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hellziggy ([personal profile] hellziggy) wrote2006-10-15 08:59 pm
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You've got mail!

I got this postcard in the mail yesterday:


Check out the postmark!!


Yay! I have cards from all seven continents now!!!! :)
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[identity profile] allegraconbrio.livejournal.com 2006-10-16 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
That is awesome. I did not know that mail was posted from Antarctica. Awesome!

[identity profile] caitirin.livejournal.com 2006-10-16 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
So. Cool.!

[identity profile] hellziggy.livejournal.com 2006-10-16 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Downright frigid, in fact! LOL!

[identity profile] hellziggy.livejournal.com 2006-10-16 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
Well the whole "Through rain & sleet & snow..." etc. doesn't really hold true. Their mail can only come in and out when the flights do. I believe "winter" is from March to August and there are no flights during that time. Then there are a couple in August bringing new people, and taking out some of the old. Then they construct the ice runway during September and flights resume again in October.
So, even though Andre actually wrote & mailed the postcard in Aug or Sept, it didn't actually leave Antarctica until early October, on the same plane he took to Christchurch, NZ!
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