A bit all over the world, postcrossers like to get together to share their experiences and meet others from the same area. And, of course, to write and exchange some postcards!
San Francisco had its first meetup last Dec. 30th, and Kyo Suayan made a really nice little video about it you can see on Facebook.
Never participated in a Postcrossing meetup? Thinking about organizing one in your area? Then check this forum section with the upcoming events!
While lost on the streets of Singapore a few months ago, we stumbled upon the Singapore Philatelic Museum. Naturally curious of all postal things, we decided to visit!
A tour of the museum provides a fresh insight of the culture and history of Singapore, not only through stamps and correspondence, but also using really interesting interactive displays. There were several exhibitions on display and one about the year of the rat in the Chinese zodiac attracted our attention.
Titled “A Rat’s tale”, it promised “insights into the lives of these commonly misunderstood creatures and discover how rats have made their way into history, literature, and even pop culture”.
We made our way through the games, and then in the middle of the room, we checked out some rat/mouse themed postcards. And as we started to read the postcards, something sounded funny… Most of them mentioned a swap, and some even had familiar names on them like Mount_rushmore, Swan, fragility, aina77 and orange_juice_drinker… Wait, these were sent by postcrossers!!
And then Paulo hit his head and said “But of course! The mouse exhibition!”
You see, about this time last year we were contacted by Mishelle at the Philatelic Museum asking help about setting up this exhibition. We had already forgotten all about it when we entered the museum, and had quite a surprise! And a lot of you participated, as the number of postcards showed:
Thank you everybody, thank you Mishelle for being so nice and setting up this exhibition!
Now, the “Year of the Ox” is approaching in the chinese calendar so… who wants to take part in the next exhibition?
Update: This exhibition is opening soon, so this activity is now closed. Thank you to everybody who sent postcards to the Singapore Philatelic Museum, pictures are coming soon :)
PS – If you celebrate Christmas, we would like to wish you a Merry Christmas!
We have been quite busy lately with tweaks and improvements to Postcrossing! Here are some of the things we are excited about:
If you are anything like us, you probably enjoy writing your postcards while sipping on a cappuccino or a cup of tea in your favourite neighbourhood coffee shop. And now, that’s easier with our new printing feature! Now you can print on paper the details you need to send the postcards. This way you can also take the information with you next time you go out to buy postcards.
Oh, and by the way, we made it so that you can also cut the address and glue it on a postcard – that should make it easier to deal with those hard to write addresses, avoiding any mistakes.
Of course, you are free to continue copying the addresses directly from the site – we know we still do it most of the time. For the ones who have a use for this feature, we would like to know what you think.
PS: Oh! And please do not forget to reuse and recycle all the paper that you use.
icon on top of the postcard (on that postcards page, for instance, /postcards/PT-1).
