Comment: Thank you for your postcard! Unfortunately I need to leave you a 3 rating, because you marked the swap sent Dec 14th (the deadline), but it has a metered postage from Dec 16th which proves it was sent then. Had you contacted me about sending late before the deadline passed (there was no communication from you at all at any point) I wouldn't have had to leave this rating. I hope you understand. Edit: January 8th. I know the blue boxes, I mostly drop my mail in to those too -- BUT in this case the card was sent with metered postage (those they print out at the post office desk, white labels saying the price of the postage and the date it was printed) and not with a real stamp - so it was taken to the post office on Dec 16th instead of dropping it in a post box on 14th (to do that it needs a real stamp).