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Tree Bucket posted:While I think of it- if you'd prefer to skip me (the postage costs to this continent will suck) that's completely okay! I've been meaning to send a bunch of regular goonmail since the start of the year and this will be good incentive. Will you believe that postage to any place outside of my own tiny country is the same for all destinations? Today the scrapbook was updated (I had a 4-day weekend to Luxembourg, France and Germany) and tomorrow it will be send out. Thank you all for your patience. Updated Book status: Dawncloak (instigator) Goons are Great Keetron IN TRANSIT to Tree Bucket <-- current location of book Tree Bucket Zoesdare Abyss Pixelante Genesplicer (not sure tbh, reading the reply, can you let us know?) Emily Spinach Chernobyl Princess Ulillinguist kafkasgoldfish Keetron fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Sep 16, 2025 |
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i would like to be put on the book list. thanks youuuuuu!
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Sep 16, 2025 02:15
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What kind of paper is the scrapbook?
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kafkasgoldfish posted:i would like to be put on the book list. thanks youuuuuu! Added you in the above list, happy to maintain it but also cool if Tree Bucket picks it up as the responsible party. Pixelante posted:What kind of paper is the scrapbook?
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I owe a very belated, but very appreciative, THANK YOU to the following goons:  Thank you Zoedare for the adorable Penguin Books postcard! Congrats and good luck on your grant application! Thank you Lamb for the Nashville Hot Chicken postcard! You have the prettiest handwriting; I aspire to have such pretty cursive! Congrats on seeing Pearl Jam, hope it was awesome. Thank you rear end Penny for the letter! Good luck on the car purchase and/or upgrade! Thank you Keetron for the hand-painted postcard and another cool Netherlands postage stamp! I wish I could do watercolors like you. _____________________________________ Letters have been mailed out to: Zoedare: I had originally made you a card back in July, but I only found it and mailed it out 9/11/2025. I'm sorry for the delayed reply. I have also just mailed out letters to Sharizard, Poo In An Allyway, and Poof today 9/18/2025.
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Sep 18, 2025 14:59
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I brought two 2-ounce letters to the post office just now. One for Tree Bucket in Australia and the other is for Pixelante in Canada. Based on the reaction from the tellers, you would've thought I was trying to mail an entire photo album in an envelope and call it a letter. They were flummoxed. So, I sent them as $4.55 and $2.19 letters, respectively. And I'm hoping they go through. If you do not get them after 21 days, please let me know and I will mail out something else. Edit: My goal is to have mailed something out to everyone on the list before December. Ulillinguist fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Sep 19, 2025 |
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Sep 19, 2025 17:10
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Ulillinguist posted:I brought two 2-ounce letters to the post office just now. One for Tree Bucket in Australia and the other is for Pixelante in Canada. Based on the reaction from the tellers, you would've thought I was trying to mail an entire photo album in an envelope and call it a letter. They were flummoxed. I'll aim to get you something back before we're in the depths of winter. I have dozens of hand-painted cards but I struggle to come up with anything worthwhile to say on them!
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Sep 19, 2025 22:04
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Keetron posted:Will you believe that postage to any place outside of my own tiny country is the same for all destinations? Today the scrapbook was updated (I had a 4-day weekend to Luxembourg, France and Germany) and tomorrow it will be send out. Absolutely!!!
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Sep 21, 2025 05:05
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Pixelante posted:I'll aim to get you something back before we're in the depths of winter. I have dozens of hand-painted cards but I struggle to come up with anything worthwhile to say on them! "Have a card, you crazy goon!" Being pretty sure I send you things over the past years, you might have noticed that I gave up on being coherent or worthwhile. In fact, I would rather receive a card with nonsense on it than nothing. You catching my drift?
