Postcrossing

[pne]

I found out about Postcrossing a while back from chasy. And it's fun!

The idea is that you register, then you send postcards to random people (each time you click on "Send a postcard", you get a random user picked for you and get their address displayed), and get postcards from other random people in return! And it's kind of addictive. Especially to see things from other countries.

So far, I've sent postcards to Finland, Spain, the US, Japan, and France, and there's one for China sitting on my desk waiting to be posted, and I got a postcard back from the Netherlands!

Fun stuff. Especially, for me, writing addresses in other alphabets "properly" :) The Chinese and Japanese people only inputted ASCII versions of their addresses, so that's what I was shown, but both responded to a private message asking how to write their name and address properly.

Comments

[chasy]

isn't it so FUN?? (i know, i know, that's essentially what you said. LOL)

[pne]

It is!

When I read that you had sent off five postcards at once, I thought, "I'm not going to do that. One or two for a start, maybe."

But when I actually got started, it was so fun that I did end up sending my first five pretty close to one another :)

Now I'm out of stamps... will have to get some more so I can have even more fun!

Thanks so much for pointing me to it!

[slowfox]

This looks kinda cool, actually - may well sign up :-)

[pne]

Do it! Do it!