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Arja Koskela, 48 y.o. from Virrat, Finland. She was the sender of the card registered as 3 million! She was introduced to the Postcrossing world by her sister and her niece. Now she agrees Postcrossing is a fantastic hobby!

How did you come across Postcrossing? What got you hooked?

First my sister Sirpa and her daughter Elisa read about Postcrossing and of course they felt excited about that. They told me how fantastic hobby Postcrossing is and I belived them…Sirpa is also my twin sister, so we often do same things… :) I agree with Sirpa and Elisa, Postcrossing is a fantastic hobby!!

Do you have any other interesting hobbies?

Oh, the books are near my heart! And handicrats of course!! I have made tiffanyworks and glass-meltingworks nearly ten years. Our family has an old house, so gardening belongs to my life and it’s a great hobby. When I have time, I walk in the near forest!!

Show us your mailbox, your mailman/mailwoman, your postoffice or the place where you post or keep your postcards!

Here is my mailbox near our house…True we have an awful roadside and nowadays it isn’t in a right place! :(

arjakos mailbox

In my hometown there isn’t a postoffice anymore. So our mailbox, where I put my postcards, is near the shopping mall.

arjakos mailbox

I keep by my cards in a folder, so it’s easy to watch them.

Show and tell us about your favorite received postcard to date, and what makes it special

Of course my favorite postcard is the first one… It was something special!! The card was from Oxford, England. I always remember that feeling when I found it in my mailbox.

arjakos favourite postcard

7 comments so far

gabis, Germany

Lovely card, your first one. Congratulate on sending THE card!

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Twoey, Canada

Congratulations on sending the legendary card! Good work and keep postcrossing

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Mundoo, Australia

Good profile. I like seeing how ordinary our mail boxes are and yet so different in other countries.

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dandilion, Netherlands

Again a great article about a dear postcrosser!
Did you ever receive a congrats card from me? It was signed by some other Dutch postcrossers too.

greets, dandilion

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bradpete, Philippines

She is great!

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ammy, Singapore

That is so cool - Arja & Sirpa are twins!!! So Sirpa is on Postcrossing too? I think Sirpa's name sounds familiar incidentally; I may have sent/received a card from her on one of my account before.

What are those small circle things on the "Magdalen College" postcard, by the way?

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arjakos, Finland

Thanks to everyone! I have to say it was really amazing when I sent that famous card....I have got some many lovely cards after that, so beautiful messages... First I tried to answered to everyone but it was too big work...Sorry! = (

Yes, my twinsister Sirpa is also a postcrosser! = )

Those small circles are from a hole-punch, the card was too big to plasticpocket, so I had to punch holes in card = ( , it´s a little beauty mistake, I think!

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