Post Crossing

I've been trying to get postcards sent to Rocketboy from all over the world for us to study. It may sound funny, studying postcards, but there is a lot to learn from one piece of cardboard and its travel to your letter box.

Things to look at on a postcard can be the stamp, the postmark, where it came from, and of course what is on the postcard front and the writing on the back.

To get these postcards myself and daddy have been asking friends and family on Facebook and through work to send them to us. So far we've received 6 - 4 from Australia and 2 from Canada.

Today I found another way to get postcards.... Postcrossing

Basically this is a website which you sign up to, to send and receive postcards from all other the world. All it will cost you is the price of the postcard and the stamp each time you send a card.

I signed up this morning and requested two addresses to send postcards to. The kids choose a postcard each from the post shop this morning, where we also got stamps.

Writing was a lot harder as both kids can't write yet, well Rocketboy is learning but not enough to write a postcard plus he would use the whole space just to write his name, so I had them tell me what they wanted to say as well as add some extra about our city.

Tomorrow we'll go for a walk to post our postcards and hopefully we'll start receiving some soon.