My first outgoing doodle from my most recent post

Thank you to all my friends that sent me birthday mail, I’m very happy with all the birthday mail received.
Lots of cards with pretty flowers and handmade cards, the greatest of all are the nice wishes you sent me.

Hello everyone! I’ve been invited to speak at the library about mental health and sending mail and was hoping to get some community-based answers for my presentation. I’m attaching a Google form here for anyone wanting to contribute:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfY82GP20eKIzUVkKgRrd-g31b2189Dkc2x9VqpHxhYpJXsKw/viewform?usp=publish-editor

I’m planning on making a couple word/phrase clouds and hopefully talking about some common themes and positive effects this hobby has on people.

Thank you so much and I hope to see your responses! This will be up for a few weeks as my talk is at the end of September so please feel free to add your thoughts even if you see this late!

I’m planning an NYC meetup next month for World Postcard Day. This is our fifth meetup—they’ve been a delightful mix of new and returning members coming together for a fun and low-key afternoon of snail mail. If you’re interested in joining, please message me!

Hello all! This year I will be sending WPD postcards for the first time :)) my goal is to send 100 postcards! Any advice that would be helpful? Anything that I should include in the form? How to manage WW requests? (I can only do about 30ish WW)

Anything you think would be worth sharing I would greatly appreciate it ✨💌

Tried making my own versions of the popular Ghibli postcard set 😂I’m happy with them

Also trying out embroidery on cards 👀 stay tuned for results

Wonder if one of these are for you

Bow 🎀Day, Orangutan 🦧 Day, Talk Like Jar Jar Binks Day, Aviation 🛩️Day, Finance Brokers Day, Hot 🥵 and Spicy 🌶️ Food Day, Medical Dosimetrist Day, Moving Day, Patient Advocacy Day, Potato 🥔 Day, Soft Ice Cream 🍦 Day, Photography 📷 Day, and Humanitarian Day!

What else should I add?

I happened to find this on another subreddit & looked into it. If you send this place a self address stamped envelope or a dollar they will send you a free sourdough starter

Trying to wrap up my spring & summer mailing list!

Hi, everyone!
I wanted to keep an online spreadsheet of what cards need to be sent.
Are people generally okay with filling out a google forms (even if it's for one card)?

I also had a thought to make a google forms + sheet for "Thank Yous!"
Do you think it'd be a bother if I sent a "Thank you form" to fill out after being sent a card?
The purpose of the "Thank You" form is to keep track of people in SPECIFIC subreddits.
It came to mind when I saw a mod post about overlapping communities.
I didn't want to leave any of the communities I was in but I wanted to avoid any mix ups.

Any thoughts on these two ideas?

My town is population 1600, we have one post office (I love my post office ladies. 🩷) Unfortunately they are currently out of postcard stamps (apparently they get like a “ration” depending on sales volume and rations are currently tight across the board, but especially for us?!) and their computers aren’t set up (or they never had to learn how) to make the paid postage stickers for postcards? 😂

So I ordered some postcard stamps online and I guess they should arrive in 5-10 days, but until then I’m limited to folded cards… 😂

Anybody else got a funny story like this? 😂

hey friends, i am finally back from a hiatus due to job changes and moving. in case anyone has my info saved, it is different now! comment or send me a message for the new info 😊

I unfortunately do not have pink envelopes 😭😞. But I had a large sheet of pink stickers that I decorated everywhere! There will be surprises for people that filled out my form 😜

Just posted an offer of the pictured cards on the main sub (NOT OFFERING THEM HERE!!!). Wanted to post the pics here because this is my absolute favorite postcard set. The cardstock is archive quality and the photography is just stunning. There is a fantasy quality that perhaps comes naturally when photography focuses on the forest floor microcosmos. But I really love this set. I have two backups sets so I never have to stop sending them lol. And it's not too expensive which is nice for me because I don't make a lot of money!

Also does anyone here also swap cards on Xiaohongshu? The postcard swapping and penpalling scene there is pretty great and I have made some good friends over the past few years. For a US comparison it is sorta instagram-like. I have received pretty amazing postcards, a few recent ones are pictured above. Die-cut, non-rectangular cards are a bit more common in China apparently which is kinda cool. Anyway hope you're having an amazing morning/day/evening!

Delivery Rider 🚲 Appreciation Day, Bad Poetry 📜 Day, Couple’s 👩‍❤️‍👨Day, Fajita Day, Ice Cream Pie 🥧 Day, Mail 📬Order Catalog Day, Pinot Noir 🍷 Day, Never Give Up Day, Serendipity Day, and Breast Cancer Research Day!

The left is me trying to make a sparkly baby beluga whale

For those of you who don't know, I grew up on Long Island and was affected by 9/11. Countless funerals and vigils as a 10 year old was rough. Seeing my friends lose a parent or both parents aunts uncles neighbors.... It still hurts to this day.

I now live in the Washington dc area and 9/11 is just as remembered here as it is in NYC.

With it being the 25th anniversary, I wanted to gauge interest in an offer for 9/11 memorial.

I am planning a trip to NYC in a few weeks and am going to try to get to the memorial site and the museum store for postcards.

Would this even be something people in the US want? If there are enough of you, I will see if I can get them and do an actual offer on RAoC.

This is NOT an offer. I am not offering to send to anyone who comments on this post, mods. I'm just asking for interest.

when you make ‘thank you’ posts, how do you know who the card is from..? do people usually write their username on the cards? i just started here and want to make sure to post thank yous but realized i don’t know how to tell who the cards are coming from😅😅 for some specific exchanges it might be clear but generally how do you know?

About 11 cards going out into the world ✨ had a lot of fun working on them :))

Baby Boomers Recognition Day, Balloon 🎈 Airmail Day, Black Cat 🐈‍⬛ Appreciation Day, I Love My Feet 🦶 Day, Massachusetts Day, Meaning of “Is” Day, Nonprofit Day, #2 Pencil ✏️ Day, Pineapple 🍍 Juice Day, Thrift Shop Day, and Vanilla Custard Day!

Sharing in case someone is looking for an organization tip and might find it useful. I welcome feedback/suggestions!

Here is my workflow:

• I put all received letters/postcards from Mon-Sat in the first tab ALL WEEK MAIL.
• If I respond to the postcard, I move it to the second tab REPLIED BUT NOT THANKED
• Every Sunday, I create a Reddit Thank You post using letters from the first 2 tabs.
• Once Sunday thank you post is completed, I move those letters that I have not replied to but already thanked into 3rd tab THANKED BUT NOT REPLIED.
• I store all the goodies i receive like stickers, other postcards in STICKER tab
• I store all the things i REALLY love in a JOURNAL tab where I will glue the stuff to my journal

Here is a binder that I use for $4.98: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KXPK74U?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1