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Travelling Postcard Round #1 EDITED

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Travelling Postcard Round #1 EDITED
Group:Active Aussie SWAPaholics
Swap Coordinator:Keruka (contact)
Swap categories: Postcards 
Number of people in swap:5
Location:Regional - Australia
Type:Type 2: Flat mail
Last day to signup/drop:January 11, 2016
Date items must be sent by:January 18, 2016
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

Sorry for assigning partners late - I've been quite remiss! I've extended the send date to Monday to allow for this :)

EDITED TO ADD: Please put postage on your postcard before you send it in an envelope to your partner. That means this first round you will put postage on the postcard and the envelope you send it in, but each future round you will only need to put postage on the envelope.

Hi all. This will be a series of swaps, generally run each fortnight. I've seen a number of variations of this swap and thought it would be fun (and cheaper!) to do an Aussie version.

For the first round, choose a postcard to send to your partner. This will end up being yours to keep, so choose one you like! Write YOUR OWN address on the postcard and then one line at the top - The date, your name/swapbot name and the city and state you are from. Then, send the postcard to your partner IN AN ENVELOPE.

For the NEXT round, you will write those same details on the postcard you received from THIS round and send it on to your partner. When you receive a postcard that is full, send it home WITHOUT AN ENVELOPE to the original owner of the postcard (whose address will be on the postcard itself).

At the end of the series, you will get back the postcard you started and can see where it travelled - hopefully it will visit many different places across Australia!

The more people we get to join this series, the further your postcard will travel. Please note there is no obligation to sign up to every swap in the series, but please do join as many as you can to make it fun for everyone. You can also drop out of the series at any time by talking to me and the other swap participants to try to get your postcard sent back to you.

For each round, please try to only fill ONE line on the postcard so as to leave as much room as possible for lots of rounds. Of course, if it's a small postcard you may need 2 lines, this is ok.

When you receive a postcard you send home, you may start a new postcard for yourself and send to your swap partner, or if you do not wish to start another postcard, send a note/letter etc to your partner so that they get something and can rate you.

Please don't hoard someone else's postcard. If you decide you no longer want to participate in the series, please talk to me about sending any postcards you have to myself or to the original owner.

RECAP - First round, start a postcard, write your address on it, write one line with your name/swapbot name, the date and your city + state, send IN AN ENVELOPE to your partner.

All swappers allowed who are in good standing. Due to the nature of the series I will ban anyone with questionable ratings, although I think we will be fine in this group :)

Any questions, please ask :)

Discussion

craftycol 01/ 4/2016 #

so first one addressed 2 u in envelope but who do u send the one you receive to or when do u send it. sorry if I seem dumb but I shall give it a whirl

mellyrose89 01/ 5/2016 #

When you get assigned a partner, you send the postcard in an envelope to them, and you will receive one to write on from someone else. Then when the next swap is put up, you will get the person who you pass the postcard on to. I hope that helps!

mellyrose89 01/ 5/2016 #

@Keruka You should probably include in the description that the postcard you address to yourself should have postage on it :)

Keruka 01/ 5/2016 #

Thanks @mellyrose89 for clarifying that. Yes Col, there will be different rounds of this swap. You send your card in an envelope this round when partners are assigned, and then hold on to the one you receive. Send it to your next partner when the next swap is put up.

@mellyrose89 I wasn't sure whether to or not, I figured when the person sent back they could put postage on it, but I can add to put postage on at the beginning if you think that better? :)

mellyrose89 01/ 9/2016 #

I think it would be easier and fair :) I might forget to put postage on another postcard!

Keruka 01/10/2016 #

I'll edit it now :)

mellyrose89 01/11/2016 #

Just letting everyone know - the postcard I am sending around is bigger than a standard small postcard so you will need to get a bigger envelope to post mine :)

mellyrose89 01/13/2016 #

@Keruka when will you assign partners?

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