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u/No-Condition5102 I love the random card! I really miss eating sushi. I have an allergy to several common ingredients and there's too much cross-contamination to eat it, but my spouse is going to a 12 seat omakase later this month.

u/listen-to-rach-2 thank you for the Ghibli postcard! the first time watching a Ghibli movie really is a magical experience!

u/GatsbyGalaktoboureko thank you for the destash card! I've never been to a stamp show or a meetup, I hope I can do so in the future! Maybe after I move

u/Marbled-Godwit22 I hope you enjoyed the theatre festival! It sounds like a lot of fun. I'm obsessed with the washi tape you used and just love the Women Icons postcards.

u/ToastyToska thank you for the Beanie Baby postcard! I think I still have over 100 Beanie Babies in storage. I used to have them all displayed with my pillow pets and Squishmallows but now I need my background clear for video meetings WFH. Next place I hope to bring them back out again.

u/MajesticLeadership87 thank you for the Peanuts card! The matching stamp was a nice surprise. The Mall of America will never be the same without Camp Snoopy. Which makes me feel old because it's been Nickelodeon Universe since.....2008 OPE.

u/CrystalMoth thank you for the vintage stamps/vintage MPLS postcard! I love the Girl Scouts one the most but they're all great. I haven't seen any of the 4 before.

u/NeuroSpicyEnby LOVE your handle. I can definitely relate. I also get exhausted trying to carve out space that should already exist for me.

u/SelfiesWithCats thank you for the Vatican postcard! I also love dark/quiet especially with great architecture and art.

u/f1uffybunnies thank you for the RAOC getting to know you challenge card! I also dislike social media and am so bad about checking my reddit for RAOC stuff. The orange butter cake sounds amazing!

u/PinkPengin thank you for the International Non-Binary Awareness card! I've got it up on my wall at my desk because it's the first genderqueer thing I have!

Hello!

Without revealing any personal details, my lovely spouse has not been employed in their field for almost two years. In May, they got an AMAZING job offer and we're waiting on a lengthy background check process that's supposed to take months.

My spouse was really early career after spending their entire 20s getting a PhD and postdoc and then getting what was supposed to be the dream job but was a nightmare. It's been a horrific job market for this specific field the last few years and now there's a bright light at the end of the tunnel.

I'm asking for cards to help them celebrate this big career job!

We're currently living in my spouse's hometown and will be incredibly sad to leave for this job despite being excited about the job.

Spouse's likes: green, blue, running (5k and 10k mostly), backpacking and hiking, cycling, coffee, cooking, eating out at restaurants, reading, crossword, travel, sailing, outdoors especially mountains, N/A beers and crafted mocktails

Dislikes: AI, religion, politics (actually he loves politics but I think this is best left off a card from an internet stranger), alcohol

Cards can come to me marked somehow as for my spouse. I won't open anything in an envelope in advance. Postcards are very appreciated and welcomed! I want to give them mail to open when we have our start date celebration. In theory this will be in the next 3 months, mostly likely much sooner. I'd post one big thank you post after the start date celebration, so you should be okay with a delayed thank you post.

If you have an address for me in a city that is a famous tourist destination, that's the most up to date.

Thank you in advance RAOC!!

Spouse and I got coordinating custom tattoos that are extremely meaningful to us individually and to our relationship on Saturday. It's my spouse's very first tattoo which makes it even more special.

Last year after I got a tattoo from an artist before she moved back to Asia, my JNMIL was SO upset that I spent the money and the time etc.

We had plans to meet up with JNMIL and my FIL after our tattoos and sure enough, she's just grabbing at our bodies and getting upset when we say not to touch. We're at a dark music venue and she's putting on her flashlight and trying to take shitty photos of them covered in the second skin. She's then pulling up Instagram and finding our artist and pointing out flash that's similar to our tattoos (we went to this artist because she specialized in a specific style).

She loudly announces "I'm not going to copy you, I've been thinking about this for AWHILE"

And my spouse and I look at each other and they text me, "yeah, she was trying to copy SIL's bff tattoo with bff last year, even wanted the same artist and design and placement"

I told my spouse the second we got tattoos and both of her precious children had one (my spouse previously had no interest in tattoos) and especially her golden child, she'd get one within a year.

Honestly, I want to take her phone and block my artist on Instagram bc she only books via DM. I don't feel like I know the artist well enough to ask her not to take my JMNIL as a client.

I've now also found out she's been sending the shitty photos she took around to everyone. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh

u/rebelraf thank you for the Pride Month postcard! I'm so glad you're able to be a bright little spot of queerness in a Red County. The type of work you do is so important! Especially for our community.

u/um_marie_me thank you for the absolutely adorable Mothman card!! I think your sticker is going on my kindle

u/ungodlysockmonster I think our cats are long lost cousins, because Bean is often "wtf Bean" which sounds a lot like "kitty noo!" most recently for waking me up at 3 AM by chewing through a treat bag that was on a second shelf in a closed cupboard

u/PinkPengin thank you for the vacation postcard! 18 days!! you really do need to spend a significant amount of time there to make the flights/jet lag worth it. I hope you had a wonderful time! it's always been a dream of mine to visit that region of the world.

u/classic-power-383 thank you for the NYC Pride postcard! I still have yet to actually go inside Stonewall Inn. I was there last year for the first time at NYC Pride - we did Tour de Pride last June, a different Pride in a different state every weekend. CT (Middletown, the largest), Boston (YAAS Queens, No Kings), Providence RI, and then NYC? I miss New England's easy access to things.

Hello! I'm going to be on a plane with no wifi tomorrow. This offer is for the US folks!

To claim, please be flaired and be US ONLY!

Comment with a few things you're interested in and a writing prompt and confirm that you are in the US. I'll pick 4 people.

