Friday - Rainy in the morning, clearer at night.
Happy birthday to my younger sister! (Not that she’ll ever read my blog!)
A good day. I got up around 9 and watched House. I had breakfast which was an apple and some yogurt. Yum. I had a lazy morning and was enjoying myself when F called and invited me out for lunch again.
We went to Kappa Sushi again and had a nice time. I had quite a lot of different things, as did F. We did have to hustle to get out on time though. He dropped me off and I got on with my day.
I scanned some cards and also took some to the post office to send. I’ve had a bad Postcrossing week, sad to say. I had the rude “thank you”, and then yesterday I received a paper covered with labels and a very faded picture on it that was pretending to be a postcard. I asked the management of Postcrossing what to do about it, because I didn’t feel that the person sent me a postcard. Today they replied and said that I should register the card but tell the person who sent it how disappointed I was and that it wasn’t what I was expecting. After I registered it tonight, I discovered that about 95 percent of his sent postcards are the same picture, so he’s been getting really nice cards from people and sending out something that isn’t nice at all.
Anyway, after F came home, we relaxed for a bit and then went out for dinner. Tonight he took me to Grado and we had a lovely meal. It was a fish/meat combo and was delicious. We both enjoyed it a lot.
We came home and had a lovely evening together. I watched a couple of TV shows, Touch and then the rebroadcast of Shameless. We were both a bit shocked at that one because of Frank!
F went off to bed and I am up too late as usual. Tomorrow we might get our flu shots if the doc will give them to us, and then I have an afternoon class. Wish us luck!
Got to go. Night!
4 comments:
I can feel your disappointment at the poor card. I would feel ripped off, too.
I didn't think it was a particularly expensive hobby when I first started, but when I was home in the States last summer, I found postage to be something like $1.10 and then there is the price of the postcard, usually between 25 cents and 1.50 for really nice ones. Postcrossing could get very expensive very quickly back home.
Here we are lucky that postage is a bit cheaper but still, considering the time you spend choosing a card and then preparing it to send and scanning it and such, you would hope another sender would be as conscientious as you yourself are.
Here's hoping for more special cards coming your way!
Sorry, I meant to come back to this and reply.
I agree with you, that it actually is a bit expensive. I don't know about in the US, but in Canada, there's no postcard discount, so it costs as much to mail a postcard as it does a letter. I think we're a tad spoiled here!
When I complained to Postcrossing about the "card", the Admin is the person that told me to register it and tell the person that I felt cheated and was very unhappy with the card. (I planned not to register it at all.)
When I did register it, I got a not very polite note back from the guy. He tried to tell me that his "card" was worth $6.00. Snort.
Anyway, 90 or more percent of my Postcrossings have been quite positive, so I will keep doing it until I use up my cards! or longer :-)
The US is the same; postcards cost the same as a letter.
Maybe that guy is thinking about all the time he spent making them. Still, 6 bucks is pretty spendy for a cheap card. I bet other recipients are disappointed, too.
I'm actually thinking about making my own cards. There are no Awaji postcards anywhere! All I can find are bridge ones for the big suspension bridges at both ends of our island. Those are great, but there are so many other wonderful views here, too. How does one go about making a nice, thick, professional-looking postcard? My mother was so disappointed when she visited here and could not get any postcards. She ended up using my stock of Kyoto cards. I see a business opportunity here!
Hmm. I'm not really sure! I imagine that you must be able to take photographs and turn them into postcards. There might be some websites or photo companies that do that. Have you asked at a camera shop? People make wedding cards and baby cards all the time.
You take such gorgeous photos of your island-if the ones on your blog are anything to go by. They would make lovely postcards! I wonder if you'd be able to sell them too?!!
The ones for my city that I can buy aren't very good really...so Japanese that when I send them, they look homemade and cheap. There are a few I can get of the area around Tsuruoka that are beautiful--the river, the mountains, but not of places in my city.
Maybe my second career too?!
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