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Our second Postcrossing spotlight interviewed member is 64-year old Adrienne (adriennegarry) from New Zealand. She has been in Postcrossing for more than three years already and she loves the good things in life. Here’s what Adrienne had to say:

How did you come across Postcrossing? What got you hooked?

My internet provider used to have a weekly bulletin with interesting web sites and I think it was November 2005 when they were talking about the Postcrossing site and thought I would try it out. Just the fact of real mail arriving in the box at the front gate is the best thing – not knowing what is coming from where was the best bit! Now it is all the friends I have made all over the world. The downside is I just had to buy a filing cabinet to store all my received cards and they don’t all fit!!!

Do you have any other interesting hobbies?

Reading, cross-stitch embroidery, gardening, cooking, crosswords, but mainly travelling anywhere in the world. We just got back from Greece, Turkey, and Singapore and are off to Sydney, Australia in September. I am off to the South Island in three weeks to visit family. Planning on going to Tasmania with friends next year and back to Europe the following year. In the mean time I have to keep working at my real job in a local law office.

Show us your mailbox, your mailman/mailwoman, your postoffice or the place where you post or keep your postcards!

Adrienne’s mailbox, place where she post her postcards and her postoffice:

Adriennegary's mailbox
The mailbox

Adriennegary's postbox
Where all my mail gets posted
Adriennegary's postoffice
Postoffice where I buy the stamps



Show & tell us about your favorite received postcard to date, and what makes it special.

I have so many spectacularly beautiful cards and this one is not “beautiful” but it makes me smile every time I see it and that is the most important thing any of us can do in our lives – share smiles.

addriennegarry's Favourite Postcard.jpg

22 comments so far

sonataca, United States of America

nice interview!

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shui, Taiwan

Share smiles!!! :D Good point!

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kela79, Finland

Wonderful interview!!:) Enjoyed it!;)
Thanks Adrienne!

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Geminiscp, Portugal

Nice interview and photos! :)

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nowaglas, United States of America

What a wonderful interview, beautiful photos and great getting to know you even better!

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kazinhabueno, Brazil

Very nice interview!!! And I would love to have a mailbox like that, with the garden and the flowers around... :)

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wunderland, Canada

I can just picture all of Adrienne's postcards; a huge mountain of them that won't fit in a filing cabinet ~ that's amazing!

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inkie1010, Netherlands

Great interview! I have some great cards from Adrienne and I am very happy with them! Nice to see where they were mailed :)

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Delenna, Finland

Cool! From now on, everytime I update my 'AU/NZ to rest of the world RR' I can imagine how you've mailed the cards and how you smile when you go to your mailbox to pick up cards :)

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Christa, Germany

Nice to see the mailboxes where the mail are sent and goes into . Nice interview ! Happy postcrossing :)

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Ninocas, Portugal

Nice to see where some of my favourite cards started to travel ;)
Thanks Adrienne :)

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alcott1, United States of America

Great interview. Adrienne was in the first Forum group I joined and we've been in several other groups together since. I loved seeing your mailbox, Adrienne.

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iceylove, United States of America

I know her from PC forum~~

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Blogger, United States of America

I love the sharing smiles point! - great interview - I bet you buy a lot of postcards in all the traveling you do! Great pictures too - thanks for sharing

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rettaharp, New Zealand

Your postcard also makes me smile, it's so cute :o), it is hard to pick favourites when you have so many fabulous cards.

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zasa, Switzerland

great! i love to see where all the cards fits in :D

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Grisu, Germany

Nice to get to know you even better, Adrienne! :)

The postcard is soooo lovely, I like it very much! :)

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rita_simoes, Portugal

Great interview and amazing photos :)

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Vitor_Luiz, Brazil

Beautiful photos and great idea.!!!

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Lori45P, Canada

Thanks for sharing a bit of yourself with us, Adrienne. I loved the pictures, and could picture you walking down to your mailbox and smiling as you opened it up. Your gardens are beautiful!

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redjarl, Israel

Happy to know that my postcard was also in your lovely mailbox! What a wonderful garden! Your interview is definetely huge hook for all NZ postcrossers, it is better than clonin idea! Thank you, Adrienne, you made my day! My mom must read this!

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isagv, Germany

I had the luck to send an official to Adrienne. We know eachother from the forum.
Now I could see where your cards to me started to travel ;)
Thanks Adrienne :)

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