when was the last time you got a postcard?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

when was the last time you sent a postcard?

I have a collection of postcards stuck back somewhere.

[NYC_SKP]

1. I got one in the mail today but it was a commercial card.

H and R Block.

Sad!

Last one sent was probably from Mexico, years ago, a little resort town named Akumal.

Postcards are fun!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. yeah, business ones don't count. the personal ones were fun:

from Miami:

the weather is here.
wish you were beautiful.
Ha! Ha!
Already blistered down here and Paul got stung by jellyfish. Did you know that pee will cure it?
See you on Sunday.

that kind of stuff.

[CherokeeDem]

2. This past summer...

A friend of mine who lives in Paris was in her native Scotland for a family wedding...

Sent me a postcard of a very handsome man in a kilt!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. nice! did she write something good on the back?

[CherokeeDem]

6. Quite a bit....

It was a fairly large postcard...so she recapped the wedding and then made some comment about how she knew I would love the kilt.

I'm from the US but I am mostly of Scottish decent with Swedish, English, and Cherokee mixed in. However, I will freely admit I do have a thing for kilts.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. as do we all, honey - as do we all

[Paulie]

5. My mom like to take pictures then put a stamp on it and mail

Usually of squirrels romping in the snow but been a lean year for snow and picture postcards.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. cute! great idea. homemade postcards sent with love

[bigwillq]

7. This past summer

from a friend who went on vacation.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. vacation postcards are teh best!

exotic places and newsy, gossipy goodness on the back. win-win!

[rurallib]

11. sent a thousand out for my candidate last summer

Just receive one from a friend last week.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. awesome! glad to see people still send and receive them. I want one!

[rurallib]

13. the vet always sends one for the cats

they ignore it

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. of course they do! tis beneath them to do otherwise!

heaven forbid

[velvet]

15. Got one just last month

From a friend's daughter, thanking me for attending her wedding last winter. Homegrown but professional-looking postcard, 'cos she creative like that, the dear girl.

I can't remember when I last sent anyone a postcard.

[csziggy]

16. Not for a long time!

But I recently found two postcards from my great uncle Tommy to his brother. They had pictures of him playing college football in 1913. He was on the University of Michigan team and the game in both pictures was against Pennsylvania. Both cards had plays that were featured in a front page article about the game in the Ann Arbor newspaper and Uncle Tommy was instrumental in those plays. I also found the newspaper article with a full page of photos of the game!

Other old postcards my family have saved include an embroidered one that my grandfather sent from France in WWI, a card with his Army Corps of Engineers unit marching (not sure where, but it was down a city street), and one of him with his cousin when they first enlisted - they are soooooo young!

[In_The_Wind]

17. Last postcard I sent out was 2007.

[Arugula Latte]

18. I send several postcards a week to an elderly relative.

It's hard to talk to her on the phone and she loves getting mail.

[sinkingfeeling]

19. I always try to send myself a postcard when I'm in a different country.

[Brother Buzz]

20. Last card I recieved was from Cuba

My octogenarian mother travels a lot and always sends a postcard. Funny, she beat the Cuban postcard home by two weeks.