Arja Koskela, 48 y.o. from Virrat, Finland. She was the sender of the card registered as 3 million! She was introduced to the Postcrossing world by her sister and her niece. Now she agrees Postcrossing is a fantastic hobby!
- How did you come across Postcrossing? What got you hooked?
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First my sister Sirpa and her daughter Elisa read about Postcrossing and of course they felt excited about that. They told me how fantastic hobby Postcrossing is and I belived them…Sirpa is also my twin sister, so we often do same things… :) I agree with Sirpa and Elisa, Postcrossing is a fantastic hobby!!
- Do you have any other interesting hobbies?
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Oh, the books are near my heart! And handicrats of course!! I have made tiffanyworks and glass-meltingworks nearly ten years. Our family has an old house, so gardening belongs to my life and it’s a great hobby. When I have time, I walk in the near forest!!
- Show us your mailbox, your mailman/mailwoman, your postoffice or the place where you post or keep your postcards!
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Here is my mailbox near our house…True we have an awful roadside and nowadays it isn’t in a right place! :(
In my hometown there isn’t a postoffice anymore. So our mailbox, where I put my postcards, is near the shopping mall.
I keep by my cards in a folder, so it’s easy to watch them.
- Show and tell us about your favorite received postcard to date, and what makes it special
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Of course my favorite postcard is the first one… It was something special!! The card was from Oxford, England. I always remember that feeling when I found it in my mailbox.
7 comments so far
Lovely card, your first one. Congratulate on sending THE card!
Congratulations on sending the legendary card! Good work and keep postcrossing
Good profile. I like seeing how ordinary our mail boxes are and yet so different in other countries.
Again a great article about a dear postcrosser!
Did you ever receive a congrats card from me? It was signed by some other Dutch postcrossers too.
greets, dandilion
She is great!
That is so cool - Arja & Sirpa are twins!!! So Sirpa is on Postcrossing too? I think Sirpa's name sounds familiar incidentally; I may have sent/received a card from her on one of my account before.
What are those small circle things on the "Magdalen College" postcard, by the way?
Thanks to everyone! I have to say it was really amazing when I sent that famous card....I have got some many lovely cards after that, so beautiful messages... First I tried to answered to everyone but it was too big work...Sorry! = (
Yes, my twinsister Sirpa is also a postcrosser! = )
Those small circles are from a hole-punch, the card was too big to plasticpocket, so I had to punch holes in card = ( , it´s a little beauty mistake, I think!