RFF POSTCARD PROJECT Part Deux... - Page 20

beyond · 06-21-2012

Just got back from Singapore yesterday and mom told me "How come you received so many postcards in one day?" I just smiled. Hahaha.

I ll be collecting mine today from the lab. And will send them out ASAP. Thanks guys.

KenR · 06-21-2012

I have received another 11 cards in the past few days. What's amazing about them is the diversity of opinions that the cards elicit when I show them to family and friends. One that I think is great is passed over as boring by others, and visa-versa. This is great fun, with each day bringing the question of "what cards did you get today?" and "what, only one today?" I can't wait for the next round.

seakayaker1 · 06-21-2012

Now sitting at 24 ..... 13 - B&W 11 - Color

Ted ~ Spokane, WA
Jim ~ Phoenix, AZ
Keith ~ Chino Hills, CA
Michael ~ Wesley Hills, NY
Harry ~ Walpole, MA
John ~ Tywyn, UK
Dan B ~ Seattle, WA
Kent ~ Hillsborough, CA
Jim ~ Austin, TX
Don ~ St. Peters, MO
Elvin ~ Baltimore, MD
Frank ~ Krefeld, Germany
Jason ~ Allendale, MI
Helen ~ Brookside, Australia
Kevin ~ New Rochelle, NY
Ken ~ West Nyack, NY
Ming ~ San Diego, CA
Rich ~ Bolton, MA
Jeremy ~ Deptfold, London, UK
Lynn ~ Freshwater, Australia
OC ~ Victoria TX
Randy ~ Philadelphia, PA
Riad ~ Pensacola, FL
Jamie ~ Oakland, Ca

Love the images!

. . . . . keep 'em coming!

rbiemer · 06-21-2012

My cards might be a bit late...I decided to use Moo and I think I broke it. Just as I got done entering my payment info, the site seems to have gone down.I couldn't load any pages at Moo and keep seeing only the message "the service is temporarily unavailable, please try again later".
Dang it!
I will try again later.
Rob

hteasley · 06-21-2012

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Originally Posted by raid

The US Postal Service is still rather inexpensive when compared with other countries. My most expensive stamp was $1.05. They have a simple pricing system for postcards:
$0.32 for USA
$0.85 for Mexico and Canada
$1.05 everywhere else in the world.

It's actually pretty interesting, how international mail gets handled: the sending country gets paid the postage, but the recipient country incurs a lot of the delivery cost. Countries that are net exporters of mail owe money to countries that are net importers, and apparently the discrepancies are resolved annually by the national postmasters, where everyone settles up.

Well, it's not *that* interesting, but it was something I hadn't considered until I learned about it.

Got Lynn's card today. It has a sticker on the front, which I am going to try and remove, I think.

raid · 06-21-2012

I got no cards today, which was a downer, but then I saw here that some people have received my card, which was good news!

rxmd · 06-21-2012

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Originally Posted by hteasley

It's actually pretty interesting, how international mail gets handled: the sending country gets paid the postage, but the recipient country incurs a lot of the delivery cost.

Also the delivery cost in the destination country is pretty much the same for any mail, domestic or international; and there may be third countries involved, too (your US postcards to Kyrgyzstan reach me by convoluted ways).

intheviewfinder · 06-22-2012

Raid's photojournalism card arrived in today's. Excellent.

randolph45 · 06-22-2012

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Originally Posted by rxmd

Also the delivery cost in the destination country is pretty much the same for any mail, domestic or international; and there may be third countries involved, too (your US postcards to Kyrgyzstan reach me by convoluted ways).

LOL.I remember sending a postcard from martinque to my mother in California. We had been home a month when she called to say my card had arrived postmarked Paris and was wondering why we had not mentioned going to France

marcr1230 · 06-22-2012

I've now just put my cards into the post box

Thoughts

Great project, so far I've received about 20 cards, all well done.

My MOO cards are good quality, however lower on contrast and without the deep blacks that I saw onscreen, although my card is still reasonable

Postage. Why does international postage from the USA cost over 3 times the domestic cost? It's more than the cost of making up the card!

Addresses - UK people , your addresses are so long...

Postal codes - I pity non USA recipients With 5 digit numerical postal codes, postcards may get some festive routing before they get to you

Ratios - not many ladies in the pool

Phillip - good luck, I hope they get to you

Arm hurts from writing, net time will print labels

Thanks Rob for setting this up

Awesome group sourced project!

hteasley · 06-22-2012

Raid's card arrived today... wonderful image. Definitely makes the Tahrir demonstrations more personal for me.

