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Last November, a group of Indian postcrossers got together in Mumbai, on 11/11/11. The goal? To bring postcrossers closer together, and create a Postcrossing family in India!

Mumbai Postcrossing meetup

In attendance were exactly 11 postcrossers (what a neat coincidence!): indianfriendszone, seetas, Yuktie, Kanthi, anushankarn, kevindesai777, NishaJ, manojkamat_2005, kaushal, aditicm and Manasi.

Together they wrote and sent postcards with India’s Post special cancelation mark of the day, showed each other their collections, and shared tips on to store and preserve postcards.

Here are a few photos from the event:

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Amit S, organizer of the meeting told us that “With all the excitement members didn’t realise how time flew by, some had to rush back home and the others decided to move on to a nearby restaurant for some coffee and snacks and more discussions!”

Time does fly when you’re having fun! :)

PS – Never been to a Postcrossing meetup before? Look up the upcoming meetings on the forum, or set up your own!

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51 comments so far

jarezien, France
Congratulations for this meeting in India ! Wonderful ! So nice to read such articles from a far country. I always enjoy receiving cards from India... can't wait for receiving more soon ! Love to each of you there, from France.
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carmen1405, Netherlands
Haven't receive any cards from India yet. Hope I'll receive some soon!
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mundoo, Australia
What a great idea to produce 11 11 11 postcards. Great meeting
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aleoliva86, Brazil
i have never sent or received anything from there... :(
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Vagabond_Trader, United States of America
I did a direct swap with indianfriendzone before and he is vey nice! I love Indian cards so much! My goal is now to get cards from Pakistan, Nepal, an Bangladesh!
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FemkeDorien, Netherlands
I hope that it was a nice meeting
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Laurentina, Portugal
Olá, everybody,
I received a card from Juni and I loved it. Congratulations for your meeting!
Baraivel
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phuleshouse, Canada
Congratulations for your meeting..it is nice to share a hobby with others
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Blogger, United States of America
I got one of their cards! woot woot! Meet-up cards are wonderful :D
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zywwyq, China
wow!
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manojkamat1857, India
It is my pleasure to be a member of this group .. delighting moment
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anushankarn, India
It was great re-living the meet up through this post!! Hope there are many more such meet ups in the years to come!
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rkneo11, India
I was unable to attend as my exams were going on :(... But i am happy that the meetups have kickstarted in India... We'll definitely have more...
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YITICH, Taiwan
So nice~
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Shaneez, South Africa
congratulations (once again) to Amit and Sita for hosting such a successful meeting , and I loved the meet up cards that I received too.
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leleka, Russia
Congratulations! and thanks again for the great card!
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manu_hsp, India
It's truly wonderful..i wish i could have attended. I'm glad to receive the meet up postcard with special cancellation from postcrossing friends who attended this meet up:) Looking forward to next meet up in 2012:)
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hmassese, Australia
I was lucky enough to receive one of these cards! Thank you Sita for organising it and for everyone for signing it! P.S. Sita, love your outfit!
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tiggerhans, Netherlands
Great to read and see this, and just this week I received such a great card from seetas through the postcrossing forum: absolutely LOVED the card. By the way, hope to visit India this year!!
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JackFate, Czech Republic
I got a card from this meeting, thanks to Kanthi! It is really cool now to read about it and see the pictures.
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GabijaGeru, Lithuania
surprisingly i got wonderful postcard with that special date stamp (from organizer of meetup) BIG THANK YOU AMIT :)

https://picasaweb.google.com/104457714981454933479/MyPostcards#5679244008120953250
https://picasaweb.google.com/104457714981454933479/MyPostcards#5679239033323108274
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walle, Croatia
It will be great to receive one of the postcards from that meeting because it was on my birthday! :)
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Gerrit, Netherlands
It's so nice to see you all on these pictures, I got the beautiful 11-11-11 via Yuktie! Many thanks to everybody who signed the card too. Very special. Groetjes Gery
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nisha, Poland
Awwww, I would love to receive a postcard from India! :)
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Lord5005, United States of America
Thanks AMIT for the 11-11-11 postcards!
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isagv, Germany
I love meetups! :)
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schwan272, United States of America
How wonderful! Thanks for sharing!
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ipuenktchen, Iran
congrats for starting meetings in india!!!! I took part untill now in several meetings in DE, AT, FI, CZ and of course in IR, and it's really huge fun and bring us more familar to other postcrossers - all the best for you in your future!!! I'm always thankful for the great postcrossing idea!!! (although pls don't wait anymore for cards from IR as we had an awfull new postage fee, which is 20 times higher than before and nobody is active anymore... :-((((((((((((((( but I'll never leave the postcrossing family!!!!)
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indianfriendszone, India
@carmen1405 , aleoliva86 , nisha : if you wish we can swap postcards…

@rkneo11 and manu_hsp : I wish you can attend the next meetup..

