pennsylvania. I’d love to know where it’s been all these weeks. The stories it could probably tell! It definitely led a more exciting life than I do. Thank you, @needscoffee. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/178 "2021-09-12T03:15:55Z")
LOL, I imagine that postcard saying “Direct mail? Screw that nonsense — I’m gonna see the world!” ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/179 "2021-09-12T03:21:27Z")
Really, the postmark area is one big smudge, except for St Louis, Aug 9th. It must have been lots of other fascinating places. I hope it enjoyed the local cuisine and museums for me in all those places, whatever they were. Those cute Amish kids had quite the summer jetting around on their scooters. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2021, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355/180 "2021-09-12T04:04:17Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > My postcard finally made it! > > Just showed up~has so many postmarks on it I can’t read them all! One was August 9th in St. Louis. Holy smokes, I dropped it off at the post office on July 16! It must have gone pony express! Glad you finally got it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2021-doper-postcard-exchange/945355.md?page=10)