PostCrossing: A Safe Addiction?

In order to best write this article I'm going to have to break the stylistic code of writing in plural and instead slide over into the first person.  It feels like I'm taking a chainsaw to the Mona Lisa, but I'm forging ahead.

For the past two months I've been exchanging postcards with complete and total strangers.  Perhaps it's because I've run out of friends to send cards to, but it's become an addiction.  Like any addiction, it's not without it's rituals.
Every day I check my mailbox.  Unfortunately, my mailbox is the kind where you really have to be at a weird angle to see inside it without unlocking it (a long and arduous process, trust me).  That's how I got a face full of spider webs yesterday....  so it's safe to say that PostCrossing comes with a price.
That's not to mention the cost of stamps.  I've spent over 16 dollars on stamps in the past two months.  If my poor math won't fail me, that's about 100 dollars a year.  Who has that kind of money?  Well, apparently I do.  And that's not even on the cost of postcards.  So we double it, and then we have 200 dollars a year.  Ack!
Let me just stress that none of this matters when you get a new postcard in the mail from a random user.  I've gotten cards from Austria, Belarus, Germany, and Turkey.  It's so satisfing to know that someone somewhere feels just the same way about stationary and postage that you do.
I suppose I could take up drug abuse, or perhaps gambling, but for the time being this seems like a safe enough addiction.

For more information, go to www.postcrossing.com.