@ Duplevista : Next meetup? Whenever members are willing too… Hoping we can have a meet in HAMPI (UNESCO place)

@ 9teen87 and GabijaGiriwala : Thanks for uploading Meetup Postcard and Special Cancellation :)

@ walle and nisha : If you wish to have the meetup postcard then you can try requesting NishaJ on India Forum
(link : http://forum.postcrossing.com/viewthread.php?tid=58780&page=2 )

@ ipuenktchen : Its really a sad news… Not just Postcrosser , infact others mite also be affect which the revised postage. I wish the Postal Department can change it again, if many people write to them.

Thanks to everyone for your wishes and I hope we can see more members attending in future meetups in INDIA, and even International Members.

And thanks to all the 11 members who made this successful meetup :)
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ipuenktchen, Iran
dear indianfriendszone, thx for your reply (and I think you also visited recently my blog, as I saw your country flag ;-) ) - we cannot be hopefull as this depends to the world postal organization and our currency.. it's less than one euro.......... no chance............... - take care, ipue..
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violeta13, Romania
I received a great card from this meeting, thanks to seetas and all the wonderful people there. Thank you! I'm sure it was a great meeting :)
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hlkcarry, China
I really wanna get the pc from India.happy postcrossing~
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VincentJJ, Netherlands
NEXT MEETING 12-12-12 ???? Greetings from a Dutch guy now living in France /VincentJJ
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monsoon, China
Amits! Thank you! I also am lucky to participate in to this project. I received a pretty postcard with Cancellation dated 11/11/11 form this meeting.
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paulo, Portugal
@ipuenktchen: Sorry to hear about those postage taxes increase - that is not good news at all :(. Can you share with us how much is now the postage from Iran to foreign countries?
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Jane, Russia
It's wonderful! The cards and stamps with special stempel are great! Thank you for sharing with us. I wish you many more meet ups and hope to get a card from one of your next meetings;-)
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Ssabalongo, Uganda
Jai Ho !!! Three Cheers for All the Indian Postcrossing Members !!! I missed this amazing Meetup but lucky enough to get the card signed by all the members!!! Thanx All !!! Looking forward for the next meetup !!!
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dulcey, United States of America
looks like a wonderful postcrossing meetup!!!
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ven-a, Poland
Fantastic!
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jordi07, Spain
Congratulations for the great meeting! and thanks again for the great card!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2685380367729&set=a.1562717141850.2081581.1052990554&type=3&theater
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kazinhabueno, Brazil
amazing! postcrossing meetups are really very fun :D
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Vladisa, Russia
Great meeting! dear indian postcrossers! Welcome to Tomsk, Siberia! There are so much postcrossers!))
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moonlessnite, Canada
What a signifciant and lucky number you chose for your meet up date! Such serenidipity that 11 people turned up...what a happy group. Best wishes for more ahppy meetups. thank you for sharing.
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Hotaru, Norway
I'm also one of the lucky people who got one of your cards, guys!!! Thank you thank you so much!!!
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Hotaru, Norway
I absolutely loved it!! Not only because of the unique date, but especially because postcards from meet-up are just great!!! Postcrossers united! :D :D
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jaiirawr, Canada
That was really amazing that you guys got a meeting going on there! Also, very good to hear that everyone enjoyed it! Hopefully that could happen in Canada too and that I will receive and send many to India soon =)
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Banditka, Russia
Cool! I wish I have such card :)
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dhlondo, India
Any tips I can get from fellow postcrossers in India? I have joined 5 months back, I am from Bangalore.
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marica_t, United States of America
What a lovely meetup!

I hope to attend a Postcrossing meetup someday! :)
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