Another rare card arrived today, with perhaps the lowest ID number I have ever seen. This card is only the 85th Postcrossing card ever sent from American Samoa, a US Territory in the South Pacific. Like Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, or Guam, this distant island enjoys (for now, until Trump inevitably fucks it up) the full services of the USPS. In other words, the card was conveyed 6,418 miles in 10 days for the bargain postcard stamp price of 56 cents. The card's sender, Tricia, has sent only 9 Postcrossing cards in total, yet is the #1 Postcrosser in American Samoa (indeed, she appears to be the only Postcrossing member in American Samoa). Such is the low pace of cards coming from that exotic destination. And so this wonderful card is today's Rare Card Alert.
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