Postcrossing around the Globe

Today is Bank Holiday Monday or Easter Monday and sadly I am working this afternoon. However, this morning I thought that I would write some postcards and pop then in the post on my way to work. Ten Postcrossing postcards making their way to a new home!

The holiday season seems to have flown past and I have been unable to blog anything here on my Postcrossing blog; which is a shame really... So, here what has happened with my cards I have sent to their new homes: 1 December 2013   My postcard GB-485070 to Liesjen in Netherlands has arrived! It reached its destination in 19 days after traveling 512 km !   My postcard  GB-485082 to Bakoru in France has arrived! It reached its destination in 19 days after traveling 328 km !   2 December 2013   My postcard  GB-485079 to strawberry1 in Czech Republic has arrived! It reached its destination in 20 days after traveling 1,046 km !   3 December 2013   My postcard  GB-485074 to Alexeeva21 in Ukraine has arrived! It reached its destination in 21 days after traveling 2,425 km !   4 December 2013   My postcard  GB-485064 to stephypants in United States of America has arrived! It reach...

Postcard ID From member From country Received Distance Traveled IT-251278 Neelixa   Italy 11/Dec/2013 1,555 km 8 days NL-2220103 HvB   Netherlands 10/Dec/2013 460 km 7 days DE-2702683 rustinchen   Germany 7/Dec/2013 557 km 4 days DE-2702680 reni27     Germany 6/Dec/2013 568 km 3 days NL-2220107 disje     Netherlands 5/Dec/2013 451 km 2 days RU-2118556 Tapochegg   Russia 4/Dec/2013 2,724 km 40 days DE-2630868 SuperChen   Germany 18/Nov/2013 969 km 10 days   RU-2118543 Helen1983   Russia 16/Nov/2013 5,360 km 22 days   NL-2170223 nikra   Netherlands 12/Nov/2013 370 km 6 days   TR-157970 pin2   Turkey 12/Nov/2013 2,578 km 14 days   DE-2615480 Linda-neuenkamp   Germany 9/Nov/2013 534 km 6 days   IT-246183 lapepepa   Italy 8/Nov/2013 1,241 km 14 days  ...

Hurray!  GB-475378   was received! The  postcard GB-475378  to  redbean80100  in  Taiwan  has arrived! It reached its destination in  26 days  after traveling  9,826 km ! redbean80100 wrote you a message: "Thanks for the card! I can get the meaning immediately, haha! 所以其實你會中文？還是閩南語？" Hurray!  GB-480226  was received! The  postcard GB-480226  to  Wurup4ik  in  Russia  has arrived! It reached its destination in  10 days  after traveling  1,441 km ! Wurup4ik wrote you a message: "Greetings from Kaliningrad, Russia!! Thanks for the card!" Hurray!  GB-475379  was received! The  postcard GB-475379  to  olento  in  Finland  has arrived! It reached its destination in  24 days after traveling  2,063 km ! olento wrote you a message: "Hi,  and greetings from rainy autumn Oulu, Finland! Thanks for your great postcard! You were absolutel...

These cards arrived with their new owners... Hurray! GB-467997 was received! The postcard GB-467997 to Tanya346 in Russia has arrived! It reached its destination in 34 days after traveling 3,990 km ! Tanya346 wrote you a message: "Hello! Thanks a lot for your great postcard with photo of London. I really like it. Best wishes! Tanya" Hurray! GB-468007 was received! The postcard GB-468007 to maroussia in China has arrived! It reached its destination in 34 days after traveling 8,139 km ! maroussia wrote you a message: "Hello Jemma, Thanks a lot for the card! Françoise"

These are my current outgoing cards: GB-48001 to The Netherlands GB-467997 to Russia GB-468004 to Ukraine GB-468009 to Finland GB-468006 to Latvia GB-467999 to Belarus GB-468005 to Poland GB-468002 to Malaysia GB-468003 to USA GB-468007 to China The three "Towcester Tea Room" cards (at the bottom of the image) are expired cards that I am re-sending: GB-457054 to Turkey GB-457048 to Germany GB-417120 to USA I don't like it when cards don't arrive at their new homes!!  The three "Towcester Tea Room" cards are cards that I have had made especially for Postcrossing Should I do Direct Swaps again?! Answers on a postcard...

