# Time for the "Middle of 2015" Postcard Exhange! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507 "2015-07-07T21:08:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/141 "2015-08-12T23:52:58Z")
I got a postcard from **Grrlbrarian**! 😃 With a beautiful view of the Rocky Mountain National Park. Thank you very very much! It is a magnificent photo, which allows me to vicariously experience (even if only a little bit) the greatness of that place 🙂 THANKS! ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/142 "2015-08-13T00:18:28Z")
**Baker**! I got two cards from you today, one with bison, and the other with a map of Kansas and pictures of the State Bird, which is the Meadowlark, the State Flower- Sunflower (I knew that!), and the State Tree-Cottonwood. 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:** [August 13, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/143 "2015-08-13T06:18:17Z")
Still haven’t received any… ☹ ---
**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 13, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/144 "2015-08-13T17:45:42Z")
Sorry to hear it. Per the OP, _all_ cards to be in the mail by tomorrow - thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/145 "2015-08-13T17:59:12Z")
I sent the cards to **needscoffee** but there was a typo with the address they gave. So I’ll send again, no problem. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2015, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/146 "2015-08-13T23:12:33Z")
Hmmm…my cards to **davida03801** and **Why Child** should’ve shown up by now. They went out same day as the one to **silenius** and he got his on the 7th 😕 I have back-ups ready in case of non-delivery. ---
**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 14, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/147 "2015-08-14T00:14:04Z")
I have now received a Kansas Sunflower postcard with a Red Knot bird stamp from Baker, and 2 postcards from Cheez Whia: one featuring Cheez’s favorite produce stand, and one showing mines from the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859, both with pretty flower stamps. Thank you both! I’d have received them even sooner if I’d managed to type my own address correctly! ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/148 "2015-08-14T00:38:05Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I sent the cards to **needscoffee** but there was a typo with the address they gave. So I’ll send again, no problem. Ooh, didn’t know there was a typo. My card to \*\*needscoffee \*\*went out earlier this week but I would not be surprised to hear it hadn’t gotten there yet, distances being what they are–if the address was wrong, let me know and I’ll send something different. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/149 "2015-08-14T01:36:29Z")
I got a card from **Cheez\_Whia** today, with a note about Colorado peaches being in season. There’s a picture on the card of CW’s favorite fruit stand. Colorado peaches are my favorite variety. When my father was in high school he traveled to Grand Junction in the summers, to stay with a family his own knew. He’d work picking fruit, and especially peaces. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/150 "2015-08-14T01:38:41Z")
**Ulf** , I had a PM from **needscoffee** , I think they will get the cards after all. When the error was realized they contacted the PO, which is holding their cards. So tomorrow or the next day I expect they will have the cards. ---
**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 14, 2015, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/151 "2015-08-14T03:09:27Z")
:: steeples fingertips :: Excellent. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/152 "2015-08-14T03:38:58Z")
My cards are winging their ways out in the world - & i got an awesome set of Pompeii cards from JoseB and a beautiful card of Anderson Japanese gardens from Pai325! ---
**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:** [August 14, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/153 "2015-08-14T15:50:51Z")
Got another postcard today! 😃 Thank you, **Pai325**! 🙂 A beautiful view of the “Anderson Japanese Gardens”, complemented by a completely KICK-ASS postage stamp of Boba Fett in the back! ^.^ Thanks a lot! 😃 JoseB ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/154 "2015-08-14T22:20:40Z")
I got a postcard from **Ulf the Unwashed** , a cute picture of some choirboys crossing a city street while in their outdoor cloaks. Thanks! ---
**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 15, 2015, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/155 "2015-08-15T04:03:08Z")
I got another cool postcard from Baker, of cows lolling about the prairie in Flint Hills, Kansas - hills named by Zebulon Pike. Also received a postcard from Ulf the Unwashed, of “Rockford Peach”, one of the gals portrayed in “League of Their Own”, a postcard Ulf procured on a visit to Cooperstown, NY. I’ve never made it to Cooperstown, opting instead to go on a very cool tour of Hanford Mills, a water-powered sawmill in East Meredith, NY. I’ve received postcards from all three senders, now! Ahem! I would like to take this moment to announce that investigation reveals I did NOT forget my own address after all! It was submitted correctly, but happened to get changed slightly on the other end. I was, however, negligent in not double-checking it when the addresses were sent out. I’ll fully own up to negligence, rather than early senility, at least in this instance! ---
**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 15, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/156 "2015-08-15T04:16:56Z")
Duly noted. All postcards should have been in the mail no later than _yesterday_. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/157 "2015-08-15T06:24:36Z")
> [@JoseB](#): > > Got another postcard today! 😃 Thank you, **Pai325**! 🙂 > > A beautiful view of the “Anderson Japanese Gardens”, complemented by a completely KICK-ASS postage stamp of Boba Fett in the back! ^.^ > > Thanks a lot! 😃 > > JoseB I’m happy you like the stamp! I think I have two more Star Wars stamps, and then they’re gone. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/158 "2015-08-15T20:35:45Z")
Got two nice ones from **cheez-whia** : ghost towns in Colorado, and a farm market in the same state. I celebrated the latter’s arrival by eating a peach of my own. Thanks! I cast my bread upon the waters in the form of one postcard to each of my recipients, and as the proverb has it, 'twas returned to me an hundredfold–well, double, anyway, as I received more postcards than I sent out. To even the scales a bit, I sent a second round under the wire on Friday… ---
**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 15, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/159 "2015-08-15T20:40:08Z")
I got a postcard from _a hundred years ago!_ Although to be fair to the USPS, I believe **NuclearBombPop** mailed it just in the last couple weeks. The postcard depicts the streetcar that takes you from Minneapolis to the steamboat on Lake Minnetonka. Hmmm, I note the boat is called Minnehaha, does everything in Minnesota start with “minne”? Is it native american for “the” or something? ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/160 "2015-08-15T20:48:35Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > I got a postcard from _a hundred years ago!_ Although to be fair to the USPS, I believe **NuclearBombPop** mailed it just in the last couple weeks. The postcard depicts the streetcar that takes you from Minneapolis to the steamboat on Lake Minnetonka. Hmmm, I note the boat is called Minnehaha, does everything in Minnesota start with “minne”? Is it native american for “the” or something? FYI–A Minnesota state law requires that one-fourth (or more) of the names of “cities, towns, villages, counties, streets, avenues, roads, alleys, highways, pleasure boats, streetcars, and freight trains shall begin with the prefix ‘Minne.’” It is patterned after a similar law in Pennsylvania which requires that one-fourth (or more) of all highways in the state must be under construction at any given time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507.md?page=9)