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Quick Postcard Swap #4 - International

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Quick Postcard Swap #4 - International
Swap Coordinator:smadronia (contact)
Swap categories: Newbie  Postcards 
Number of people in swap:31
Location:International
Type:Type 2: Flat mail
Rating requirement:4.90 (unrated swappers allowed)
Last day to signup/drop:April 5, 2013
Date items must be sent by:April 12, 2013
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

Time for a quick postcard swap. You're going to have 2 partners.

1) Go to your postcard stash. Pull out 4 postcards

2) Grab 2 envelopes . 3) Grab 2 slips of paper, write the swap name “Quick Postcard Swap #4 – International” and your Swap Bot ID on each

4) Put 2 postcards in each envelope, along with a slip of paper. Seal the envelope up.

5) Wait until partners are assigned. Then, address your envelope and send it off!

If this swap looks familiar, it's because it's done in a similar fashion to the anonymous tea trades @toupti does. I thought it would be fun to do a similar thing, but with items other than tea.

Swap deadline and send off dates are close together because these envelopes should be ready to go well in advance.

Rules: Your postcards need to be two different cards per envelope. If you have multiples, you can make your envelopes the same, because really, who's going to know you sent the same thing twice?

Advertising cards are allowed, but only 1 per envelope.

Zazzle, Vistaprint, and other "Create your own, we'll print it for you" postcards are allowed, but they need to be of decent quality, and only one per envelope.

Handmade postcards are fine, but of decent quality, and only one per envelope.

Store bought postcards are always fine.

Send what you have! I'm not putting 1 card limit on how art/tourist/photograph cards because it can be difficult to get a variety of cards in some places. If all you have is tourist postcards of Mt Rushmore, send those! If you can mix it up, feel free to do so.

Postcards should be in good shape. Dirty, badly damaged, mangled cards don't belong here. I do a swap to get ride of those sorts of cards, so they don't belong here.

4.9 or higher rating, newbies allowed. If you have more than one of either a 1 or a 3 rating in the last 6 months, I reserve the right to remove you from the swap. The same goes if you have swaps on your dashboard that are past send by date.

If you are a newbie, you must fill out your profile. I don't expect a novel, or for you to fill in everything (your favorite movie tells me nothing). But, I do expect information about you, and some likes and dislikes. One paragraph is not enough, you will be removed. Most of the recent flakers in my swaps have been newbies, if this continues I will not allow newbies to participate. If you receive an envelope from a swapper and you don't feel it meets the requirements of the swap, please contact me.

Anyone who fails to meet the requirements of the swap, or flakes, will be banned from all my future swaps. I will angel anyone who gets flaked on.

Discussion

brunettemusings 03/31/2013 #

I have a postcard by Jennifer Lilya my mentor and I am thinking of including it, it's well made considering she's a "famous" fashion illustrator, but I know people have problems with ad cards - so I'm including another postcard, is that okay?

Thanks! xxo

fawnscrafts 04/ 1/2013 #

can we send clean unused vintage cards?

smadronia 04/ 1/2013 #

@brunettemusings I don't care if you include an ad card. All I ask is that you only put 1 per envelope. So 1 ad card, one other kind is fine. If you wish to include an additional postcard, that's entirely up to you.

@fawnscrafts clean unused vintage cards are fine

NSMAC1 04/ 5/2013 #

well got mine packed up already.

fawnscrafts 04/ 5/2013 #

Mine will be picked for both swaps as soon as I click sign up, since vintage are OK. I just got a couple lots that had a few duplicates and one of most is enough for my collection. I hope my partners like vintages and host, thank you for making it small enough to use one stamp!

NSMAC1 04/ 6/2013 #

Ooohhhh I hope I get @fawnscraft envelope I love vintage, anything. :)

NSMAC1 04/ 7/2013 #

Okay mine are in the mailbox :)

mssarah01 04/ 7/2013 #

Yay!!!

smadronia 04/ 8/2013 #

The Send By Date has been changed to 12 April, extended out 2 days from 10 April. I wasn't able to assign partners until 24 hours after I was able, so I extended out the send by date to accommodate anyone who has trouble getting their things to the mail.

Zappinzzzoey 04/12/2013 #

Do you write on the postcards? :)

NSMAC1 04/15/2013 #

My partner from Japan got hers already, before my partner in the USA....go figure. I haven't received mine yet (but its still too early to start worrying)

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