Postcrossing and the joy of snail mails
Postcrossing and the joy of snail mails
17th of July 2019 marks 14th anniversary of Postcrossing. So, I thought it would be a good opportunity to explain this little hobby of mine which I gained last year.
Postcrossing started as an online project by Paulo Magalhães who just wanted to create a medium where some of his friends or friends of friends could send postcard to each other. And there it was, a site where people around the world visited to find a stranger they can send a postcard to.
It works in a very seamless way, as you register to the site with a brief introduction about you and with your address; you are eligible to send postcard to 5 members of Postcrossing. Your own country is excluded by default but you can include it if you want. So, every time
to click on send a post card and ask an address you are given a unique post card id. Indian postcrossers will have an ID starting from IN, Germans will have DE, Chinese would have CN denoting their country’s name which is followed by a numeric value. You should write this ID on your postcard for the receiver. Once the receiver gets your postcard, he/she is responsible to log into postcrossing site and update that they have received a postcard with the post card ID and it will automatically map to you. As soon as your postcard is registered, you or your address is now eligible to receive a postcard from some random user and that’s how the circle repeats. Postcrossing limits the number of postcard you can send at one time on the basis of your actual activity so that they can avoid spammers or weed out users who break any community rules via reports by users.
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By - Nitin Govindan 😃
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