Friends Near and Afar, Letters we Share and Cherish.
We haven't discussed this as far as i know, and it is an interesting question.
The letters we wrote, the responses we got, all of those are significant for people who enjoy corresponding with pen pal friends.
And then, sometimes things happen. Your friend decides to leave, for various reasons. A common one being to reduce 'distractions', being busy and needing to fully focus in something important.
...by our reddit user ahhhhhhhchhoooooo in this topic.
Puzzle sets could be by region/theme, a mix of popular stamps, or customized to your personal SLOWLY stamp collection!
Avatars of your penpals could also appear next to the stamps you received from them.
And it is a good idea, as we have many nice stamp designs.
And as previously, they remain a one sided document intended to solely protect the company and award it any rights they seem fit to claim.
I think it is interesting to read them. It is a long, legalese, mind boggling read, but a careful analysis can give you insights on important points. You can see the current, latest version (revised as of Sept 13, 2024) HERE.
And I did read it briefly, and noticed some worthy points.
It comes down to lost revenue – from the sale of the multitude of regional commemoratives (free for a limited time in some location) and Location stamps (always free in that location).
Both regional commemoratives and location stamps are available to people all over the globe – via the Time Machine and World Explorer 'sales counters'. Each try at the random sale mechanism costs the user 25 Coins, which at my local currency works out exactly to 50 cents CAD or half a Canadian Dollar.
Yesterday a new topic was created on our subReddit, which is shown in the image above. The theme of the topic is how is the current pen pal experience in SLOWLY app – and we have various other commentary in the sub recently about it.
It got views and comments, including an excellent one by ZT1604, which I supported, agreeing with all they wrote. Russian Cousin suggested it could be a good Guest Author post here, I asked for permission, which was granted. So, here it is. 🙂 Thank you, ZT!
...I discovered that Kevin's semi-secret blog is once again missing. The redirect link from StartupSlowly.com now goes to Kevin's Medium posts, and sadly that is very out of date. The latest post there is dated Dec 15 2021, so almost 3 years ago now. 🙄😕
I think a lot of our readers here are probably NOT familiar with Kevin's Mandarin language only startupslowly blog project.
Dear friends, myself and Prince Bajaja have been working on a Better, Improved Slowly Stamps Comparison Tool.
This one is a GUI tool, running a PowerShell script, and can be run in any laptop or PC running Windows, or even Mac or Linux machines if the user installs PowerShell for them.
And it was included in our November new releases post, although we did not know yet which countries it would appear in.
This stamp is instantly identifiable as a 'multi-country' issue, as it does not have the usual two letter Country Code in it. Like other similar issues, we are left to speculate where it will appear...
I received some data from a friend, did a bit of editing to my shared Slowly Stamps API Tracking spreadsheet. Added a new worksheet to it, which tracks the total number of stamps issued, by Country Code as included in the SLOWLY API.
Got some interesting stats; one of them being that the UK currently has the largest number of all (GB, 32 issued), followed by some Asian countries which we had spoken about as receiving a lot of attention... 🙄😉
I have written in the past on how we can use the outstanding DeepL translation software. The post first appeared on Reddit, and is currently one of the most viewed pages in my slowly and pen pals related blog.
Today I would like to write and suggest some other tools we can look at, consider and use if desired.