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Wednesday 30 December 2020

Postal System Related History in 2020 - Contest

Later Edit (in 2022): Me and my son won the contest! With my son so happy for his prize: a brand new laptop! :D 



Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year 2021!


This contest in organized by Postcardsmarket.com. If you are participating, you agree that your First name and country of origin will be published together with your story on postcardsmarket blog site.
What you have to do: tell others a fun, interesting, intriguishing, special, comic, out of ordinary and original (of course) story about something that happened to you in 2020 and is related (somehow) with the postal system, postcards, postcard collection, postcrossing, anything :) This year - 2020 - was entirely an "special" year, so let's make it fun!
Your text (minimum 2-3 phrases) - will be judged by an international jury :) and we will have a Ranking:
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1st place - voucher code of 50 euro (free shipping granted) - to be spent in our shop
2st place - voucher code of 30 euro (free shipping granted) - to be spent in our shop
3st place - voucher code of 20 euro (free shipping granted) - to be spent in our shop
All participants - will receive a postcard written and stamped (their wish) sent from Romania - only for minimum text and also must be related with postal system somehow - the jury will decide as well here.

The jury is composed of 7 international Members:

Foysal Shahriar Ratul - Bangladesh
Holger Kaufhold - Germany
Vinay Gokula - India
Suvi Vähätalo - Finland
Laura Lavagna - Italy
Riek van der Mast - The Netherlands
Mihnea Raducu - Romania

Each jury member will give a rank from 1 to 100 to each story (100 highest) - we will look for a story to be interesting, to be original, to be a good story :) and you can participate with more than only one story - every story will be an "entry" for our contest.
We will announce the winners on Sunday, January 3nd, 2021 - via email and also on our Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/Postcardsmarket. You have time for registering via this google form till 31st of December 2020, evening time in Europe - 21:00 Bucharest time (CET + 2:00)
Via this form we will collect also your email address - to have the possibility to communicate with you, data will not be given to a third party (we never give to a third party any of personal data that we handle - also in our shop)
The participation is not conditioned by any purchase made by you in our shop. If you'll enter in the contest with more stories - you can receive only one postcard sent for participation.

Thursday 21 May 2020

0506 - Postcard from Sweden

Sent: 06.04.2020
Received: 30.04.2020
Travel time 24 days

Sent via postcrossing platform



0505 - Chinese Ceramic

Sent: 20.01.2020
Received: 12.05.2020
Travel time: a lot! (113 days)

Sent via postcrossing platofrm



0504 - Joelle Josselin paint

Sent: 16.10.2019 (Cluj Napoca)
Received: 25.10.2019 (Near Bucharest)
Travel time: 9 days

Private swap




0503 - Scratcheable Bear card from Switzerland

Sent: 19.03.2020
Received: 08.05.2020
Travel time: 49 days

Sent via postcrossing platform





0502 - Cover of old magazine postcard - with interesting postmark

Sent: 31.03.2020
Received 21.05.2020
Travel time 51 days

Sent via postcrossing



0501 - Beijing Card snail mail

Sent: 02.02.2020
Received: 21.05.2020
Travel time:  a lot! (108 days)
Sent via postcadunited platform




Tuesday 19 May 2020

0497 - Self Isolation Wooden Postcard from UK

Sent: 29.04.2020
Received: 12.05.2020
Travel time 13 days

Private swap



0496 - Russian Old City Yaroslavl vintage view

Sent: 27.02.2020
Received 30.04.2020
Travel time 62 days

Sent via intpostage platform





0495 - 3rd Mexican Meetup Mexico City January 2020

Sent: 16.04.2020
Received: 08.05.2020
Travel time 22 days

Sent via postcrossing platform



0494 - Hong Kong robot postcard

Sent: 14.04.2020
Received: 08.05.2020
Travel time 24 days 

Sent via postcrossing platform


0493 - Luneburger Heide postcard


Sent: 16.04.2020
Received:08.05.2020
Travel time 22 days

Received via postcrossing platform


0492 - Finland Line SS Astrea 1891

Sent 14.04.2020
Received 08.05.2020
Travel time: 24 days

Received via postcrossing platform




Monday 18 May 2020

0491 - Prague Multiview Postcard

Sent:17.04.2020
Received: 08.05.2020
Travel time: 21 days

Sent by a friend (Marie Novotna form Czechia)



0490 - Krakow Museum old photo reprint

Sent: 15.04.2020
Received:08.05.2020
Travel time: 23 days

Sent via postcardunited platform.




0489 - Maxicard Tiina Lillak Helsinki 1994

Sent: 09.04.2020
Received: 08.05.2020
Travel time 29 days

Sent via posctrossing platform

Ilse Kristiina Lillak (born 15 April 1961) is a Finnish former javelin thrower. She is the 1983 world champion and 1984 Olympic silver medalist. She also twice broke the world record, with throws of 72.40 metres in 1982 and 74.76 metres in 1983.

On the stamp used (rare) - Sauli Väinämö Niinistö (born 24 August 1948) is a Finnish politician and the 12th President of Finland, in office since 2012.



0488 - Hong Kong Modern Sketch 1930


Sent: 17.04.2020
Received: 08.05.2020
Travel time: 21 days

Sent via intpostage platform


Saturday 16 May 2020

Thursday 14 May 2020

0484 - Postcrossing Cyber Meetup

Sent: 27.04.2020
Recieved:08.05.2020
Travel time: 11 days

Private swap



0483 - Griffith Observatory - California U.S.

Sent: 07.04.2020
Received: 30.04.2020
Travel time: 23 days

Sent via postcrossing platform

*interesting that on the front of postcard there is a typo error - missing an i from Griffith name.





0482 Army girl

Sent: 22.03.2020
Recieved: 08.05.2020
Travel time: 17 days

Sent via postcrossing platform



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