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what if we made a greeting card - a single card - travel the world

idea: every person is given the next recipient in the chain. when they receive the card, they sign it, put it in a new envelope, and send out again to their next recipient

if it gets too beat up, the current holder picks a new card. when it reaches the end of the chain, the last recipient sends it back to the first, who takes a picture to share with all participants.

and then, if we want to, we scramble the list (drop anyone who wants to be dropped, add anyone who wants to be added) and start again with a new card

#siblinghoodOfTheTravelingGreetingCard

edit to add: there's a signup now! airtable.com/appdoHZsRDUzgYu9q…

h/t @noctiluca


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#siblinghoodofthetravelinggreetingcard @verity, in a pantry near you
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lee
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ya I know I'm starting multiple projects but I'm pretty sure this should be very very very light touch
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lee
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I do think if this scales (and it has a far better chance of scaling than the #stationeryExchange) we might do multiple rings, but that's still fairly low touch
#stationeryexchange
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Vert
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oh this is an extremely cool idea
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Vert
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oh oh maybe but my adhd kills my ability to mail things! i dont want to be a weak link in the chain
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verity, in a pantry near you
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ayyyyy

I mean re scaling - theoretically any group of people could do it, right, if they had each other's details to share addresses with the next person (a la postcrossing?) and troubleshoot?

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lee
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yup! I figure it's easier and a bit safer if one person manages all the addresses though, as that's not sharing your address with the whole circle
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verity, in a pantry near you
verity, in a pantry near you
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agree - minimum requirement is the next person in the chain
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Agnes
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Can we do a lottery to pick who will be the ultimate recipient, who will be the person being greeted by the said card? 😆
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Agnes
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No I mean the *final* recipient, not the *next* recipient, and this is as opposed to the card stopping whenever it gets too beat up (which is unpredictable). But I’m happy with both!
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lee
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@agnes yes, the final recipient is also randomly chosen, the whole list will be random unless there are mailing limitations I have to work with
@Agnes
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lee
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@agnes (and if so, the only edits to the random list will be for mailing restriction reasons)
@Agnes
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@agnes (also i won't let myself be the start/end of the circle, someone else should be!)
@Agnes
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@lee @Agnes (do you already know about postcrossing.com/postal-monito… ? it only tracks the ability to send postcards (which afaik also covers the ability to send letters, at least for most parts of the world) rather than packages, but it should be what's needed here
@Agnes @lee
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@valhalla @agnes I knew about postcrossing from a distance but not this specifically!!! I'll check it out in the morning 💗
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@lee @Agnes it's the data they use to avoid assigning people addresses they can't send to, so it should be kept pretty accurate

it doesn't say anything about routes that may be delayed (e.g. from Italy I can send mail to Russia, and eventually it usually arrives, emphasis on eventually (the last two cards I've sent to Russia are still traveling, after 61 days))

@Agnes @lee
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Bomkatt
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how fun! I would need some peer pressure to remind me to get it back into the mail
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lee
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@bomkatt Reminder emails are totally doable as long as I have some idea of where in the loop it is....I will probably ask people to please kindly ping me on receipt and on sending it back out
@Bomkatt
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lee
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@bomkatt given reminder emails, would you be interested? should I put you on the interest list?
@Bomkatt
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Bomkatt
Bomkatt
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yes, please! I see the sign up and will get myself to it
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ok i made a signup for #siblinghoodOfTheTravelingGreetingCard (signup page has more info, as does hashtag), please figure out all the ways it breaks and/or doesn't give me enough info hahaha

i'm pretty sure it's enough for this project HOWEVER who knows

if i figure out issues I will email you for more/updated info

link: airtable.com/appdoHZsRDUzgYu9q…

if airtable is for any reason inaccessible to you, reach out directly and i'll get ya set


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#siblinghoodofthetravelinggreetingcard

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ngoomie
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sent my info + made sure to include info about which countries i can't send to due to canada post suspending deliveries to them
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Jared Brothers
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In the olden days, bandwidth was scarce and people would make digital copies by mailing optical media around. Setting up a chain mailing list was typical for fans of live recordings of improvisational bands and open source software distributions. With the immense capacity of SD Cards, terabytes of data would fit in a priority mail envelope.
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lee
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@brothers this isn't intending to send data but just do something fun, but that's cool
@Jared Brothers

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