World Postcard Day! | Virgil's Time With Postcrossing

I've been preparing for this day all year. Waiting in the wings for the moment the clock finally declares itself to be midnight on October 1st. Eagerly telling myself that I would not miss this the way I did last year. And finally, staying up allllll night until I could finally pull out a postcard and write:

Happy World Postcard Day!

While today is best referred to as the start of spooky season (and believe me, I am well aware and eager for that!) it's also World Postcard Day, most notably celebrated on the website Postcrossing. I'm a Postcrosser, joined March 2025, and now a proud participant in the holiday. Even if I have to wait to get the little badge on my profile!

Last month, I read a book on the history of USPS-issued stamps. Philatey is also an interest of mine, but my participation in Postcrossing came elsewhere. Namely, from the children's novel series Book Scavenger! The books are very dear to me; I recieved my copy of the first book at an event at my elementary school, annotated it, and later gave it and annotated copies of the other two books to my boyfriend for our first anniversary... which was in March 2025.

Book Scavenger lead to me looking into real-life things similar to the premise of the books, that being an online community where people hid books in locations hinted at through riddles or other puzzled, and then hunted down other books while competing against other people to solve the riddles to get the book first. Naturally that lead me to Bookcrossing, and then Postcrossing. The latter has become a sometimes hobby of mine thanks to its low entry cost, but I do also dabble in Bookcrossing (though it doesn't contain the riddle elements of Book Scavenger.

But that's enough of me. Here's a layout of the various things I'm sending today!

Four are for Postcrossing, while the rest are all personal corrispondance. I'm also sending some other letters with less attractive backs than the one Lion King-themed one I chose to include in this layout. The four cards I sent through Postcrossing are below.