Postcards

[liv]

I accidentally a New Year's resolution to send 40 postcards in 2020. I have an app, Touchnote, that sends physical postcards to anywhere in the world with a postal service, and I was trying to buy credits and my card got refused and I tried again, but actually the payment went through. I could try arguing with Touchnote over double charging me, or I could just send the postcards anyway. That's just about one per week, and would make a nice little challenge and a good way of keeping in touch.

If you would like a postcard, please LMK your physical address. I promise not to use it for any purposes, nefarious or otherwise, apart from sending you a postcard at some point during 2020. I'm entirely happy to send postcards to internet randoms, if you don't mind telling your address to an internet random.

Poll #23147 postcards

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 33

Postal address

Country

Name for addressing mail

Preferred picture subject

Nature
19 (57.6%)

Landmarks
12 (36.4%)

Something quirky
28 (84.8%)

People (with permission)
7 (21.2%)

Other (please specify)
6 (18.2%)

I would like a postcard with a picture of:

I would like my postcard during:

January
0 (0.0%)

February
0 (0.0%)

March
0 (0.0%)

April
0 (0.0%)

May
0 (0.0%)

June
2 (6.5%)

July
0 (0.0%)

August
0 (0.0%)

September
1 (3.2%)

October
0 (0.0%)

November
0 (0.0%)

December
0 (0.0%)

Don't mind
28 (90.3%)

Comments

[hunningham]

You know, a postcards sounds like a really nice idea right now.

[meepettemu]

Oh that’s interesting. I am a postcrossing person. If you don’t know it, you sign up with an address, complete a profile and then tick it want to send a postcard’. It then gives you one person’s address. You say you will send it, then your address is one of the next ones to pop up for some other random person :)

I did it a lot a couple of years ago but didn’t send any last year. I’m doing it again this year cos I love post!

[ambyr]

Using a poll instead of screened comments for this is brilliant. I’ll have to remember it next time I’m soliciting addessss.

[wrabbit]

I do postcrossing, too! I'd love to trade postcards.

[emperor]

OOI, does the app let you add text to the image at all?

[I have a vague need to print a climbing photo with some text at the bottom of date & place so it can go up at Harlow's wall of their climbers climbing, and haven't found the necessary faff-tuits yet]

[liv]

Yeah, it's pretty good. You can use one or several of your own photos, or found images, or a few default images the app provides. And you can add a short caption on the 'front', the image side, as well as postcard text on the back.

[emperor]

Thanks, might be worth me trying :)

[doseybat]

This post is reminding me of my failure on bring your birthday card on your birthday! Will check whether I have your full address for postage purposes

[rosefox]

I requested June because it's my birthday, but really anytime is fine! Thanks for doing this. :)

[teigh_corvus]

Mail is the best! Thank you for offering this. <3

[ayebydan]

I'm way too excited about this :D

[spidrak]

This is a fabulous idea, and thank you for being willing to send cards to complete randoms!

I think I first saw your journal via atreic and kept coming back because you often have interesting, thought-provoking things to say, so hello!

I'm another LJ exile, and I still feel like I ought to ask if it's okay to subscribe. Despite the fact that you're posting in public presumably means you don't mind internet randoms reading...

[squirmelia]

Thank you for the lovely tree postcard!