Jamie Pillers · 06-22-2012

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Originally Posted by hteasley

Raid's card arrived today... wonderful image. Definitely makes the Tahrir demonstrations more personal for me.

Same for me! And all the other great cards that have been arriving day by day. Such fun opening the mail these days.

Has anyone found a nice way to show off the complete collection? Like albums, frames, boxes... whatever? I'd like to save my collection from last year, this year, and (hopefully) future years.

JHutchins · 06-22-2012

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Originally Posted by hteasley

Raid's card arrived today... wonderful image. Definitely makes the Tahrir demonstrations more personal for me.

Did the sticker on the Australian one come off? If it's like the one on the ones I got it's a low tack adhesive -- stronger than what's on a post-it note I think, but still not so tough that you can't remove it without damaging the image.

Mine are addressed, stamped and will be put in the mail today on my way home.

proenca · 06-22-2012

great project !unfortunatly Ijust saw this now, hope there is a RFF POSTCARD Part Trois so I can join as well :-D

seakayaker1 · 06-22-2012

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Originally Posted by JHutchins

Did the sticker on the Australian one come off? If it's like the one on the ones I got it's a low tack adhesive -- stronger than what's on a post-it note I think, but still not so tough that you can't remove it without damaging the image.

Mine are addressed, stamped and will be put in the mail today on my way home.

The stickers with the bar code labels have all peeled off with ease on the postcards that I have received.

The nice part about having received 24 cards . . . . .

. . . . . not even at the half way point with plenty of more days ahead with anticipation to see what has come in the mail!

intheviewfinder · 06-22-2012

Here's a quickie shot of how I'm currently displaying the postcards (with reflected light and all). I have a painted an area of my office with magnetic paint to display prints in my home office....

FYI I've intentionally softened the image so as not to give away too much.

victoriapio · 06-22-2012

Rich,
Love the whole wall idea! Brilliant way to display them.
Was in Austin for work, the following have arrived:
Lynn from down under
Raid - like the image
Frank from Germany
Kent from 'frisco
Jamie from Oakland - love the framing of Alcatraz
Jason from Michigan - "reclaimed negative"
Randy from Phili
Ming-Yue - from Monterey - aquarium shot
Don from St Louis

have a total of 23 so far... and i really like the diverse collection of all the images.

merciless49 · 06-22-2012

Didn't get a card yesterday and got Raid's card today. Amazing shot...like so many said before, definitely makes the news event more personal.

Rich, amazing display, very cool. Amazing project that makes me anticipate the end of my day at work so I can go home and check the mail!

randolph45 · 06-22-2012

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Originally Posted by victoriapio

Rich,
Love the whole wall idea! Brilliant way to display them.
Was in Austin for work, the following have arrived:
Lynn from down under
Raid - like the image
Frank from Germany
Kent from 'frisco
Jamie from Oakland - love the framing of Alcatraz
Jason from Michigan - "reclaimed negative"
Randy from Phili
Ming-Yue - from Monterey - aquarium shot
Don from St Louis

have a total of 23 so far... and i really like the diverse collection of all the images.

OK Kent He said Frisco

Get the gloves on,time for some respect!

26 cards so far including mine which I mailed today along with everybody's

kdemas · 06-22-2012

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Originally Posted by randolph45

OK Kent He said Frisco

Get the gloves on,time for some respect!

26 cards so far including mine which I mailed today along with everybody's

Lol, I saw that!

victoriapio · 06-22-2012

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Originally Posted by kdemas

Lol, I saw that!

maybe i should have said "San Fran" ?

randolph45 · 06-22-2012

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Originally Posted by victoriapio

maybe i should have said "San Fran" ?

Nope all in or nothing

hteasley · 06-22-2012

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Originally Posted by randolph45

Nope all in or nothing

Real San Franciscans just call it "The City". Which is why real San Franciscans (like my wife) are so insufferable :-)

kdemas · 06-22-2012

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Originally Posted by hteasley

Real San Franciscans just call it "The City". Which is why real San Franciscans (like my wife) are so insufferable :-)

Very true! Check the jerseys of the Warriors, they say "The City" from back in the day.

rxmd · 06-23-2012

No cards for today, leaving my score so far at 13, all from the US.

I managed to convince the lady at the post office counter to give me an acceptable postage rate if I don't send too many cards at once. So I will send them out over the next few days for 28 KGS, which is about $0.55

So far I've sent out 28 cards, to everybody who is outside the US and to a few of the USians as well.