The 349th & 350th Postcard(s)
My 349th and 350th received cards came together, arriving on June 26, 2015!
The top card is of The Door-God, seen in many temples in Taiwan. They are believed to protect the temple. This card traveled 7,648 miles in 13 days from Tainan City, Taiwan sent by user anchi1997.
The second card is of Grand Duchess Marie Nikolaevna Romonov in a photo from 1910. She was one of the daughters of the Tsar Nicholas II the last Tsar of Imperial Russia. She was murdered at the age of 19 years old on July 18, 1918 in Yakatrinburg, Russia by Communist forces. She was murdered along with the the the rest of her family.
Notably, these cards arrived on June 26, 2015 and Marie Romonov was born on June 26, 1899 (old style, June 27th, new style). Considering that by the time I got the mail that day it was after midnight (and thus June 27th), I received this postcard of Grand Duchess Marie on what would have been her 116th birthday.
The card traveled for 4,991 miles from Moscow, Russia to the US in 19 days and was sent by Vodolej.
For the first 350 postcard received, those cards have traveled a total of 1,667,279 miles for an average of 4,763.65 miles-per-card with the cards coming from a total of 43 nations! The national breakdown of cards looks something like this:
Germany (56)
Russia (46)
Netherlands (35)
USA (29)
China (19
Taiwan (19)
Finland (19)
Belarus (14)
Czech Republic (12)
United Kingdom (11)
Ukraine (9)
Turkey (6)
France (6)
Poland (6)
Belgium (5)
Australia (5)
Lithuania (5)
India (4)
Hong Kong (4)
Three Cards From Each of These Countries
Brazil
Canada
Japan
Two Cards From Each of These Countries
Denmark
Estonia
Switzerland
Bulgaria
Norway
Latvia
Portugal
South Africa
Spain
Italy
And One Card from Each of These Countries
Algeria
Azerbaijan
Romania
Venezuela
Austria
Ireland
Slovakia
Sweden
Indonesia
Thailand
Malaysia
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