Welcome to swap-bot. I'm the host of the MAINE pc. I bet you have lots of opportunity to find PCs in different locations thanks to truck driving! I have one small consideration about your ratings declaration, though. Many people often drop mail at the PO or blue box or at their own house and can't guarantee it is actually post marked that same day. Especially with swaps that have a Saturday deadline, you may receive PCs with Monday postmarks and those really shouldn't be given a 3 unless you have reason to suspect they purposefully waited until Monday to mail for some reason. Or if it is an international swap a lot of countries do not postmark on Saturdays.
Welcome to Swap-Bot! My husband also works as a truck driver. Just wanted to give you a heads up that postmarks are not always to be trusted when rating. An example of this: All the mail in my town goes two towns over to the capital of my state. I have had letters I have sent to my mother, who lives in the same town as me, take two plus weeks to get to her. When I asked her what the postmark was on the letter she told me it was four days after I dumped the letter into the blue USPS box near my house. Another example: I have had friends in other countries mail me packages with tracking. While the mailed by date on the tracking is the date my friends dropped the package off at the their local post office the postmark on the package is sometimes up to a week later.
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Welcome to swap-bot. I'm the host of the MAINE pc. I bet you have lots of opportunity to find PCs in different locations thanks to truck driving! I have one small consideration about your ratings declaration, though. Many people often drop mail at the PO or blue box or at their own house and can't guarantee it is actually post marked that same day. Especially with swaps that have a Saturday deadline, you may receive PCs with Monday postmarks and those really shouldn't be given a 3 unless you have reason to suspect they purposefully waited until Monday to mail for some reason. Or if it is an international swap a lot of countries do not postmark on Saturdays.
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Welcome to Swap-Bot! My husband also works as a truck driver. Just wanted to give you a heads up that postmarks are not always to be trusted when rating. An example of this: All the mail in my town goes two towns over to the capital of my state. I have had letters I have sent to my mother, who lives in the same town as me, take two plus weeks to get to her. When I asked her what the postmark was on the letter she told me it was four days after I dumped the letter into the blue USPS box near my house. Another example: I have had friends in other countries mail me packages with tracking. While the mailed by date on the tracking is the date my friends dropped the package off at the their local post office the postmark on the package is sometimes up to a week later.