I will reach out for addresses :) Thanks!

Hello! I'm going to be on a plane with no wifi tomorrow. I ALSO just got another book of 8 International post crossing stamps!

To claim, please be flaired and outside of the US ONLY. This one is for the worldwide friends!

Comment with a few things you're interested in and a writing prompt and confirm that you are outside of the US. I'll pick 8 people.

I will reach out for addresses :) Thanks!

u/kequani thank you for the cool postcard from your study abroad! I've always wanted to visit, it sounds beautiful!

u/ReginaBeatle thank you for the Pride postcard! I love the DIY flag and the cat stamps

u/ChristineGlobal thank you for the Pride postcard! I really wish that I'd had Heated Rivalry and shows like it when I was growing up too. My spouse and I binged the whole series in two days!

u/on10man1ac Thank you for the cat lobster card!! I'm obsessed with cats AND lobsters so it's perfect. You also have gorgeous handwriting! the kindness of strangers to fix your glasses was so wonderful. I lost my glasses on my honeymoon and just couldn't see anything.

u/Eastern-Witch829 thank you for the cat tarot card! it was a lil spooky how spot on your pull was. It reminds me of how my spouse had never had a tarot reading or believed in them and he got a tarot themed drink at his PhD graduation celebration that came with a one card reading and it was spot on!

Does anyone ever feel guilty for saying no to someone who requests a card outside of the set requirements or who just fills out your form?

I struggled with this on my last offer post and ended up sending additional cards outside of what I specifically had purchased for the offer. Most of them were international, too, so more expensive.

I specifically really get annoyed when someone comments something along the lines of "I don't like the thing you're specifically sending to fans of the thing but I guess TikTok says this" to try and meet the requirement of "tell me what you like about [thing]" or "what's your favorite [thing] or memory about [thing]" and it kinda sours my desire to send out cards.

This offer post I posted my offer for 2 less than the number of cards I have, didn't have a form, and am reaching out directly to people for addresses if I don't already have them. But I still got a comment saying I don't like this thing but I like the themes other people talk about with this thing. I kindly said that the offer was for people who love this thing and they're welcome to claim a more general offer from me in the future. But I'm feeling guilty like I'm not spreading happy mail joy or the spirit of the sub.

With the cost of everything these days I feel like it's reasonable to set general guidelines for claiming an offer and expect them to be followed.

How do you approach this?

Hello!

I have 10 Lilo and Stitch postcards (really just Stitch) that I would like to send for 626 Day coming up. This is open to US and WW (yay large pre-order of Postcrossing stamps).

To claim, please be flaired and share a favorite Lilo and Stitch memory or your favorite scene. I will message if I don't already have your address. This is specifically for Lilo and Stitch fans.

'Ohana means Family and this community definitely knows the meaning of 'ohana. Nobody gets forgotten or left behind.

u/towalktheline thank you for the hilariously large ghastly sticker-ed postcard for Pokemon Day!

u/TyeDyeAmish your message made me actually laugh out loud

u/DenaliBound I haven't seen her TEDTalk! I'll have to check it out. I hope your next trip here is lovely!

u/naokokoro Thank you for the really cool Zodiac signs card! I agree, it's sad opening the mailbox every day to emptiness, so thank you for filling it with some cheer!

u/rare_cranberry_7861 I hope that you're not still experiencing the same migraine! The envelope was beautiful and much appreciated. Chronic pain can be isolating, I'm always open to exchange.

ETA: If you've sent me something and I have not posted a thank you, I have not received it yet. Since moving to this particular city, I've noticed very long and weird delays in receiving mail and my outgoing mail. Example: I sent 3 people at the same domestic address a card on the same day and dropped them in the same box at the same time and one took 12 days, one took 20 days, and the third still has not arrived almost a month later. I'm so so sorry if I haven't received something yet, or you have not received something from me yet.

u/BubblySunflowers thank you for the lovely coffee exchange! I hope your husband gets to try the Cafe du Monde frozen cafe au lait some day, it's sooooo good. We usually get a hot to dip beignets in and a frozen to share. The LouPaper coffee card is so cute!

u/andyismean (I hope I have the right username) Thank you for the Valentine's exchange! I love the vintage cupids. Don't worry about being late, we all have things that get in the way in life sometimes :)

u/Mental-Muscle2533 thank you for sharing Charles with me. I hope that the act of sharing him with your mail community is healing for your grief. Soul cats never leave our hearts, especially the ones who help us grow through the hard stages in life.

u/DisasterAdult thank you for the gorgeous card!! I hope things are doing better for you. French Quarter Festival was SO much good food, followed by Jazz Fest, so my little foodie heart (and stomach) is very happy

u/TyeDyeAmish it continues to amaze me what a wide berth of postcards you have. I always get excited to see you in my Informed Delivery and see what postcard is next. No waterfalls here anymore, but I used to hide in the woods by one during undergrad because it was right by campus in a large city and it felt like a little piece of home

u/TyeDyeAmish I love the cat postcard! I had a poster with the Soft Kitty song on it in my freshman dorm. (that was also back in peak Big Bang Theory years)

u/CrystalMoth thank you for the vintage Minnesota postcard. I miss home a lot! I used to live pretty close to the North Shore and grew up going to Superior/Duluth almost every weekend (even during the Winter)

u/SignalWriting8859 Thank you for the Kokopelli postcard! I loved hearing about your experience with Creeping Death! it's awesome to be able to connect with our favorite musicians.

u/Guava_dog omg, this literally brought me to tears. I'm so glad that you were touched by the card that I sent. I hope life treats you well. I just bought more Andrea Gibson chapbooks and although they are gone from the world, I believe that they continue to give us hope and love.