Lots of Mail Redux!

"your friendly neighborhood postal employee"

That made me laugh :D

I am just a little confused. Do we send one item from each group for a total of 5 items to each of our 5 partners OR just 1 item to each of our 5 partners?

One item to each partner. The challenge is in finding an item for each category, not sticking to one category and sending each partner one item from that category.

For example, a bus ticket is a great choice for the "something travel related," but if you send all five of your partners bus tickets, you haven't gotten into the spirit of the swap. Of course, no one will know but you, so you could do that, but it is more fun to find one item for each category :-)

sounds super fun! count me in! hey, i AM a friendly neighborhood postal employee! we're not all meanies you know! (^_^)/

I;d love to join, if you host one in August-ish time let me know!

this sounds like a lot of fun. it will be interesting to see which of each category i receive from my partners. i would love to find out how random it ends up being or if one person ends up with 4 or 5 of the same category.

In previous incarnations of this swap (I did all 5 the last time), I've ended up with an average of 3 categories fulfilled. Once I got all the same category... I think it was "purple" and since that was listed as my favorite color in my profile, that's what I got :-) It is fun to see how many categories you get. At least a few people end up with all 5... but back then, the swap would garner about 60-100 participants and was always in the top 10.

I'm too busy this summer to join any swaps, but my neighborhood postal employees are THE BEST! ;>)

I mailed my packages out to my partners today.

Something earthy - tea Something yellow - lip balm Something cool - Cooling leg gel Something funny - a card Something travel related - postcard

My items are;

• Something funny... a goofy body cream from a company called Scrub Your Butt
• Something travel.... a small button pin made from a map
• Something yellow.... pretty yellow flower hairpin
• Something cool... snow images
• Something earthy... old-fashion sew-on patch from Okefenokee Swamp

I always have such fun with these swaps. Hoping others will post their sends here, too.

This is my first swap that doesn't involve only postcards :) I have sent: a calico bag, a sunflower bookmark, some stickers, a face mask and some notepaper and a bookmark. Hope everyone likes what they get!

I just mailed my packages this morning. This swap was a lot of fun!! Thank you PostMuse!

My items are:

Something yellow - a pack of notecards Something travel related - a koozie I picked up on my last trip home with a highway emblem Something earthy - peanut butter packs Something funny - a pack of napkins Something cool - a change purse made out of old foil juice containers

Mine were: Something yellow -- a pretty yellow handkerchief Something travel-related -- come cards with cars and planes on them Something earthy -- a packet of Daisy seeds (my favorite flower) Something funny -- a kitty bookmark Something cool -- a couple of buttons (the pin kind) with Betty Boop on them

I'm a little nervous, it being my first swap...but I think I did ok :)

This swap was a bigger challenge than I thought it would be. Trying to find things that my partner's would like that fit the catagory AND only took 1 stamp....Well I didn't quite so good with the 1 stamp challenge. This was fun though! I sent:

       * A  Handmade note card in yellow colors 
       * A funny card
       * A lavender sachet & handmade notecard with a 
         pressed flower from my garden
       * Icy Breeze breath mints and snowflake stickers
       * Travel/vacation scrapbooking stickers

So far, I've received:

Something funny ... a flowchart funny
Something yellow ... stickers and a note paper
Something travel related ... travel ephemera

I sent:

travel-related- a postcard, coin, and seashells from Cuba Yellow- burt bees soaps and a handmade banana card Earthy- a handmade hemp necklace with a fimo bead that looks like the earth Funny- a bunch of random notes and scraps of paper and photos that I found around campus Cool- a pack of cooling peppermint gum