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Pixelante posted:I'll aim to get you something back before we're in the depths of winter. I have dozens of hand-painted cards but I struggle to come up with anything worthwhile to say on them! Thank you. Please don't feel obligated to reply and/or rush anything. I'm just as happy making and sending out cards as I am receiving something in the mail.  Here are the sentence starters I've been using lately: 1.) The theme of the card I made and where I got the inspiration. 2.) Coffee, tea, or food I ate/cooked recently and what I thought of it. 3.) A book/article I read recently and if I recommend it or not. 4.) Music I've listened to recently and a mini 5-song playlist I recommend. (Recent playlists I've sent out include either intense Baroque instrumentals or modern Chinese folk music.) 5.) The view/birds/weather outside my window right now. 6.) Places I've traveled to and/or where I want to go someday. __________ Other penpal sentence starters: 7.) Your favorite animal and why. 8.) A movie you saw recently, thoughts? 9.) Things you do for exercise. 10.) Your yard/garden or something you're growing. 11.) Something you enjoy collecting, how did it start? How big is your collection? 12.) What is your pet doing right now? What is their name? 13.) Keetron posted:"Have a card, you crazy goon!" _____________ One of my hobbies is handmaking cards. I put a lot of time into them and I special order stamps to match the theme. Please let me know if you would ever like a specific theme, otherwise you will get whatever recently inspired me: 1.) Cats 2.) Classic Alice in Wonderland 3.) Classic Chinese 4.) Modern Japanese kawaii, Butterkun 5.) Classic Japanese 6.) Halloween circus 7.) 1950s storybook/school 8.) Black & white photo; 1950s Hollywood 9.) Native Americans 10.) Star Wars 11.) Dungeons, dragons, & crystals. 12.) Cozy Autumnal 13.) Shabby chic, botanical ephemera 14.) Food Ulillinguist fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Oct 8, 2025 |
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Sep 21, 2025 20:42
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A card has been mailed out to Opera Bitch. Your theme is classical Chinese. Inspired by the 2018 USPS stamp Lunar New Year: year of the dog. It's one of my favorites. 
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Sep 21, 2025 22:03
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As of next week Monday, my new address will be: 1634 W Columbia Ave Apt 2S Chicago, IL 60626 I do have mail set to be forwarded there, so hopefully nothing'll get lost. I think I may be able to hop by my old inbox until the 30th unless the new owner of my old address is a butt about it.
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Sep 24, 2025 15:44
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Thanks for the update and congrats on the new place! Letters were mailed out today 9/24/2025 for: Subjunctive Kafkas Goldfish Abyss Emily Spinach Barclayed.
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Sep 24, 2025 17:37
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I continue to collect postcards with the intention of mailing them and then forgetting about the whole practice for months at a time, then being too embarrassed about that to engage with the act of writing mail. it’s not a great cycle, I don’t recommend it; my therapist has described it as a “nice meaty problem” to work on together at some point, which I’m looking forward to! I am very grateful for the unrequited mail I continue to get, though—always lifts my spirits and I should say so more often
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Sep 24, 2025 19:49
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Sigh. Canada Post is on strike again. Don't bother with cards to us for awhile! I'll update when things are moving again.
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Sep 29, 2025 20:08
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Pixelante posted:Sigh. Canada Post is on strike again. Don't bother with cards to us for awhile! I'll update when things are moving again. Did you get the one I sent you on the 19th or is it stuck now? 
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Sep 29, 2025 20:24
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Ulillinguist posted:Did you get the one I sent you on the 19th or is it stuck now? Stuck, looks like.  Hopefully things get resolved quickly. I've got a $1000 insurance cheque stuck in the mail at the moment, not to mention some gifts that need to be sent out at some point.
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Keetron posted:Updated Book status: It has arrived! Highlights include motorbikes, atomic farm equipment and a low-key haunting. I hope to come up with something RAD and post it out in the next couple of days. (Sorry, postage to and from this continent is slooooooow) e: the parcel is now en route to Arizona! Tree Bucket fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Oct 1, 2025 |
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Sep 29, 2025 22:07
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I received a stunning letter from Ulillinguist. Thanks so much! My wife read it and now wants to be pen pals with you since you share many of the same interests. I told her I'd let her write her own contribution to my reply.
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Oct 2, 2025 02:12
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Abyss posted:I received a stunning letter from Ulillinguist. Thanks so much! My wife read it and now wants to be pen pals with you since you share many of the same interests. I told her I'd let her write her own contribution to my reply. I'm so glad you got it!  you're so welcome.Yay! I'll send her a card too! 
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Oct 2, 2025 23:43
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Ulillinguist posted:Thanks for the update and congrats on the new place! I received your letter last night! I love the envelope, gonna send a reply soon and I’m looking forward to trying the tea! :3
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barclayed posted:I received your letter last night! I love the envelope, gonna send a reply soon and I’m looking forward to trying the tea! :3 I'm so glad you got my letter and the envelope decorations survived!  I always wonder if the stuff I'm glueing to the outside gets torn off in transit or if the extra stuff inside gets removed as too much bulk. Glad to hear it all came through! 🙂
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Tree Bucket posted:It has arrived! Highlights include motorbikes, atomic farm equipment and a low-key haunting. I hope to come up with something RAD and post it out in the next couple of days. I think this might be on the radar! My USPS mail preview had a weird package tracking number pop up on it the other day. Very excited for this. I recently had a huge anxiety relapse, so I haven’t felt up to sending any mail, but I’m starting to work on that sloooowly. Ulillinguist, your card came on a very bad day when I really needed it, so thank you. I too have several cards and letters that I wrote and didn’t send, so there will be some interesting time jumps in them when they do arrive to their destinations.
