I started /r/snackexchange and (the half-failed) /r/mysterybox back on reddit for that purpose. The problem with any sort of physical cultural exchange is that postage costs and shitty/corrupt...
I started /r/snackexchange and (the half-failed) /r/mysterybox back on reddit for that purpose. The problem with any sort of physical cultural exchange is that postage costs and shitty/corrupt postal systems exclude most of the interesting countries. I don't think we've ever had an African exchanger or most countries in Asia. Latin American, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern countries are wildly underrepresented while most exchangers are from North America or Western Europe. It cost me $80 when I was stationed in Japan to send a box to Norway, and while that was no big deal to either of us it's an average week's wage in some places.
Limiting it to postcards or small envelopes would help with that but unfortunately reality lag behinds the internet in internationalism.
I started /r/snackexchange and (the half-failed) /r/mysterybox back on reddit for that purpose. The problem with any sort of physical cultural exchange is that postage costs and shitty/corrupt postal systems exclude most of the interesting countries. I don't think we've ever had an African exchanger or most countries in Asia. Latin American, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern countries are wildly underrepresented while most exchangers are from North America or Western Europe. It cost me $80 when I was stationed in Japan to send a box to Norway, and while that was no big deal to either of us it's an average week's wage in some places.
Limiting it to postcards or small envelopes would help with that but unfortunately reality lag behinds the internet in internationalism.