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When did you last send a postcard?

Reading: The Lost Art of Postcard Writing by Charles Simic http://bit.ly/oOz2OY

  1. nybooks
    NY Review of Books@nybooks
    When did you last send a postcard? bit.ly/oOz2OY
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 14:36:02
  2. alexisgoldstein
    alexis goldstein@alexisgoldstein
    Aren't tweets just abbreviated postcards to the world? RT @nybooks When did you last send a postcard? bit.ly/oOz2OY
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 14:37:00
  3. mazzie
    mazzie (Official)@mazzie
    @nybooks last week. and I sent two letters yesterday! :)
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 14:37:49
  4. TobiasCarroll
    Tobias Carroll@TobiasCarroll
    @nybooks For my part, in June -- though apparently my handwriting is such that no one who received them could read them.
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 14:37:59
  5. parlementum
    Charles Roth@parlementum
    Yesterday, let's bring it back RD @nybooks When did you last send a postcard? bit.ly/oOz2OY
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 14:42:37
  6. elemveee
    lmv@elemveee
    Why, just last week. Does that make me middle aged or elderly? RT @nybooks When did you last send a postcard? bit.ly/oOz2OY
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 14:43:16
  7. expressiongoes
    AlejandrancellA@expressiongoes
    @nybooks oh, my last postcard was sent many years ago. So many I can't remember.
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 14:49:03
  8. JohanOosterman
    Johan Oosterman@JohanOosterman
    @nybooks Today I send four cards from Bad Reichenhall in the German Alps to kind people who still do not live all day in a virtual world.
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 14:52:44
  9. mattnycs
    Matthew Fishbane@mattnycs
    .@nybooks a month ago, from the Solomon Islands.
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 14:56:34
  10. cjpurcell
    Conor Purcell@cjpurcell
    @nybooks to my 92-year-old grandad who lives in Clare, Ireland. I sent him one from Cannes. He had never heard of the place.
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 14:57:34
  11. MarjoMoonen
    Marjolein Moonen@MarjoMoonen
    @nybooks Today! I love writing - and receiving- them!
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 15:04:04
  12. AaronGilbreath
    Aaron Gilbreath@AaronGilbreath
    @nybooks in early June, while on a roadtrip through rural southern California, sleeping in my rental car, researching a piece of writing.
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 15:05:22
  13. HeleenMees
    Heleen Mees@HeleenMees
    @nybooks I literally unlearned handwriting. Only reluctantly do I send anything by royal mail.
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 15:06:39
  14. theladyisugly
    Bárbara Santana@theladyisugly
    @nybooks Two weeks ago, from Edinburgh to friends in the US and Australia. I should do that more often.
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 15:08:27
  15. knowsnothin
    Luke J@knowsnothin
    @nybooks sent a post card from Indonesia to Australia in week 1 of a 3 month trip and beat it home. Gave up after that.
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 15:08:40
  16. KellyUncut
    Brian@KellyUncut
    @JohanOosterman @nybooks ....hate postcards .. Too 'virtual' for my taste ... Real direct human engagement much better ... Or twitter maybe?
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 15:09:32
  17. callumrsmith
    Callum Smith@callumrsmith
    @nybooks There are few things as pleasing as receiving a postcard. I had 2 last month, each is pinned to my notice board.
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 15:09:38
  18. DawnCorleone
    Dawn Corleone@DawnCorleone
    @nybooks Last year, from Vatican City, to my friend, a former nun. I wanted her to see the Vatican stamps.
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 15:12:18
  19. sarahbourne007
    Sarah Bourne@sarahbourne007
    @nybooks Last week. I send one a week to my mother who has Alzheimer's to remind her that she used to live here.
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 15:14:46
  20. YatesAndrea
    Andrea L. Yates@YatesAndrea
    @nybooks I send them regularly, for no particular reason.
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 15:15:21
  21. FrearUK
    Thomas Frear@FrearUK
    @nybooks My mum still wants one every time I go abroad, have given up posting them and just hand them over in person. Latest from #Bulgaria
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 15:15:37
  22. peterfrankopan
    Peter Frankopan@peterfrankopan
    @nybooks have a drawer full of postcards from travels around the world; couldn't find stamps and/or post office for any. And yet I keep them
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 15:16:31
  23. jennystokes22
    jenny stokes@jennystokes22
    @nybooks I about to wrote four from San Fran to Ireland!
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 15:17:17
  24. lizzi58
    elizabeth @lizzi58
    @nybooks I just mailed 18 postcards. One to each of my new kindergarten students! It may be the only handwritten thing they ever see !
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 15:19:43
  25. SighKingu
    香里園ウォーカー@SighKingu
    @nybooks sent ten or more out as I do every summer, in the tradition of shochuu mimai, Japanese seasonal letter writing.
    Fri, Aug 03 2012 15:20:19

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