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Zoesdare posted:Ulillinguist, your card came on a very bad day when I really needed it, so thank you. I too have several cards and letters that I wrote and didn’t send, so there will be some interesting time jumps in them when they do arrive to their destinations. Wishing you all the best, and I'm glad my card cheered you up a bit!  ❤️🩹A letter was mailed out to Vortmax 10/8/25. Six more to go and then I'll have sent a card to everyone.
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Oct 9, 2025 13:33
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Got a lovely card from Ulillinguist, thank you so much!!!
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Oct 9, 2025 22:34
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Ulillinguist, your card arrived at my previous place and I was able to grab it. It is a dang work of art. Very fun theme. Thanks!
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Oct 11, 2025 11:06
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You know what? I keep thinking I have no time or headspace, what with children and work amd stuff.... screw all of that, my hat goes in the ring: Mr. Cañamares Schröttergasse 37/2 1100 Vienna Austria Complete creative freedom. The teenager at home picks up the mail so bonus points if you shock him xD
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Opera Bitch posted:Got a lovely card from Ulillinguist, thank you so much!!! You're so welcome! I'm glad to hear you got it! Sharizard posted:Ulillinguist, your card arrived at my previous place and I was able to grab it. It is a dang work of art. Very fun theme. Thanks! You're so welcome, I'm pretty pleased with how the Alice in Wonderland card turned out! I'm glad to hear you got it. I just mailed out cards 10/14/2025 to: Goons Are Great Bid Bad Beetleborg IM Jack Dawncloak And a small package with a little something I made has been mailed off to: Sharizard _____________ I am currently finishing up making cards for: Plastic Pal DLAO and Ravenicus  Did anyone else not get a card from me yet?
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Holy poo poo! Thanks! 
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Oct 14, 2025 16:02
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Canada Post is moving again! They're doing rolling strikes, so stuff will trickle.
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Cozy Autumn cards have been mailed out to: Plastic Pal DLAO Ravenicus And that means I have succeeded at my goal of sending a card out to everyone before December! ------ ROUND 2 -----  Spooky postcards have been mailed out to:Lamb Genesplicer Keetron Ceramic Pig rear end-penny Pixelante Subjunctive Zoedare Kafkas Goldfish Ravenicus Poo In an Allyway Abyss & wife Goons Are Great Tree Bucket Vortmax Poof DLAO Chernobyl Princess Emily Spinach Muir Plastic Pal Barclayed Edit: I ran out of Halloweeny postcards! Non-spooky postcards have been mailed out to: Opera Bitch Big Bad Beetleborg IM Jack Dawncloak Sharizard - I didn't forget you! But, instead of a postcard I sent you that little package of stuff. Otherwise, everyone should have been mailed a postcard at this point. Let me know if I missed your name. 
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Thank you Ulillinguist for the postcard! I keep swearing im going to write more, but I looked up from my desk and a whole year has gone by since I sent a letter. Apologies, thread, 2025 has been Busy, but I'm gonna get back to it i promise!
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Chernobyl Princess posted:Thank you Ulillinguist for the postcard! I keep swearing im going to write more, but I looked up from my desk and a whole year has gone by since I sent a letter. Apologies, thread, 2025 has been Busy, but I'm gonna get back to it i promise! You're so welcome, glad to hear you got it!  I bought some new Cinnamaroll stationary, so little kawaii letters will be making the rounds.  Letters posted today 10/27 to: Lamb Keetron Edit - Letters posted 10/28 to: Genesplicer Ceramic Pig Ulillinguist fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Oct 28, 2025 |
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My address is: 5005 W Equestrian Place 2207 Sioux Falls, SD 57106 I've been working on digitizing and sharing family archives from the 20th century, so who knows, maybe I'll send people on here random reprints of letters from the 1930s LOL
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Urbane Decay posted:My address is: Congrats on digitizing family archives, that's a large project to undertake! Vintage ephemera is really pretty. Is it okay if I use your SA username for your address, or do you want your initials or something else there?
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Saw this on FB yesterday. New challenge: write your childhood house while drunk! (*drunk optional)
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I have received a lovely message a d awesome card from Ullilinguist. Wow. It deserves a response in kind.
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Pixelante posted:Saw this on FB yesterday. My mom still lives at my childhood home, and I already send her holiday cards, so I can't pull off this trick. But if someone else does, please post it! Dawncloack posted:I have received a lovely message a d awesome card from Ullilinguist. I'm so glad my card/letter made it all the way to Austria!
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I sent out a bunch of postcards recently, and I have a small package coming your way, Ullilinguist.
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