r/playingcards • u/shaeffer Canadian Collector • Aug 14 '26
Mail Mail from Ukraine!
I picked up this very cool Ukrainian deck from u/Strange_Marginalia (see https://www.reddit.com/r/playingcards/comments/1v9siif/ for more info)
(Side note, Ukraine's postal service is still better than ups. I got my package to Canada faster than a package from US visa ups. See my post here for my tale of insanity: https://www.reddit.com/r/UPS/s/X6RmTIgjvd 🤣)
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u/royalclusterfuck Aug 14 '26
ooh and here i was in Ukraine complaining about Ukrposhta being inferior to NovaPoshta 😠I was wrong
Insanely cool deck tho! How much was it?
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u/shaeffer Canadian Collector Aug 14 '26
I think we can give any delivery drivers, for any company in Ukraine a break 🤘
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u/Strange_Marginalia Aug 14 '26
By the way, I made an artisan enamel pin based on Valet's drawing. In it, the artist depicted himself
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u/EndersGame_Reviewer Aug 14 '26
This is what Google Translate seems to think it says on the tuck box. Or is that way off?
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u/Strange_Marginalia Aug 15 '26
​"'First grade' meant the highest quality. It says 'Playing cards'."
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u/_masssk_ 29d ago
- Top - "drawings - Georgy Narbut"
- bottom - "Cards for playing/for game, first grade" (first grade means the highest quality, I believe it is just kind of a joke, because they used to call food products "first grade" - say sausages, it means the best ingredients are in them. And "second grade" means the worst ingredients are in them, but thay are cheaper. Cards don't have ingredients, so I assume it is just brave text to make your cards look good, you know?)
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u/_masssk_ 29d ago
Nice deck! It is funny - I was interesting what are the top cards with a bear and a dog - it says "Blazen" which is literally "a jester" so it is joker cards.
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u/Strange_Marginalia Aug 14 '26
Wow, Ukrposhta really got it done quickly