National Postcard Week 2013

The first full week in May is National Postcard Week [NPCW] in the USA.  2013 is the 30th year and is the week of May 5-11.  This is the first year I have participated.  I used photos that I took to make my own postcards.  I created 2 designs and made 100 of each.  My goal was to send 200 postcards.  So far I have sent 208 - obviously 8 not of my design (store bought for specific swaps I joined).  I learned a lot about making postcards.  Mine look pretty amateurish and are a bit thinner than typical postcards - but still meet the postal regulations.  Below are the postcards I made for NPCW 2013.  I have received less than 70 postcards this week so far but I expect more will arrive over the weekend.  Plus I mailed many postcards to family and friends and do not expect a postcard in return.

These are my cats Grady and Zoey on their cat tree watching the mail truck make its rounds in the neighborhood.  Photo taken November 2012.

This is Hayden Falls which flows into the Scioto River in Columbus, Ohio.  Photo taken February 2013.

For more information on National Postcard Week, check out this website.  To see other postcards made and sent this week, click here [a page in the website link above].

National Postcard Week 2012

Today is the last day of National Postcard Week (NPCW) {May 6-12, 2012}.  I had considered making my own postcards to send out.  There is a group online that each member designs a postcard for this week (with the words National Postcard Week and the dates) and swaps with the other members.  Sounds cool to me.  But I didn't have enough time to design something and get a bunch printed / copied.  Maybe next year.  Instead I sent out store-bought postcards (various ones) to some family, for some swaps on swap-bot.com, and through PostCrossing.com.  I sent out 17 postcards to 12 different countries and 4 USA states.  Not bad for deciding to participate on Friday (and with the current postage rates)! 

Today is also the USPS Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger food drive.  So I have many postcards for the mail carrier to pick up along with a bag of non-perishable foods for the food pantry.  Our mail gets delivered quite late in the day (anywhere between 4:30pm and 6:00pm).  If he has lots of food donations, I expect him to be even later today.  It's tough to be an impatient person waiting for real mail when it really feels like SNAIL mail some days.  ;)