u/MNJohn - Thank you for the ‘EAT FRUIT BE HEALTHY’ postcard, it hits exactly right (and the bonus Hawthorne stamp)! I can certainly relate to getting a touch too much sun — I’m currently feeling…crispy.

u/cattily - Thank you for the ‘The Big Sleep’ card (very happy to have it), and CONGRATULATIONS for pulling tall pottery walls! I have never once touched a pottery wheel, so I shall pretend to know what you mean; your sketch of the feat, however, is amazing and transcends the barriers of my ignorance.

u/RoxanneBarton - Thank you for the adorable Paris-at-night cat card (though it gets slightly less adorable when you realise that the family of cats gazing into the distance are actually staring down that one unsuspecting pigeon!).

u/Jennnnnnnnifer - Thank you for the Florida postcard; I request new(ish)ly-adopted cat tax!

u/pbjohnny - Thank you for the National Cherry Blossom Festival postcard, and the crane patch — I’ve never ironed on a patch before, so I’m very excited! Where did you end up affixing yours?

u/nahboiz - Thank you for the crimson sunbird card; I’ve had a good summer for birds!

u/cheeneebobeanie - Thank you for the Philippines card, it’s a very pretty one. Is the culture dramatically different between the islands?

u/shazie13 - Thank you for the Kyoto postcard! I’m enjoying how on-the-nose the collection’s name is — ‘A Collection of Excellent Photographs of Kyoto’ — can’t argue there.

u/ImOkReally - Thank you for the nature-scene postcard, and a shoutout to that one very attractive Louise Nevelson stamp. Shapes!

u/stephkempf - Thank you for the get-well-soon card, I do indeed feel better, setting eyes upon it!

u/eccentric_bee - Thank you for the AI art card, and a pang of guilt that I’m only just responding, in August, to your question about whether it’s warming up for spring! (And in answer — it got altogether too warm, but now I’m sad that it’s cooling again.)

u/TigerLady13 x2 - Thank you for the cat card and the bafflement — I don’t at all remember if there was any context to your message (or if it is all your very own madness), but yes, of course I shall be rushing over to claim my tiger-farm inheritance forthwith. …Sole heir, you say? Well, then, a sailing trip sounds the perfect opportunity to accidentally tip you overboard and expedite the process :) And thank you for the Easter card, too!

u/ninajyang - Thank you for the RAoC 10th anniversary card!

u/wabisabi_sf - Thank you for the RAoC 10th anniversary card, and the stickers!

u/viktor_vogel - Thank you for the bird card; did you fulfil your warm-weather plans of getting back into nature?

u/snailmailer142 - Thank you for the rude card; off I piss!

u/Jane_Q x 4 - Oh, but these are top tier, thank you very much (‘Sorority Sl—s’ has me cackling, and if I were at uni, that would go up on my wall in a flash). I’m envious of your rich and textured dating history, and I would like to put myself down for a pre-order of your modest-sized relationship book, please! Thank you for the tarot reading and the advice (which hits on something I’ve been trying to work on, so it was very prescient of you). I also find actually speaking my target language to others an excruciating ordeal, though Germany forced me to open up just the tiniest bit.

u/disabledimmigrant x 5 - Good to have you back in my mailbox for May (though I wasn’t here then, alas); I’m glad you’ve been getting some fun outings in. Take your time catching up, of course, but in the meantime — same address?

u/Slavkan12 x 13 - I should have let you know earlier that I did successfully receive this, I just had to rush on in my journeys with barely a day to spare. Now that I’m back, I see that it is bursting with goodness (not that I ever imagined otherwise, of course); I shall aim to reply within the week.

u/boogerzombie x 18 - I feel like we’re in an unspoken competition to each send the other more cards every turn — soon enough, we’re going to have to hang around at home waiting for our oversize package deliveries. That said, I am falling upon your moderately-sized package with glee. (Hmm.)