Well, my first postcard is away.

[thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden]

Well, my first postcard is away. They like elephants, and I happened to get an elephant pic in my random mixed bag of cheap cards, so that worked out well.

They also requested a lot of writing on the card, and me being naturally wordy that's fine, but me being naturally anxious I also had to copy the dimensions onto tracing paper first and practise fitting everything in!

I checked the code and address about six times but am still worried I somehow did it wrong. So now we wait 🙊

#Postcrossing

[sinituulia@eldritch.cafe]

@thegiddystitcher I used to enjoy postcrossing, but then Finnish Post started asking for 2.75€ to 3.05€ per postcard... Sadly I am not made of money, so I couldn't really justify the expense any more!

[thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden]

@sinituulia Yeah it's super expensive here too so I won't be sending a lot, but did just get a load of discount stamps that will make it sting less (assuming I can bear to post them and don't accidentally collect them instead).

[sinituulia@eldritch.cafe]

@thegiddystitcher It can be really wonderful!

I sent quite a few during a period of a couple of years, and this was around the time Russia attacked Ukraine. I got a nice postcard from a Russian teacher who'd picked out a card with a rainbow of colour pencils with the word love in all caps on it... And he talked about how horrifying it was and that he hoped his neighbour (we share a border) would remember that not everyone approved, and that peace would come. I still have all of the postcards I received, but that one in particular I remember. It's different holding something handwritten from a person!
I hope he's okay.

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@sinituulia @thegiddystitcher aaawwwww

when¹ I get Russian addresses I always try to be careful not to say anything that may cause them problems if a nosy neighbor reads the card, but I often wonder, and hope that being somewhat connected to the rest of the world helps

¹ and it's often, since there are a lot of Russian postcrossers, and a number of countries that no longer send mail to Russia