今天看到PC论坛”封锁中国地址“话题下一位玩家的回复，甚为精彩，与诸位分享。
论坛链接：⚠️ Temporary mail suspension to China - Postcrossing / General Topics - Postcrossing Community
作者主页：User maroussia, from China (postcrossing.com)
根据作者主页介绍，这是一位在中国已居住40余年的法国老太太。她对这件事情的看法很有借鉴意义。英文原文如下：
（大咕做的翻译在下面，但翻译过后的文章不一定能很好地反映作者的观点和态度，仅供参考）
If one looks at things in a longer view and does not focus on one’s temporary frustration about one’s postcards not arriving within two weeks, one will remember that at various times in the last, say, fifteen years, there were countries from/to which mail was slowed down or totally disrupted for various lengths of time. This may have been due to postal workers’ strikes, other sectors’ strikes, wars, disturbances in some countries or plain bad functioning of a country’s postal system.
Since the pandemic began, I have noticed that some postcards were taking longer, sometimes much longer than earlier (up to six months between Canada and China all through 2021). In all countries of the world, the postal system was under a big stress, with many employees sick or locked down, some countries stopping altogether to keep international mail going on. In the past year or so, it has become even worse and please, do not think that the problem is totally linked with China. The lockdowns of the past months in China have surely been disruptive and a backlog of undelivered mail has accumulated, BUT not only in China, also in foreign airports and sorting centres when the mail could not be forwarded towards China due to the lack of sufficient flights (a problem that still exists). Then in some countries the postal system is not back to normal yet and quite a few of my correspondents in the USA, the Netherlands and the UK have mentioned to me that there WERE local problems.
Now they seem everywhere to have started to work on all that neglected mail. Lately I have received letters and postcards that had been travelling for between 18 to two months.
I surely love it when the postcards travel in a timely way, but considering all the current world’s problems, one should understand that we are in a difficult time for communicating via snail mail. If we ARE motivated enough and try to be patient, normalcy will definitely return slowly. Let us try to learn that one cannot always get what one wishes INSTANTLY…
I feel that the decision taken by postcrossing admin. to start again with giving addresses in China slowly and see what happens was the wisest possible. The situation was and is exceptional, and one must experiment with ways to solve it that cause the least disruptions to the general system. Several members have done a lot of thinking and suggested more or less (un)practical solutions, I appreciated their efforts to contribute, but I say unpractical because they were suggesting some discriminations based on not so solid reasons
Which leads me to say how shocked I was reading that some members did not want to send cards to China (or to Russia, for different but equally inacceptable reasons) and to thus introduce a distinction between the “quality” of countries. It is bad enough that these distinctions are rampant in the world of politics and sometimes in the wider world, but I feel we should strive to keep postcrossing as a space of willingness to understand whom and what is different from us, a space where one can meet fellow human beings whoever they are without aggressivity… That involves growing up from petty hatreds and a tendency to throw up tantrums whenever things do not go as we would wish them to go…
Sorry I have been once again very long-winded.I will only add that I have gone inactive for a while (though I will continue to send cards) due to a possibility of having to move suddenly, which, considering the current travelling times would cause a lot of cards to get lost, but this will also prevent persons unwilling to send cards to slow countries to get stressed (chuckle, I have no angry feelings towards. these). Just a bad sense of humour…
翻译：
如果一个人从长远的角度看待事情，不因明信片在两周内未送达而暂时沮丧，那么他会回想起在过去的不同时期，比如说，十五年（PC成立至今已有15年+的时间），有一些国家的邮件在不同的时间段内被放慢或完全中断。这可能是由于邮政工人罢工、其他部门罢工、战争、一些国家的骚乱或一个国家邮政系统运行不良所致。
自从大流行开始以来，我注意到一些明信片寄递花费的时间更长，有时比之前长得多（2021加拿大和中国之间长达六个月）。在世界所有国家，邮政系统都面临着巨大的压力，许多员工生病或被锁闭，一些国家甚至停止了国际邮件的发送。在过去的一年左右，情况变得更糟，请不要认为这个问题完全与中国有关。中国过去几个月的封锁无疑是破坏性的，积压了大量未送达邮件。但不仅在中国，而且在外国机场和分拣中心，由于缺乏足够的航班，邮件无法转发到中国（这个问题仍然存在）。然后，在一些国家，邮政系统还没有恢复正常，我在美国、荷兰和英国的一些朋友向我提到，当地存在问题。
现在，他们似乎已经开始处理所有被忽视的邮件。最近，我收到了旅行了18（是18天吗？大咕看不懂是什么意思，但原文如此）到两个月的信件和明信片。
我当然喜欢明信片及时寄达，但考虑到当今世界的所有问题，人们应该明白，我们现在正处于通过蜗牛邮件沟通的困难时期。如果我们有足够的动力并努力保持耐心，正常状态肯定会慢慢恢复。让我们努力学习，一个人不可能总是立即得到自己想要的…
我觉得这是POSTCROSSING管理人员做出的决定。再次开始缓慢地发放中国地址，看看会发生什么，这是最明智的做法。这种情况过去和现在都是异常的，我们必须尝试解决这种情况的方法，以尽量减少对整个系统的干扰。一些成员做了很多思考，提出了或多或少（不）实用的解决方案，我赞赏他们作出的努力，但我说不实用，因为他们提出了一些基于不太坚实的理由的歧视。
我很震惊地看到，一些成员不想向中国（或俄罗斯，因为不同但同样不可接受的原因）发送明信片，从而对国家的“质量”进行区分。这些区别在zhengzhi世界，有时在更广泛的世界里肆虐已经够糟糕的了，但我觉得我们应该努力保持跨越后的空间，让它成为一个愿意了解谁和什么与我们不同的空间，在这个空间里，一个人可以与其他人见面，无论他们是谁，都没有侵略性……这涉及到从小的仇恨中成长起来，以及当事情不如我们所希望的那样发展时，人们往往会发脾气…
对不起，我又一次唠叨了很久。
我只想补充一点，我已经有一段时间没有活动了（尽管我会继续发送卡片），因为可能会突然移动，考虑到当前的旅行时间，这会导致很多卡片丢失，但这也会防止那些不愿意将卡片发送到速度慢的国家的人感到压力（哈哈哈，我对这些没有愤怒的感觉）。只是缺乏幽默感…
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这篇小文是大咕最近一段时间在这个话题下看到分析最客观、观点最中立、论据最充分的文字了。
PC封锁中国地址这个事情已经发酵了三四个月，各色人等都在论坛里充分的表达。在这其中，可以说，大部分观点都是非常偏激的。某些外国人利用此问题一味地指责中国，并上升到zhengzhi和yishixingtai的角度，挑起对立情绪，弄得鸡犬不宁；而某些打着”爱国“旗号的中国人也在利用这个争端展示自己”高超“的爱国技巧，非要将这个事情与俄乌战争相提并论，彰显自己从观察者网学到的“大国风范”，殊不知已变成”低级红，高级黑“。在火药味很浓的论坛中，能看到这样一篇文章，真是让大咕洗洗眼，感受思辨和理性的力量。
大咕不对此文做更深入的探讨，各人有各人的看法。文章观点仅供参考，解释权归原作者。
