Postcards from Florida and Indiana

This postcard is from Sara, she of the regular comments. Sara was visiting her mother in Florida and sent me this card while they were driving to St. Augustine.  She further told me that they were driving on the A1A “which I first heard of from Mr. Vanilla Ice!”  Good to know.  And I don’t catch the reference. (Sara and I, though we have shared friendship since high school, did not share music preferences during high school.)

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This postcard of stacks and stacks of books is form Claire in Elkhart Indiana and tells me, among other things, that she is 76 years old and has 10 children, one of who is adopted and just turned 20!

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(I’m beginning to reap my Postcrossing due diligence during winter break.  I’m hoping I can keep it up.)

2015 Postcrossing Stats

I didn’t send as many postcards in 2015 as I did in previous years.  I have a new plan for sending postcards in 2016, so hopefully next year’s statistics page will have larger numbers.

If you are interested in learning about Postcrossing, contact me, or read more about it on the Postcrossing site. It’s one of the more marvelous things on the internet.

Hello Patricia!

In 2015 your mailbox was happy 16 days!

Here are some more statistics about your account

in Postcrossing:

Your numbers
2015 Ever
Postcards sent 25 112
Postcards received 24 113
Country ranking
Rank
By sent 6704th
By distance 7064th

Country distribution

In 2015 you sent postcards to…

postcards sent

Country Sent Travel (avg)
Germany 6 16
Russia 6 20
U.S.A. 5 8
Taiwan 3 16
Australia 2 17
China 2 25
Czech Republic 1 10

In 2015 you received postcards from…

postcards sent

Country Received Travel (avg)
U.S.A. 5 6
Russia 4 28
Germany 3 10
Netherlands 3 16
Czech Republic 2 34
Austria 1 6
Belarus 1 38
China 1 27
Finland 1 14
France 1 7
Portugal 1 21
Slovakia 1 16

Top 3 favorite postcards

Sent by you in 2015
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3 favourites
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1 favourite
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1 favourite
All-time favorites
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9 favourites
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4 favourites
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3 favourites

Postcard from Santa Monica

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I love this postcard.  I love that I don’t understand why some of the cities are in ALL CAPS and some are not.  I love that I looked at all of the states I have lived in to see if I recognized the names (Idaho: yes, Missori: no, Oregon: yes, Massachusetts: wah-wah, no animal named towns).  I also love that the postcard description on the back does not at all match the image on the front.

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Good find, Jan!