I was thinking of making a thread like this a few days ago. I love getting mail!

Tarck has been proven to be filled with a bunch of morons who can't mail things out in time, but if there's enough interest I'd be so down with trading letters or random shit via USPS with people interested. But I digress...

Next time I do this, I'll be sure to post up in here. My g/f and some buddies of hers always trade burned CD's and photo postcards randomly. It makes me wish I had more friends spread out just so I could mail cool stuff to them.

I was involved with a print exchange a couple years back. It was cool to get a print in the mail; something totally random that was sent out like a postcard.

I'd be interested in participating.

interested

I can dig this thread.
When I studied abroad in England, I made an effort to write a good number of handwritten letters to friends back home. There was something about the connectedness that is inherent in this process. Whether it was writing while on the train or sitting at my desk, it was a lot of fun to actually write things down. It is a craft to write a good letter. (I am pretty sure I still have all the ones I received while in the UK, too).

And of course, it is a blast to receive things that are not bills or adverts in the mailbox.

Since I have been in state college, I have sent a few more post cards or care packages with CDs or other objects I saw fit to keep a connection with friends back in Illinois.

I'd be down with participating, too.

i would be interested, but i am terrible at sending things out. i do it eventually, but i am always late

I'd be down, I think.

Oh shit, this is the Tarck Jersey thing all over again.

In another interweb forum I used to participate in, somebody in Australia made a remote control model sailplane that could be collapsed down into a sturdy mailing case. The plane was sent all over Australia, flown at a bunch of different scenic locations by participants of the forum. and its logbook was updated with all the details. It eventually made it to the US, up and down the West Coast and into the Midwest. I think it got to Europe too, but not sure. In any event, there was a lot of "dude why the fuck haven't you sent this yet" type stuff in the sticky dedicated to the plane and its journey.

I think hardcore interweb forum participants are not so good with physical mail/packages. Coz no time, have to check JA thread / etc.

we should all exchange addresses....so that when we think about it, we have people to write to.

Oh shit mail thread x casing joint thread ultimate collabo!

MY DREAMS OF TARCKBURGLARY FINALLY COME TO FRUITION!

i could do this

Uhm, I'm not organizing anything. I was just thinking a casual address list that we could use to mail stuff we found interesting.

Kate, I ruined your thread :(

I'm really into sending/receiving mail! I tried to send out a bunch of my drawings to members on this forum awhile back but I didn't get many addresses :( I also flaked on sending Bold a full color burner (If you read this, sorry. If I have your address again, maybe I'll try to whip something up!)

So uhh, I really like receiving these small, graffiti-type handmade zines:

(I have a bunch more of these but I can't find them at the moment)

My girlfriend always writes me letters on neat envelopes she got while in Japan




(letter was in the packaging)

The best things are the letters. She writes in really nice cursive, but not posting cos mushy.
I don't have a camera at the moment so I had to use my phone. Sorry for the crappy pictures.

I'm just messing around, sorry.

I just got jessie's mailing address. pm me yours folks, and I will send you things!

I was a mailman for Halloween.

oh, and I am happy that I came in here and it wasn't just triple 6er making fun of me :)

can we send nudes?

i am about to move so i'm gonna hold out on the address for the moment

I love sending things through the mail! Call me old fashioned but I miss it!

I don't send anything other than bills and packages anymore because the people I care about are literally... close to home!!

Excited to see how this thread develops!

Yes.

I'm about to move as well, so I'll get in on this next month. Expect photo postcards and found paper stuff. Possibly cat hair.

Kate I got your letter!
I would like to come back to visit the bay area but am so far not sure how I'd be getting there.

She should have sent you a vacuum, Lindsey. : )

Getting mail is like getting invited to meetings.

At first you are all "OH SHIT SOMEONE CARES ABOUT MY THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS AND HOPES AND DREAMS"

Then after like the 800th one you are like "is it possible to suffocate myself with my phone without anyone noticing and trying to stop me?"

I never got it! PM me and I will send you something.

PM me your address, I will put you on my company's mailing list. We regularly produce a lovely, glossy 62 page catalog of essential travel supplies. YOURS FOR FREEEEE!!!!!

how's this sound. list of all tarckers interested. every month, the list is randomized into pairs so tarckers send something the other person. this wouldn't take too much and it' monthly so plenty of time to send the stuff. what do you think?

yea, dont make it secret-santa-y, that shit always gets fucked up cause of how flaky most people are.

I, like most people, really enjoy receiving mail. Mail is personal in its time-consumption - THEREFORE! I usually only mail things to close friends.
My then-best friend moved away from San Francisco two years ago to live life as a crusty, train-hopping punk who settled in the growing seasons to learn how to farm. His cellphone was unreliable; though it was one of those pay-as-you-go plans, he so rarely had money he was willing to put toward it. Computers were/are scare, only encountered every few weeks at a public library or the residence of a settled friend. Consequently we fell into a routine of letter writing - he would jot things down on a road where paper was plentiful, occasionally enclosing a couple trinkets or goofy comic strips he found. I'd write letters in reply and keep them until I got word of his settling for a season so I could mail them off at once.
We've since grown apart but goddamn am I all about the postal service now.

so basically, let's post our addresses in this thread?

OR SOMEWHERE ELSE? google spreadsheet?

I hate checking the mail just like I hate checking my email because it's never anything I wanna read. I dunno why, I think that maybe I'm just way too good at being incommunicado, or not establishing the routine of that sort of communication with people. Even with my phone I think I use it once every other day during the week. 99% of the time it's just "hey let's meet up xxxx place xxxx time". It usually doesn't bother me but clearly I don't keep in touch with people I don't see all the time very well and occasionally I'll accidentally ignore something important.

Have I already made a reply in this thread? I feel like I have! I find pleasure in writing my thoughts and all the fun and excitement I had during the day.

I like to read and hear about the daily lives of others no matter how mundane or boring it may seem. It is interesting to see life through somebody else's eyes. What they like, what they dislike, how they are feeling that day, and what they'll be feeling after grabbing that burrito from that new taco truck down the street.

This I think could be the start of something beautiful.

i can do a google spreadsheed tonight. iwegian08 at gmail dot com.

i think tarck name, real name and address would suffice.

alley_kate, I sent yours out today.

Woo-hoo!

tonight i'll put alll the names addresses into a google doc tonight. if possible i'll post the link tonight. i'll put something in the sig incase people miss out at first but wanna join in later.

Paper and mail are unnecessarily carbon intensive when you can use internets.

We all know tarck isn't backward's compatible.

but... I'm willing to try a new hack.

PLEASE GET ME IN ON THE GOOD. I mail out on-time, everytime, honey.

Where do I safely put my address?

i want someone to mail me something jus to make up for that jerk turpentine ruining my christmas

Tarck Mail Exhange

There's what i have so far. I'm open to suggestions for a name.

i would like to sign up but googledocs hates me apparently.

i'll make it so people can edit it
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkxRmoIZ7WdidGlwcG9CN2VVeGVUT013cldPQk9NRkE&hl=en