More postcards!
Some of you may recall that I started a postcard ‘ring’ back in 2006 on a different blog. I’ve loved giving and receiving postcards since I was a little girl, though. I’ve told a fib. I never got any as a child. My mother and Old Helen(like a grandmother, her property abutted ours, we shared grazing lands, firewood, produce from garden, vineyards, etc.) got postcards and I would beg to look through them over and over.
This week, I received a fairy and an old redhead from one redhead to my redhead!
Thanks to Laurie …
and
Laurie!
Laurie (Canada) also sent a sheet of .60 stamps, which helps. Interestingly…since I normally send postcards — and I buy directly from the counter at the Post Office, I looked up what I’ll need to pop them up to the standard rate.
My post office has been charging me .85 to mail A POSTCARD to Canada. Erm…Per USPS, first class large postcard = .46 and normal postcards should be .33.
I’ve been gouged, I say, I say!
And USPS cries that nobody uses them anymore? Well, I’ve been regularly paying MORE THAN DOUBLE. I just said a very bad word that starts with a c and ends with mostly consonants…with one vowel.
ANYWAY I still love to send and receive postcards, even if they have to go through the USPS, who are obviously villains.
Glad to see it got there!
Thank you, yes! I only knew that the Cuba (from Cuba) didn’t come but of course you mailed one when you got back home that you’d brought a stack with you.
When I lived in France, apparently, of the say…100 postcards I sent, about TWENTY made it. I blamed France because almost none of them were going to where my parents live (which has its own delivery issues).
I sent you one from Montreal in September, and one from Hawaii in early November that I don’t think made it to you, either.
Disappointing!
Especially since the Montreal one had a spine on it! It was just around the time you were posting about your spinal diagnosis.
Well, patooie on this postal service. It sounds like it sucks worldwide.
Yours always get to me, though. I think you’re charmed by the postal gods in that way.
Yay!
Oops, I thought I was replying to MT in that last comment, because she sends me far more postcards than I deserve. Not that you aren’t charmed in your own way, Larui.
Lol..well, I knew I had sent you a couple…but not in some time! And I am doing lettermo, even if it takes until June!
Maybe all the bad juju was used up en France!
Direct message me your address. I’m not sure I still have it. And I have a PC SET ASIDE to send you. Haha.