micklpickl
(or Mickey) is a member from United States of America
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He has been a member for over 3 years (1438 days).
Send micklpickl a message!About Mickey...
If you're reading this, chances are good that you're going to mail me a postcard. Thank you in advance, and thanks for reading this!
Please write the address exactly as I have, and be sure to leave space for the U.S. Postal Service below the address and along the entire bottom margin of the card; this speeds up the delivery of postcards to the USA.
Truly, I will enjoy receiving any kind of postcard, and I also look forward to cool stamps! Here are some of my little collections:
1) multiview postcards with the placename on the front. I have such a nice, growing collection of these, and I treasure them all, but especially German and Czech ones from the little towns and smaller cities.
2) Those odd, even weird, postcards that you might have hanging around, thinking you could never send them to anyone. I will love them!
3) I also love ad cards and commercial postcards
4) mid-20th century postcards showing off-the-wall hotels, etc.
5) Bears, and other large mammals
6) Pickles!
* PLEASE DO NOT SEND those sexist tourist joke cards, usually from beaches, showing bikini-clad women who could be from anywhere.
One of my lifelong hobbies is language. So if you can't think of things to write, please give me a phrase or two in your native language, and script!
And now, a bit of my own history: I have been to Spain in 1986, England & Scotland in 1989. In the early 1990s, I travelled completely around the United States and Canada, every state except North Dakota, Michigan, Indiana, and Alaska, picking up postcards along the way. Since joining Postcrossing, I have received several spectacular cards, really unique exchanges. As ever, I enjoy the exchanges with Finns; Finnish folk music is one of my favourite obsessions. My favourite Värttinä song is "Kylä vuotti uutta kuuta." Finally I have received a postcard of the Kaustinen music festival, certainly music recommendations are always welcome!
Stats: At the end of July 2011, I had sent postcards to 65 different countries (+3, adding Moldova, Peru, & Iran), and received postcards from 63 different ones (adding 1 from Malta). I am ranked 73rd in the USA by sent cards (dropping 2 places) and 49th by distance (-1 this month)!
The website link is a Geotagged online Picasa of most of my received postcards --- have a look!
I have a few expired cards. Sometimes I send another card, if I see that the user is active again. I have had people find their names here, so I currently have these cards expired:
US-716194 - Penglu - China
US-836844 - farewellarms - China
US-879695 - Kris09 - Singapore
US-891694 - yatlokfatt - Malaysia
US-894372 - Preslava - Belarus
US-946398 - essc1212 - Taiwan
US-948019 - melan100 - Australia
US-969089 - meiteoh - Singapore
US-980161 - mild_mitten - Russia
US-990285 - lady_ruru - U.A.E.
US-1026064 - lucymonty - U.K.
US-1033327 - kacka1 - Czech Rep.
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