Monday, December 29, 2008

Love Postcards? Try PostCrossing!

Anyone that knows me knows I have a love of post cards. Whenever I go anywhere (outside of my own state of course) I make sure to pick up a few postcards that capture the area that I had been exploring. Whenever a friend goes on a vacation to somewhere new I always ask for them to bring me back some post cards which is most often well received because out of all the things that I could ask for, post cards have got to be the least expensive (and yes, it even beats shells from the beach because honestly, sometimes you just cannot find any good ones and who wants to spend their whole vacation scouring the beaches for a good shell?).
I was proclaiming my love of post cards on Twitter a couple of weeks ago when one of my friends told me about a little site called PostCrossing. This is a place where you can go and sign up to get postcards from around the world sent to you. The only catch is that you have to send some first! That's right, completely free (aside from the $0.90 international post card postage rate), very interesting and after finally sending out the five cards that I agreed to send out (the snow storm has kept me from going to the post office for over a week now) I can wait and see what shows up in my mail box :)

So far I have sent cards describing the Pacific Northwest to Finland, Tawain, Germany, and Estonia (if you are doing the math I actually got two different people from Finland). Anyone want a postcard? Let me know!

1 comment:

Martin Lindeskog said...

I have now created an account. Sounds like a splendid idea! I would love to get a postcard from Oregon! :)