Monday, January 14

2012 in mail, and a giveaway!

[crappy cell phone picture of some sent mail]
2012 was a record year for me in mail-sending terms. I know this because my OCD record-keeping lets me look back on my spreadsheet and see what I sent (and how much I spent on postage).

I also have piles and piles of excess stationery, and Dan and I are trying to start the new year off with less stuff and more space.

Let's play a game!

Guess how many pieces of mail I sent from January 1 to December 31 of 2012. Place your comment by January 21st at 12:01 AM Eastern time, and I'll give away two packets of assorted stationery -- lettersets, notecards, postcards, and the like from various brands and crafters -- to one person whose guess is the closest numerically (above or below the actual number is fine), and to one person whose name is drawn randomly. Be sure your comment somehow includes a way to contact you so I can get your address, if I don't already have it.

P.S. I'll give you a hint: I finished my first year of participating in MailArt365 in 2012.

10 comments:

Lisatella said...

I can't believe I guessed on Facebook and I have to guess again because you are SUSPENSE LOVER.


My new guess: 638.

Michelle said...

I'm going to take a wild guess of 1,173. Because reasons.

Samantha said...

WOW - these folks are high guessers... we are sort of pen pals and I know we exchanged at least 3 letters on both sides and I'm sure you have many other friends like that but in the thousands seems soooo high.....HOW ABOUT SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY SIX. BECAUSE I LIKE IT.

Anonymous said...

3217 -Simon

PostMuse said...

Oh ... I'm thinking you sent more than I did last year, and I average 40 pieces a week, so I'm going with 2,345.

Anonymous said...

My guess is 780 pieces of mail!
<3 Lauren Rust

Anonymous said...

I'm going to say 555, from the other guesses that may be way too low...

TheSnailMailer said...

I will guess 547. That sounds like a reasonable yet large number.

alegna101 said...

Hmmm... hard to choose. I'll guess 672.

I'm a random reader of your blog, so thus, you don't have my address. I read your blog via RSS, and have been following it for awhile (and I've visited your booth at Crafty Bastards one year).

If my guess is the lucky guess, I can be contacted via gmail at the username I gave in this comment.

Anonymous said...

I chose the highly unscientific, yet still mathematical approach: seven days in a week and 365 days in a year, so I multiplied 7 times 365, and voila! My guess is 2,555.

@azcaroh