Tanzanian Post Card Service (Pretty Cool)
Nov 9, 2015, 8:32 pm
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Tanzanian Post Card Service (Pretty Cool)
I can't have souvenirs, so I send myself postcards from places I visit. I sent one from Tanzania. Just a blank card with an address. Well, it arrived. Someone had added some jovial Swahili greetings in red script. 155 countries; first time that's happened. Yes, I suppose someone could get in trouble for it (dumb rule), and some sender/recipient could be upset, but I was delighted.
thats great service
Nov 10, 2015, 7:32 am
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Congrats! I'm still waiting on mail from Europe that was sent weeks ago. Then again, mail from Warsaw, Poland took three months to arrive but all the postcards made it.
Nov 10, 2015, 11:21 am
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I'm still waiting, 18 months later, for 16 postcards from Ecuador. I put the correct postage on them, addressed them correctly, dropped them in an official mail box outside a first-class hotel and not one person received their cards. Not one. Obviously some postal employee got the benefit of steaming off my stamps.
Nov 10, 2015, 11:26 am
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I'm still waiting, 18 months later, for 16 postcards from Ecuador. I put the correct postage on them, addressed them correctly, dropped them in an official mail box outside a first-class hotel and not one person received their cards. Not one. Obviously some postal employee got the benefit of steaming off my stamps.
Nov 10, 2015, 2:01 pm
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I'm still waiting, 18 months later, for 16 postcards from Ecuador. I put the correct postage on them, addressed them correctly, dropped them in an official mail box outside a first-class hotel and not one person received their cards. Not one. Obviously some postal employee got the benefit of steaming off my stamps.
Nov 10, 2015, 2:15 pm
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Nov 10, 2015, 2:46 pm
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Of the 155 postcards I've sent (that's my country count - probably pretty close to postcard count), I think I've received all but one card: The Gambia.
I'm drawing a blank, but there was one place where I waited three years, but it did show up.
Considering the fact that most of my discretionary travel is in the Developing World, and it dates back 30 years, I think that's pretty remarkable.
I'm drawing a blank, but there was one place where I waited three years, but it did show up.
Considering the fact that most of my discretionary travel is in the Developing World, and it dates back 30 years, I think that's pretty remarkable.
Nov 10, 2015, 2:58 pm
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I've heard that when stuff is sent to the dead-letter office, it's literally shredded. But with stories of things taking years to be delivered, I wonder where it goes and what happens.
Nov 10, 2015, 9:27 pm
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In 1998 we mailed postcards from Turkmenistan to the US. Some of them had been purchased in Uzbekistan (and thus had Uzbek pictures on them). They all had Turkmen postage as they were all sent from a Turkmen post office.
None of the cards with Uzbek pictures arrived. All the Turkmen ones arrived just fine.
None of the cards with Uzbek pictures arrived. All the Turkmen ones arrived just fine.
Nov 24, 2015, 7:59 am
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sending postcard
As asn artisy I have often sketched or painted a watercolor impression either on a postcard, (just to the left of the address, where a message would have been written) or on a standard size airmail envelope. I've never lost one yet. The longest to arrive was from Bangkok to Mexico, which took 3 months.
I've exhibited and sold some of them over the years.
For a general review of the subject just google "postal art". It has a long and rich history.
I've exhibited and sold some of them over the years.
For a general review of the subject just google "postal art". It has a long and rich history.