Comment by WaitWaitWha

Comment by WaitWaitWha 16 hours ago

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This was written in 2022. Do people still know how to postal-mail things? Asking as the acquisition of envelope, paper and stamps read like a new adventure for the author.

I make a practice of sending (picture) postcards to each of my descendants, when i arrive at a new place. It is a very rare occasion when I can find them, even rarer for the vendor to know what they are. Once the vendor was insisting that a flash card (smallish, lined cards for taking notes) was indeed a postcard. Sadly, I often have to buy them at the airport on arrival.

voidUpdate 15 hours ago

What places don't have postcards? Whenever I go to places in the UK, tourist tat shops will often have hundreds of them in every flavour of souvenir

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  • alberto-m 13 hours ago

    It seems to be a cultural thing. As an European I am used to find postcards in every town, but when I went to Singapore I had a hard time procuring them. None of the souvenir shops had them, and when I asked the employees they often looked at me as if I were some kind of strange animal. I finally found a small, dusty selection in the darkest corner of a huge department store.

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  • philipwhiuk 12 hours ago

    I always like to buy a postcard.

    Occasionally actually post them before I leave a place (ideally soon after I arrive).

    Generally they arrive substantially after I get back.

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    • WaitWaitWha 9 hours ago

      Yep, same path. Arrive, get cards ASAP, usually as I walk out of the airport, give it to the hotel concierge the next morning. They will often stamp and drop it in the mail for me.

      It is so much fun to watch my spawns showing me the cards they got with strange stamps and neat pictures of far away lands. I address them individually, so there are plenty to write, still fun.

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munchler 15 hours ago

> flash card (smallish, lined cards for taking notes)

These are called “index cards” in the US, although you can certainly use them to make flash cards if you want. Source: Am old enough to have used index cards unironically.

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  • NelsonMinar 11 hours ago

    my flash cards all store at least 32 GB of data but are so tiny I keep losing them.

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Suppafly 12 hours ago

>Asking as the acquisition of envelope, paper and stamps read like a new adventure for the author.

I can pretty much guarantee it'd be an adventure for my teen, nearly adult, children.

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01HNNWZ0MV43FF 15 hours ago

I know how to send mail but it's like doing taxes, I'm afraid I'll get something wrong and not find out until I'm in trouble for it

I'm probably younger than you by quite a bit.. no descendents, no time to travel, not allowed in many countries or US states anyway

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