United Kingdom

GB-609129

Lancaster Castle - Scolds Bridle

This card, mailed from Lancaster, is of a Scolds Bridle, an object previously used as a punishment for gossiping women.  The website for Lancaster Castle has a website page dedicated to the device.  

Germany

DE-3618731

Speicerstadt Hamburg

A photo of the port of the German city of Hamburg

USA - Iowa

Jewel Cave National Monument, Black Hills, South Dakota

Sent from Iowa, this WPA-style card is a poster for the Jewel Cave National Monument in nearby South Dakota

Belarus

BY-1457381

Welcome to Belarus

This card shows the Minsk Arena and celebrates the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship played in Belarus.  

Russia

RU-2983348.

The card also features a large number of stamps and a "NO WAR!" message, along with a call for peace.  The card, as you can see from the photo below, was mailed on September 1, 2014 which is apparently the Day of Knoweldge in Russia.  The writer sent the card from the relatively new town of Desnogorsk, Russia.

South Africa

The Big Five - South Africa

This direct swap card is my first card from that nation.  It is actually a card sent from another postcrossing user who I sent my first official card to the continent of Africa.  The card shows five of the largest animals of the country, including an elephant, lion, and rino.  

Special Post: 300th-302nd Cards Received

Today is not one, not two, but three postcards to celebrate the The 300th Postcard(s) received!

DE-4168261

Sasbachwalden, Germany

TW-1586610

Alishan, Chiayi

CN-1605469

Football Club Barcelona, Poster celebrating the 75th anniversary of the club in 1974

The 300th Postcard(s): 

Sometimes postcards come in groups.  That was the case on May 4, 2015 when I received my 300th, 301st, and 302nd official postcards on Postcrossing.  

The cards came from Germany, Taiwan, and China and come from users  and , 

The top card was sent by happymailbox came from Hamm, Germany traveling 4,250 miles in 9 days.

The middle card was mailed by Miranda1116 from Taiwan traveling 7,666 miles in 13 days.  This was also this users first card to arrive to a user!  

The final card was sent by Postcrossing user danielwagz traveling 6,660 miles in 26 days.

Denmark

DK- 37721

Copenhagen

This is my second official card from Denmark.  The country still has a fairly low postcrossing number (427 users as of January 2015) so it is a moderately rare country.  

I received my first Danish official card back in January 2014 and received this one in early December 2014.  For illustration, in retrospect, during that same time period I had received probably at least a dozen cards from some of the more active Postcrossing countries (China, Russia, the US, Taiwan, etc.

With the way that the Postcrossing numbers work, there were about 5,819 postcards sent from Denmark between the time it took for my first Danish card (DK-31902) to be sent to me until this card (DK-37721) was mailed out.

USA - Florida

St. Augustine, Lighthouse

This card of the St. Augustine, Florida lighthouse was sent by my friend Val.  St. Augustine is, according to the card, the oldest continual occupied European settlement in the US. 

France

Draguignan, France

Photo featuring what appears to be the clock tower of Draguignan, France, located not far from Nice in the south of the country.  The card is a direct swap from the Postcrossing Facebook page.