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DO NOT PUT ANY GLITTER, CONFETTI, OR SIMILAR THINGS IN AN ENVELOPE.

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I register every postcard I receive on the day I receive it. If the postcard you sent isn't registered, it's because I haven't received it yet. Also, I will NOT register a postcard I haven't received.

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Hello, my name is Kenton. Call me Kent!

I was born in 1973, and I live near Hannibal, Missouri, the hometown of Mark Twain. I collect playing cards, fountain pens, stamps, beer coasters, and postcards from around the world, and I enjoy watching animated cartoons (especially Japanese anime), and playing online gacha games. I also collect and design pinback buttons. My favorite card games are 10-point pitch, canasta, pinochle, and tens solitaire. I work from home.

I am an amateur photographer, so you might get a postcard featuring my photography, if I don't have anything that fits what you like in your profile.

PLEASE USE REAL STAMPS! It's sad to get a postcard from a country that makes beautiful stamps, only for the postage to be metered. :(

Any kind of postcard is great, but here are some of my favorites:
Playing card motifs
Mahjong (Chinese or Japanese. I'm not interested in American "Mah-jongg")
Famous buildings and statues (especially if they are in the city where you live)
SHARKS!, octopi, or squid
Airplanes, Automobiles, Trains
Space and space exploration
Japanese anime/manga (favorites are Konosuba, Serial Experiments Lain; anything in the comedy or hard sci-fi genres are great)
Swords and sorcery (Think D&D or Lord of the Rings)
Alphonse Mucha (or any art nouveau)
Dada & surrealism
Gotochi
Your artwork/photography
Kitsch/tacky/so-bad-it's-good/"why is this on a postcard?" (see "Bad Postcards" on tumblr for examples)
Weird advertising postcards (for items most average people wouldn't buy, such as industrial machinery)
Motels of the 1930s-60s (which can qualify as kitsch)
Vintage postcards
Humorous

If you send a humorous postcard in your own language, please translate it to English. Google Translate doesn't always get the joke across.

ROMANIAN POSTCROSSERS: My grandfather was born in Avrig, near Sibiu. If you have any postcards of Avrig (the Brukenthal Summer Palace especially), I would love to have them.

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PS To U.S. Postcrossers - Please join the campaign to request the U.S. Postal Service to issue a Postcrossing stamp! Spread the word by adding this info to your profile and by sending a postcard (or write a letter) to:

Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee
475 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Room 3300
Washington, DC 20260-3501

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