This virus is like the house guest who promises to stay for three days, then not only doesn’t show any signs of leaving but starts inviting relatives over too.  Most of us — and we include you, wherever you are — are learning to accommodate all the small and big changes, restrictions, and effects of […]

Ah, Hong Kong, our home.  Definitely, the past year, it’s not been boring here.  Not at all.  Especially not in the past week.   This will be a short entry.  We need to make a small adjustment to some cards on the site.  (If you’ve been following the news, you can guess which cards they […]

Сегодня вся планета Земля переживает очень сложный период в жизни. Многие лишились …..  don’t worry, the rest of this entry is in English and we are not going to sell you holiday timeshares anywhere.  This was a small excerpt of one of the daily attempts by various people to infiltrate the Blog with links for […]

Who’s immune from advertising?  Definitely not us, though our overall lack of visibility makes it look that way.  So it was time to do something about that, and we thought:  ad cards, easy to produce, easy to distribute.  Hah!   The first question:  what picture to use?  We’re in Hong Kong, and even if many […]

After wayyyyyyy too many false starts, we think we’re on
track now to rebuild and redesign the site. Brighter! Mobile
responsive! Google might find us! More modern!
___________________! (We’ll bet you can think of something else that needed doing.)

We won’t send out a general notice about this entry, because it’s not really of postcard interest, but if you stumble onto this at least you’ll know we are still alive. We know the lack of mobile responsiveness in the site’s structure works against us, and we really want to fix it. The overriding problem seems to be that we haven’t found anyone who (A) works in Hong Kong, and (B) can migrate all the information into a new format. We’ve written about this many times.

If you think our list of 103 themes is long, you can easily find competitors with many more.  We describe cards so that our own search engine will lead determined collectors to what they want.  But even so, here are some categories we wanted to try but that didn’t make the cut.   #6:  Aquariums.  Our goal […]

Yup, another entry about the website and not cards themselves.  Don’t worry, we will get back to form soon, but this is important and needs writing now.   We have never been under any illusion that we are a dominating force in postcard sales.  Our home page says “We’re not the largest … and never will […]

From the home page:  “We don’t just sell old postcards, we tell the stories”.  No pun intended, but there’s a back-story to this.  It used to say “We don’t just sell the cards …” but as we understood how important the home page is to search engines, we added “old”.  Guess how many entries for […]

It makes us happy to land a stash of cards we know will add value to the site. Sometimes old, sometimes new, sometimes borrowed (consignments), even sometimes blue. But we’ve stopped considering unsolicited offers from people we don’t know. We get many of these, usually well-meaning, like this: “My parents had this box of cards […]