Incoming

The combination of not posting anything while the planes weren't running and being away from home last weekend has really thrown me out of synch. I haven't posted about any incoming mail for a while and I'm totally behind with letter writing. First things first... incoming :)

Friday's Post - I was lucky enough to get two letters in one day! :D

A lovely letter fron Ashley in Maine, I love the little flowers she stuck on the envie :)


A letter from Sam for an intro letter swap, the stamps are really pretty.

Saturday's Post (I had loads of it!)

A really fun Postcrossing card from the States


A beautiful and informative Postcrossing card from Poland


A Quartered postie for a swap (I got this one because of the reptile/dragon - YAY!)


Swapbot name Postie


10 things to be happy about swap with a really cool envie and writing


A really cool postie for the Nude postie swap

Tuesday's Post (FIVE postcards :D )

A postcrossing card from China with awesome stamp usage... see below too




A non-touristy postie for a swap. This character kinda creeps me out... but I like that weird factor :)


A Quartered postcard for a swap


Another quartered postie


And the only quartered postie that didn't make it here complete. The other 3 recipients got theirs ok and I'm really sad because she cut the cards diagonally which would have been really cool. The base postie is pretty strange and interesting though. It's such a shame it didn't reach me here in one piece... I think the royal mail employees picked it to pieces :''(

Today's Post

An awesome postie from Taiwan (Private Swap)


Complete with really cool stamp :D


A Random Envie for a swap complete with several 1p stamps, heh


The stationery inside the envie


Part 2 of stationery inside random envie

And that is the huge amount of incoming I received in the past week!! To be honest, I think I've missed some... I'll have to double check. I need to come up with a filing system for incoming post. I may just have to buy some more storage boxes, heheh

Distance record.

I hunted down (well, googled it) a distance calculator and decided to work out the km of other received mail. With penpals, I don't know that my mail has arrived until I receive a reply, but I know which items have been received on swap bot so I'm going to do some adding :)

Letter to Muriah in Markham - 5687 km
Swap Bot postie to Alabama - 6867 km
Swap Bot postie to Pennsylvania - 5688 km
Swap Bot ransom note to Utah - 7849 km
Swap Bot card to South Carolina - 6512 km
Swap Bot postie to Australia - 16896 km
Post crossing postcard to The Netherlands - 474 km
Post crossing postcard to Germany - 818 km
Post crossing postcard to Michigan - 6016 km

Along with the other two already documented that means my post has travelled a total of 67,149 km :)

Arrived!

My DIY Taro Gomi postcrossing card arrived in the USA sometime between yesterday and today, which means my km count is slowly but surely going up.

My question is, how will I track the personal post, or swap bot posts?? Does anyone know of a program online or website or something on google earth I can use to track the distance of my personal mail?

Anyhoo, the little one travelled 7,926km to it's destination on the west coast. Bless :)

EDIT: My card to the Netherlands arrived today :D so I'm adding some more km's to my total :D

This one travelled 474 to get to it's destination.

That's a total of 10,342km so far. YAY!

Another first!

I just got an email to say that my postcrossing postcard to Finland has arrived safely!! YAY!

You see, this is all new to me, so I'm super excited that it got there ok and I'm hoping that my other postcards will start arriving soon... I worry about the little blighters getting lost :(

But yay for orange postie with pink flower. It's travelled 1,942 km.