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Yes I know, and I don't like them either. It's quite unfair and I am actually playing an international title holder in a category 8 tourney of the ICCF. He is lost as simple as a counting-out rhyme. He continues while letting his clock running down. I don't understand this behaviour but I stopped long ago to be irritated as there's nothing I can do against. I only commiserate him and all those ho know they are lost but don't even show respect for their opponents and prefer exceeding the time limit instead of saying: thanks and congrats:-(
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I have been playing CC for over 45 years and have never run into this situation while using post cards. I’m sure it happens, but I’ve never personally experienced it. I’ve only run into this phenomenon since I started playing on the Internet a couple years ago. The current USCC Champion refuses to play e-mail/server chess because he feels people who do so are the dregs of the chess world. While I disagree with his blanket evaluation of server players I can also sympathize. I’ve met some very nice people playing on servers but also some of the worst. Personally I think is has to do with anonymity. It’s one thing when an opponent knows your real name and where you live even if it’s halfway across the world. It’s something else when you are anonymous. People say/do these things for the same reasons some people write obscenities on bathroom walls. Being anonymous brings out the base nature of some people.
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If I played CC by postcard, I don't think I'd be able to resist the temptation to send a card saying just, `J'adoube.' 
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Once - no email chess still existing - I played a Kirgisian living in the far east deep in the tundra where the post has been delivered by horsemen once every month. After 1 year we had a few moves behind us. After waiting half a year I got a letter in Kirgisian english saying that the postman has been murdered and that there will be no further delivery for the next months. So I offered him a draw hoping to end the game but I never got an answer.
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I believe you. I played in an ICCF event in 1969 where one on my opponents worked on a pipe line north of the Arctic circle and got mail once a month. One year and 10 moves later we agreed to a draw. In the same event one opponent was from Siberia. My first move only got so far when apparently they couldn’t translate the English the card was addressed in so it was returned. I hunted down an old Russian chessplayer here in town who showed me how to dual address it in Russian and I resent my move. 39 years later and I’m still waiting for his first move. I’m beginning to think he’s not replying.
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