Here is part two of august: Hurray!  GB-453081  was received! The postcard GB-453081 to  Maria_Tukai  in Belarus  has arrived! It reached its destination in  21 days  after traveling  1,812 km ! Maria_Tukai wrote you a message: "Thank you for such an unusual postcard-abstraction) Have a nice day)" Hurray!  GB-453082  was received! The postcard GB-453082 to  emillyfeng  in Taiwan  has arrived! It reached its destination in  16 days  after traveling  9,790 km ! emillyfeng wrote you a message: "Hello Jemmay Thank you for the art card. best wishes emilly" Hurray!  GB-453074  was received! The postcard GB-453074 to  Krasnadevka  in Russia  has arrived! It reached its destination in  13 days  after traveling  4,144 km ! Krasnadevka wrote you a message: "Hello Jemma! Thank you for interesting card!" Hurray!  GB-453077  was received! The postcard GB-453077  to j...

I really hate not having full access to the internet; I can never do what I want to do... Here are the cards I have sent that have arrived at their new homes: **no picture** The postcard GB-417124 to Rosy03 in Taiwan has arrived! It reached its destination in 23 days after traveling 9,948 km ! Rosy03 wrote you a message: "Hello! Thank you very much for the beautiful postcard. I really like it :) Cheers, Rosy" The postcard GB-408738 to rejuvenate in China has arrived! It reached its destination in 50 days after traveling 9,149 km ! rejuvenate wrote you a message: "Thank you for your card, it's really lovely. I love the stamp very much. You asked in the letter what's the most interesting thing I've found. Er...I guess everybody loves me because i'm too good-looking, how frustratingXD Have an excellent day." **no picture** The postcard GB-421113 to leyla in Finland has arrived! It reached its destination in 7 days ...

Here are some cards that have made their way to their new homes: On Friday 28th December; the card GB-384223 to x_TsukiYo_x in Belarus has arrived! It reached its destination in 18 days after traveling 1,902 km ! x_TsukiYo_x wrote: "Hello, Jemma! Thank you for this nice postcard! I like it :) I hope that the New Year brings joy and happiness in your life! Happy New Year!" On Tuesday 25th December; the card GB-379960 to Modesti in Russia has arrived! It reached its destination in 32 days after traveling 2,938 km ! Modesti wrote you a message: "Thank you for the card! And Merry Christmas!" On Thursday 20th December; the card GB-385357 to Branwen74 in Netherlands has arrived! It reached its destination in 6 days after travelling 398 km!  Sadly I missed what she had sent me :(   There is no image for this card; I did not load it ont...

I received this card today: It is my "TV Dinner Lottery" winner's card! How cool does it look?! This card has made my top ten favourite cards!! I have updated my Flickr account with all the images of the cards that I have received recently! Go on have a look and see if you know any of the cards there?! Also sent out another two cards today: GB-387357 to Russia GB-387359 to Thailand

Since Friday 14th December the following has happened in my Postcrossing world... RECEIVED: JP-344491 This card came from hinako32  in Japan. The card travelled a distance of 9,412 km (5,848 miles) and it took a total of 10 days to arrive to me. I posted in the countdown - JAPAN Countdown to JP-300000; but it seems that they have already made it! I wonder what their next countdown will be?! NO-70447   This card came from Martin_Roe  in Norway. The card travelled the distance of 1,274 km (792 miles) and it too took 10 days to get me!   I also posted in the countdown - NORWAY Countdown to NO-77777 ; only 7,330 cards to go! I wonder when they will get to it?     RU-1391739         This pretty card came from Cappuccinator  in Russia; the card travelled 3,376 km (2,098 miles) and arrived after 13 days. 13 - 15 days is the average I have found for Russian cards to arrive to me.   ...

I received two cards yesterday: RU-1329427 from chernysheva in Russia. It travelled 2,724 km. NL-1550023 from margrietbrouwer in The Netherlands. It travelled 435 km. I have always loved receiving postcards - it is wonderful to hear from people around the world. Jemma