Comments on: I’m not a postcrosser

By: phil bruno

phil bruno — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:33:20 +0000

keijo like you stated..postage is expensive..i feel no obligation to reply to an unsolicited card or letter..enjoy the freebies !!!! phil

By: Keijo

Keijo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:14:50 +0000

Hi Flor,

and thanks for the response. It was put nicely.

By: Flor

Flor — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:07:31 +0000

I am collector of postcards and stamps and love it. And most surprising is that some members of postcrossing send me philatelic items instead of postcards because of what I wrote in my profile. It depends on your preferences. If the person in charge of sending the postcard is aware, will surely get what you ask for!

As to be an expensive way of collecting stamps, I disagree.

Addictions like smoking are more expensive then this hobby. A pack of cigarettes costs about 5 euros. With five euros I can send 4 postcards=postcard+stamp(outside Europe 0,90 cent per stamp) or 5 postcards (within Europe 0,70 cent per stamp).

This increases the chances I get stamps, even if they arrive damaged, from around the world because in every post I get at least 2 or 3 stamps.

If the problem is to post your address on that site, then I must tell you that this is already a matter of trust and that your address is published somewhere and sold when you adhere to the club x or y, where does one’s fidelity card store x or y.

I trust people until proven otherwise, and through them every day know a little about the world without leaving home through my postcards and stamps that come to me every day to my mailbox!

By: Olga

Olga — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:40:41 +0000

Me I received today my first postcard from postcrossing… and since in my profile I stated that I collect stamps (and even I made a petition for Simpsons stamps if the card was sent from the USA)… I was lucky and the girl put me the stamps I wanted…

But is true that is not the same way to see the things for a person who collect stamps and for a person who collects postcards… (as for example now I have friends that know that I collect stamps and they borrow me their postcards cause they dont care if I take the stamp cause they only want the postcard)… very convenient to me ^_^

By: T-M

T-M — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:39:16 +0000

I do postcrossing, and for me it’s quite interesting to recieve postcards from everywhere in the world. Because of Morgenpost I only pay 44 ct. postage per card, not up to 1 €, as Deutsche Post wants me to pay.

But I wouldn’t say that it’s a good way to get stamps for your collection. Most stamps are damaged. THis often happens when the cards run through the sorting machine at the post office (which isn’t the senders fauld, of cause), but also becaue most postcrossing members don’t collect stamps (but only postcards) and don’t bother to use damaged stamps (or sometimes even no stamps at all). Some even don’t care to put enough postage on the card (also a way to save money, but a way I don’t like).

Of cause there are also cards with interesting stamps, for example from Finland. (But many postcrossers don’t like cards from Finland, because there are so many postcrossers in Finland and I heard that some throw them away without registering them. But I think these are only few.)

On some cards there is really only written “Happy Postcrossing”, but usually people write more, and most people also expect the sender to write someting (about the card, the stamps he used or about himself).

For me it’s an interesting hobby, but no really good way to collect stamps.