Boots and Postcrossing

[mortonfox]

After one week of travel via UPS Ground, my boots have arrived at Columbia Sportswear Warranty Department. I've been following their progress using TrackThis, which sends me notifications via Twitter. If you're on Twitter, give it a try the next time you're sending or receiving a package.

Postcrossing update: I'm now up to 543 postcards sent, 512 received, over 4 million kms of sent distance, and 8th on the country leaderboard. It's still a lot of fun, although my postcard collection has now filled up two boxes and is starting on a third box! Yesterday, I got a postcard from a rather remote location. This card is from Xinjiang Autonomous Region in China, a sparsely-populated area in the middle of the Asian continent.

Another postcard I got was interesting more for its postage stamp than for the card itself. This hologram stamp was on a postcard from Finland. My scanner doesn't do the hologram justice. If you tilt the stamp, it looks like the skier is skiing down the slope.

And lastly, here are my current postcard stats by country:


Postcards Sent

Rank	Country	Postcards	Percentage
1	Finland	107	19.71%
2	Germany	61	11.23%
3	Netherlands	38	7.00%
4	Japan	23	4.24%
5	Canada	22	4.05%
6	Portugal	19	3.50%
7	Brazil	19	3.50%
8	United Kingdom	18	3.31%
9	Estonia	14	2.58%
10	Belgium	14	2.58%
11	Austria	12	2.21%
12	New Zealand	12	2.21%
13	Taiwan	11	2.03%
14	Lithuania	11	2.03%
15	China	11	2.03%
16	Italy	11	2.03%
17	Spain	11	2.03%
18	Australia	10	1.84%
19	Switzerland	10	1.84%
20	Norway	9	1.66%
21	France	9	1.66%
22	Poland	9	1.66%
23	Singapore	7	1.29%
24	Russia	7	1.29%
25	Belarus	5	0.92%
26	Czech Republic	5	0.92%
27	Thailand	4	0.74%
28	Turkey	4	0.74%
29	Philippines	4	0.74%
30	Slovakia	4	0.74%
31	Slovenia	4	0.74%
32	Hungary	3	0.55%
33	Serbia	3	0.55%
34	Malaysia	3	0.55%
35	Denmark	3	0.55%
36	Sweden	2	0.37%
37	South Africa	2	0.37%
38	Indonesia	2	0.37%
39	Ukraine	2	0.37%
40	Ireland	2	0.37%
41	Greece	2	0.37%
42	India	2	0.37%
43	Hong Kong	1	0.18%
44	Macau	1	0.18%
45	Bulgaria	1	0.18%
46	Guatemala	1	0.18%
47	Romania	1	0.18%
48	Qatar	1	0.18%
49	Latvia	1	0.18%
50	Chile	1	0.18%
51	Bahamas	1	0.18%
52	Croatia	1	0.18%
53	U.S.A.	1	0.18%
54	Moldova	1	0.18%
	Total	543

Postcards Received

Rank	Country	Postcards	Percentage
1	Finland	116	22.66%
2	Germany	74	14.45%
3	Netherlands	43	8.40%
4	Brazil	24	4.69%
5	Australia	18	3.52%
6	Japan	18	3.52%
7	United Kingdom	16	3.13%
8	France	16	3.13%
9	Portugal	15	2.93%
10	China	14	2.73%
11	Spain	13	2.54%
12	Canada	12	2.34%
13	Estonia	12	2.34%
14	Taiwan	10	1.95%
15	Italy	10	1.95%
16	Lithuania	9	1.76%
17	Russia	9	1.76%
18	Hungary	7	1.37%
19	Norway	6	1.17%
20	Thailand	6	1.17%
21	New Zealand	6	1.17%
22	Belgium	5	0.98%
23	South Africa	4	0.78%
24	Greece	4	0.78%
25	Malaysia	4	0.78%
26	Sweden	3	0.59%
27	Belarus	3	0.59%
28	Ireland	3	0.59%
29	Philippines	3	0.59%
30	Turkey	3	0.59%
31	Switzerland	2	0.39%
32	Korea (South)	2	0.39%
33	Luxembourg	2	0.39%
34	Singapore	2	0.39%
35	Austria	2	0.39%
36	Latvia	2	0.39%
37	Poland	2	0.39%
38	Slovenia	2	0.39%
39	Egypt	1	0.20%
40	Pakistan	1	0.20%
41	United Arab Emirates	1	0.20%
42	Czech Republic	1	0.20%
43	Iceland	1	0.20%
44	Mexico	1	0.20%
45	Mauritius	1	0.20%
46	Israel	1	0.20%
47	India	1	0.20%
48	Moldova	1	0.20%
	Total	512

Comments

[0ccam.livejournal.com]

I told you about PostCrossing and I have yet to ever send a card myself. And you're up to 543.

where it all began (http://0ccam.livejournal.com/336782.html) back in 2006.

[thomasj.livejournal.com]

Man, finland is really into postcrossing.

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

Yep. They account for 22% of all Postcrossing postcards sent.

Country chart here: http://www.postcrossing.com/stats/postcards