Julia (aka mad_madchen) hails from Moscow. She has several drawers full of postcards ready to be sent, and really enjoys choosing the perfect card that she knows will make someone happy! We asked her a few questions:
- How did you come across Postcrossing? What got you hooked?
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About 5 years ago my friend Olga told me about Postcrossing. I’ve decided to join as I like postcards since my childhood. And here I am! :)
- Do you have any other interesting hobbies?
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I love Blythe dolls. I have 12 dolls in my collection:
Also I collect Alice in Wonderland books in different language and Starbucks gift-cards. And I love cross-stitching.
- Show us your mailbox, your mailman/mailwoman, your postoffice or the place where you post or keep your postcards!
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This is my P.O.Box 1:
Over the years, I’ve received a lot of questions about it: please confirm your address, it’s too short, are you sure, how do you get it…? I really don’t know how it has happened that I got P.O.Box 1. I think it was a miracle, or luck, or position of the stars, something like that! :)
I have lots of postcards. It was always hard to say the numbers and once I’ve decided to weigh them. I discovered that I have 12 kg of postcards to be sent… yeah, I am mad, I know that! I store most of them in the drawers of my desk:
- Show and tell us about your favorite received postcard to date, and what makes it special.
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In fact it’s a difficult question because I’ve received a lot of beautiful postcards… I like Atelier Nouvelles Images, Nicoletta Сeccoli, Absolut Vodka, and many others. But my most favourite postcard ever… It’s hard to pick. I think perhaps this one:
In it, I see hope, loneliness, dream, search, aspirations, incompleteness, past and future. Absolutely great!
- What is it your favorite part of the Postcrossing process?
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All parts are great for me. Most of all I like to receive a new addresses and try to find the perfect postcard for the receiver — especially for “difficult” wishes. And I like to receive nice postcards, with interesting messages and beautiful stamps. I also like to read senders profiles after I register their postcards.
- Have you been surprised by any place that you have received a postcard from or sent a postcard to?
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I’ve been surprised over travel days. Just amazing example: this postcard from Russia to Greece (1,779 km) was traveling for 346 days! And that was the real traveling period!
- Have you inspired anyone else to join Postcrossing, or met any other postcrossers?
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Yes! My friend Eugene saw a post on my Livejournal and signed up to Postcrossing, and my son is a postcrosser as well. Sometimes we both go to meetups here in Moscow.
32 comments so far
Wow, what a great collection of postcards you have that still wait to be sent! And a nice postbox number - guess that you were real lucky :)
I also enjoy reading the senders profile of a postcard I just received as well :)
Thanks for sharing!
My husband thinks I am completely addicted to buying postcards, but with only 200 something postcards on stock he can´t complain :-)
I really love reading these postcrossing spotlights, thank you for sharing!
HA I have over 5000...
Nice to see more from you, Julia!
Hoping my postcards don't take years to reach your hands... Thanks for sharing your passion! And let me now when they arrive, pls!
I love having plenty of postcards in stock ready to send out as well. Sometimes though, it can be frustrating as I know I have the perfect card for someone but just where did I store it . . . . . . ?
It is lovely to see how someone else stores theirs.
Юлечка, как здорово увидеть тебя в посткроссинг блоге! Отличное интервью! :)
How nice to see a familiar face featured! :D
Wow! I love the one you choose as your favourite. A great card, indeed! Thanks for the article.
And I think, I have a lot of postcards to send....
I have two large boxes of postcards to send! What I can see in your drawers look very interesting! A wide range of interesting cards. Thanks for sharing.
Какая прекрасная коллекция кукол Блайз)))))))
That was interesting. I like the card that you picked as your favourite. Thanks for the article.
Another nice spotlight! Thank you for sharing, Julia:-)
I believe that PO Box #1 was meant to be!
wow, no. 1 mail box, how nice ^..^
Hi Julia - Great to see you here. I often wondered about your PO Box number and now I know it was just chance. See you on the forum :-)
Hello Julia, nice spotlight! I love your adress - short and simply. And my cards from our swaps had arrived very quickly there. Best wishes
Another nice spotlight. :)
Ho Julia! Wow a great collection! Thanx for sharing! Have a nice day. :)
Hi Julia, it´s really nice to find out more about you! I also wondered about number of your POB and had some doubts - but my card always reached you :-)
My number of cards to be sent is huge, but yours must be much greater!
Hi! I'm a rookie in the Postcard World but I think is amazing and full of beauty. I don't know draw, I only write, but every day I want more to learn it and collect pictures. Julia can decorate her homme with the postcards!!!! Fabulous.
Happy postcrossing!
Mireia
I am relaeved that I am not the only one with a whole lot off postcards to send My husband thinks I am crazy.Have 3 boxes full off postcards. very nice story and very recognizable. Lots off succes and hop you send me one soon
I love spotlights! This one is realy nice thanks for sharing :-)
Julia!!!! OMG I could see the FAMOUS PO BOX 1 ahaha!!! I felt -dunno why- happy to see where some of my cards arrived... and will arrive in the future, of course!!! :D
Nice to read your story *hugs* !!!
Julia so happy to see your spot light interview :-) Love your Blythe doll collection , I'm envious :-)
I also like to read the senders profile after I register a postcard ;)
Great article Julia, and I still love seeing your avatar in the forums. It always make me smile.
Interesting interview. But you know what is impressive? How positive the postcrossing community is! Beautiful cards, people wishing to please each other, telling nice words and sending their best regards, leaving so nice comments! What is this, heaven? :))) Seriously, I doubt there is any other social net with such positivity. Congratulations, everyone! :)))
it is a pity but Julia, the hero of this article, is the most unfriendly postcrossing company I ever seen...
I enjoyed reading your interview Julia. You look to have a fabulous selection of cards to send out!
Thanks for an interesting profile! I am hoping to grow my collection of postcards so I will always have the right one to send to a Postcrossing friend.
wow! nice ways of storing the postcards, and the postbox look so neat.:)
Nice to see you here, Julia! :) 12 kg of postcards - impressive! (Kilograms as the unit of measurement for postcards - pretty unusual... =D ).
Julia's address was among the very first 5 addresses I got at the beginning of my Postcrossing adventure... It took my postcards over 4 months to arrive at her famous nr. 1 mailbox... I thought they were lost... But we both were lucky =)
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