Last November, a group of Indian postcrossers got together in Mumbai, on 11/11/11. The goal? To bring postcrossers closer together, and create a Postcrossing family in India!
In attendance were exactly 11 postcrossers (what a neat coincidence!): indianfriendszone, seetas, Yuktie, Kanthi, anushankarn, kevindesai777, NishaJ, manojkamat_2005, kaushal, aditicm and Manasi.
Together they wrote and sent postcards with India’s Post special cancelation mark of the day, showed each other their collections, and shared tips on to store and preserve postcards.
Here are a few photos from the event:
Amit S, organizer of the meeting told us that “With all the excitement members didn’t realise how time flew by, some had to rush back home and the others decided to move on to a nearby restaurant for some coffee and snacks and more discussions!”
Time does fly when you’re having fun! :)
PS – Never been to a Postcrossing meetup before? Look up the upcoming meetings on the forum, or set up your own!
50 comments so far
Congratulations for this meeting in India ! Wonderful ! So nice to read such articles from a far country. I always enjoy receiving cards from India... can't wait for receiving more soon ! Love to each of you there, from France.
Haven't receive any cards from India yet. Hope I'll receive some soon!
What a great idea to produce 11 11 11 postcards. Great meeting
i have never sent or received anything from there... :(
I did a direct swap with indianfriendzone before and he is vey nice! I love Indian cards so much! My goal is now to get cards from Pakistan, Nepal, an Bangladesh!
I hope that it was a nice meeting
Olá, everybody,
I received a card from Juni and I loved it. Congratulations for your meeting!
Baraivel
Congratulations for your meeting..it is nice to share a hobby with others
I got one of their cards! woot woot! Meet-up cards are wonderful :D
here is the card and the postmark -
http://www.9teen87spostcards.blogspot.com/2011/12/mubarak-mahal-in-india.html
wow!
It is my pleasure to be a member of this group .. delighting moment
It was great re-living the meet up through this post!! Hope there are many more such meet ups in the years to come!
I was unable to attend as my exams were going on :(... But i am happy that the meetups have kickstarted in India... We'll definitely have more...
So nice~
congratulations (once again) to Amit and Sita for hosting such a successful meeting , and I loved the meet up cards that I received too.
Congratulations! and thanks again for the great card!
It's truly wonderful..i wish i could have attended. I'm glad to receive the meet up postcard with special cancellation from postcrossing friends who attended this meet up:) Looking forward to next meet up in 2012:)
I was lucky enough to receive one of these cards! Thank you Sita for organising it and for everyone for signing it! P.S. Sita, love your outfit!
I got a card from this meeting, thanks to Kanthi! It is really cool now to read about it and see the pictures.
surprisingly i got wonderful postcard with that special date stamp (from organizer of meetup) BIG THANK YOU AMIT :)
https://picasaweb.google.com/104457714981454933479/MyPostcards#5679244008120953250
https://picasaweb.google.com/104457714981454933479/MyPostcards#5679239033323108274
this one its really nice:
https://picasaweb.google.com/104457714981454933479/MyPostcards#5679239033323108274
It will be great to receive one of the postcards from that meeting because it was on my birthday! :)
It's so nice to see you all on these pictures, I got the beautiful 11-11-11 via Yuktie! Many thanks to everybody who signed the card too. Very special. Groetjes Gery
Awwww, I would love to receive a postcard from India! :)
Thanks AMIT for the 11-11-11 postcards!
I love meetups! :)
How wonderful! Thanks for sharing!
congrats for starting meetings in india!!!! I took part untill now in several meetings in DE, AT, FI, CZ and of course in IR, and it's really huge fun and bring us more familar to other postcrossers - all the best for you in your future!!! I'm always thankful for the great postcrossing idea!!! (although pls don't wait anymore for cards from IR as we had an awfull new postage fee, which is 20 times higher than before and nobody is active anymore... :-((((((((((((((( but I'll never leave the postcrossing family!!!!)
@carmen1405 , aleoliva86 , nisha : if you wish we can swap postcards…
@rkneo11 and manu_hsp : I wish you can attend the next meetup..
@ Duplevista : Next meetup? Whenever members are willing too… Hoping we can have a meet in HAMPI (UNESCO place)
@ 9teen87 and GabijaGiriwala : Thanks for uploading Meetup Postcard and Special Cancellation :)
@ walle and nisha : If you wish to have the meetup postcard then you can try requesting NishaJ on India Forum
(link : http://forum.postcrossing.com/viewthread.php?tid=58780&page=2 )
@ ipuenktchen : Its really a sad news… Not just Postcrosser , infact others mite also be affect which the revised postage. I wish the Postal Department can change it again, if many people write to them.
Thanks to everyone for your wishes and I hope we can see more members attending in future meetups in INDIA, and even International Members.
And thanks to all the 11 members who made this successful meetup :)
dear indianfriendszone, thx for your reply (and I think you also visited recently my blog, as I saw your country flag ;-) ) - we cannot be hopefull as this depends to the world postal organization and our currency.. it's less than one euro.......... no chance............... - take care, ipue..
I received a great card from this meeting, thanks to seetas and all the wonderful people there. Thank you! I'm sure it was a great meeting :)
I really wanna get the pc from India.happy postcrossing~
NEXT MEETING 12-12-12 ???? Greetings from a Dutch guy now living in France /VincentJJ
Amits! Thank you! I also am lucky to participate in to this project. I received a pretty postcard with Cancellation dated 11/11/11 form this meeting.
@ipuenktchen: Sorry to hear about those postage taxes increase - that is not good news at all :(. Can you share with us how much is now the postage from Iran to foreign countries?
It's wonderful! The cards and stamps with special stempel are great! Thank you for sharing with us. I wish you many more meet ups and hope to get a card from one of your next meetings;-)
Jai Ho !!! Three Cheers for All the Indian Postcrossing Members !!! I missed this amazing Meetup but lucky enough to get the card signed by all the members!!! Thanx All !!! Looking forward for the next meetup !!!
looks like a wonderful postcrossing meetup!!!
Fantastic!
Congratulations for the great meeting! and thanks again for the great card!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2685380367729&set=a.1562717141850.2081581.1052990554&type=3&theater
amazing! postcrossing meetups are really very fun :D
Great meeting! dear indian postcrossers! Welcome to Tomsk, Siberia! There are so much postcrossers!))
What a signifciant and lucky number you chose for your meet up date! Such serenidipity that 11 people turned up...what a happy group. Best wishes for more ahppy meetups. thank you for sharing.
I'm also one of the lucky people who got one of your cards, guys!!! Thank you thank you so much!!!
I absolutely loved it!! Not only because of the unique date, but especially because postcards from meet-up are just great!!! Postcrossers united! :D :D
That was really amazing that you guys got a meeting going on there! Also, very good to hear that everyone enjoyed it! Hopefully that could happen in Canada too and that I will receive and send many to India soon =)
Cool! I wish I have such card :)
Any tips I can get from fellow postcrossers in India? I have joined 5 months back, I am from Bangalore.
What a lovely meetup!
I hope to attend a Postcrossing meetup someday! :)
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