Postcrossing Meetup at the McKinney, Texas FALL Postcard Show Meetup

Name: Postcrossing Meetup at the McKinney, Texas FALL Postcard Show Meetup
Start: 2025-10-11T12:00:00-05:00
Location: Holiday Inn & Suites McKinney - N. Allen

Schedule

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025 at 12:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Holiday Inn & Suites McKinney - N. Allen | Mckinney, TX

CITY/REGION: McKinney, Texas USA
MEETUP PLACE: Holiday Inn & Suites McKinney-N. Allen
DATE: Saturday, October 11th, 2025
TIME: 12 PM
Admission: $5
MEETUP PLAN: Join us again in McKinney, TX for Postcrossing and an opportunity to buy some vintage postcards! This meetup will take place at the Greater Dallas (McKinney) Postcard, Photo, and Paper Show.
Please make sure to read the Meetup Guidelines before signing up for a meetup.
Please at some point RSVP to the meetup using this form, but feel free to wait with your RSVP until we have posted the meetup card design (as there is a question asking how many cards you’d like to reserve).
NOTE- This meetup will take place at the Courthouse Square Antique Postcards Greater Dallas (McKinney) Postcard, Photo, and Paper Show. The postcard show is two days long, but out meetup will take place on Saturday, October 11th (the second day of the show). Admission to the postcard show is $5. During the meetup, we will have our own tables at the show for Postcrossing and socializing!
Hotel Direct Phone: 469.952.2044
take a look the Hotel and directions and more:
https://www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/mckinney/mcktx/hoteldetail
Read more about the postcard show here- Courthouse Square Antique Postcards:Postcard Show Schedule
Special meetup postcards will be available for everyone to sign! We will post a reply to this forum once we have designed the card(s)! Cards will be available for purchase at 25 cents each OR 3 cards in exchange for 1 Forever stamp. If you’d like to prepay for your card(s), feel free to venmo me at @Julia-DeWitt-9 and I will PM you receipt of your purchase. Cash or payment using Forever stamps can of course be taken the day of the meetup.
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What should I bring? (not mandatory, just some suggestions):
-Username “signature” stamp (like this one on Etsy! )
-Pens, markers, stickers, washi tape, decorative stamps etc. (anything you like to write or decorate cards with)
-list of addresses to send too.
-Postage stamps (so we can mail as many cards as we can!)
-Postcards to trade/swap
-Postcards you would like to send out at this meetup
-Postcards you want to show off
-A smartphone/iPad/tablet for connecting to postcrossing.com
Meetup plan/agenda:
-signing/stamping of cards
-shopping at postcard venders
-raffles! (ex. maxi-card sets)
-postcard exchanges/swaps
The ultimate goal of this meetup is to share our collective joy of Postcrossing, to make good, positive, and wholesome connections with another human beings, and to spread that positivity and happiness to our fellow Postcrossers across the globe!
-Courtney, Heidi, & Julia (The Stampin’ Squad)
Event organizers: @Courtneybblooms @heidiblooms @peachesandlola, and
Jim Taylor with Courthouse Square Antique Postcards