Three very different cards coming to you from Taiwanese members of Postcrossing. They are all interesting in their way.
First up, a post card from Shien. Unfortunately, I discovered that he has sent this card to many people. I don't appreciate postcrossers who do that, since it obviously means they haven't bothered to look at my profile.
The message on the back was printed out on paper and stuck to the card, so I'll just skip over the personal information.
"Hi, I'm Shien. I live in Taiwan. I work in [redacted]. I love postcrossing. I have a son and a daughter. If you come to Taiwan, maybe you can contact me. [redacted]: you can add me and we can be good friends. Hope you have a happy 2014 year :)
There are a lot of good places to visit in Taiwan. Please take a trip to this postcard's back when you retired. It's my pleasure to be your tour guide. "
This bug stamp is rather cute. It is too bad that it was covered by the stamp.
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Although the card shows Arizona, and has a US stamp on it, it was sent by a Taiwanese Postcrosser!
It says,"Hello. I am Daniel, I am from Taiwan, I love to play soccer and read The Hunger Games and all Rick Riordan novels. "
When I thanked him, I let him know that I have read the Hunger Games and my niece and nephew have both read Rick Riordan novels. They love them!
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| Red Rock Mesa |
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This beautiful card was sent by Mei-Ching. She writes," Hello! Many greetings from Taiwan. I live and work in Taipei City now. I like reading and cross stitch. I have a cat named Li-Bai. Best wishes."
I love this card. It has a sort of pearl luster about it and it just seems quite personal.
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| The Allure of Taiwanese Ladies Accordion, 1935, Chen Chin, Taipei Fine Arts Museum Collection |
Again with a gorgeous stamp! The stamps from Taiwan are lovely.
3 comments:
I like the first postcards and the stamps: it's really an original design. But I understand that you feel disappointed by the fact of receiving such impersonal message... It has happened to me a couple of times. Maybe the senders can't understand or write English... (but why they are postcrossers, in this case?)
You're right, the design is really cool, BUT the postcrosser has sent it to a lot of people. When I looked at their sent cards, it was sent to almost everyone on a full page, and there was more than one page like that.
In my profile I ask that people don't send me the same card they send to everyone.
I think you may be right about the not understanding English part. The typed note on the back had good English though and suggested meeting up if I was ever in Taiwan. If they can't speak English, why would they want to meet up!!!
Anyway...lots of Japanese people do postcrossing and don't really speak English well. I've seen a profile of a guy who obviously used a web translation site to write his profile. It didn't make any sense at all! He does send decent cards though!
I did complain to postcrossing once, not about this person, but someone else who sent me the exact same card they sent to everyone, but postcrossing said they can't do anything about it because the person isn't breaking the rules. It's true, they aren't, but a lot of these people ask for Gotochi cards, or gorgeous, expensive cards, and send out not so great cards.
It's a bit of a rant with me. Sorry!
Thank you for visiting though :)
No rant at all, I think you're right. I've never sent a postcard I don't like myself, except in the case it was in the receiver's wishlist. And I also try to write different messages, appropriate for the profile (I think of "profiles" instead of "people" when it comes to Postcrossing...). I consider it wouldn't be fair to do the contrary. And, honestly, I can't see the point of spending money in sending impersonal messages. Why don't send an e-mail instead? I mean... I like snail mail because it is NOT impersonal...
But at least... the postcard is nice! :D
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