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Numbers
We could hit you with statistics like regression analyses and chi squares, or we can invite you to sit back and see the direction this site has taken over its 16 years. Guess what we chose … You already know (our) GPS is divided into geographic and theme categories. It’s not always […]
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Creative China
Nobody could ever say China does things by halves. That includes postcard folios issued by China Philatelic or any of their subsidiaries. Someday someone will write the definitive book … and we wish it could be us, but for now, this Blog entry will have to do. Prepare to be amused. Here’s how we […]
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Paul
Not so long ago, after we added “https” to help boost web visibility, we (figuratively) sat back and waited for orders to flood in. Ha! After 16 years of running the site, we’ve seen highs and lows: server crashes, structural changes, redesigns, loss of webmasters, mail disruptions. You name it, it’s happened. Then Paul […]
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Being seen
Even though any of our new Blog entries brings an onslaught of mostly Russian spam about casinos, porn, and drugs into the Comments for Moderation area — endemic to the WordPress structure — we just keep pushing this river uphill. These “bots” scan for new entries and start their attack on us — not you […]
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https
OK, school is open now. If you already know what “https” means, you can skip ahead … or, just keep reading and be grateful it’s not happening to you. If you’re on the internet, look near the top of your screen, and you’ll see the address (URL) of whatever site you’re visiting. Most likely […]
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Reproductions
Love them? Hate them? Couldn’t care? In our experience, not a lot of folks fall into that first category. We suppose different people might define reproduction postcards in different ways, but here we’re talking about old cards whose photos have been made into new ones, like the example from Philippines we’ve used to illustrate […]
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U.S. Presidents, The Lot of Them
Let’s open by acknowledging that a majority of our Blog readers are neither American nor live in the U.S. Yet still, we have that theme category because … well, just because. Given that postcards didn’t go into circulation much before the late 1800s, that meant about half of all presidents had come and gone […]
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No-No’s
Decades ago, a pop song’s lyrics went “It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to …” Well, it’s our website and we’ll post what we want to — for all sorts of reasons, good and bad. Sometimes, we don’t want to. Sometimes, we can’t. This is meant, generally, to be a family-friendly […]
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Hospitals
What could be more appropriate during these trying times than a few words about hospital postcards. The category is so important, we actually have two: Hospitals, and Asylum/Sanitarium. Don’t get bored yet! No, a hospital isn’t just a hospital. Browse through the cards and you’ll see several different types: private, university, state, military, specialised […]
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Tatiana
Long-time readers know that we give special shout-outs once in awhile about friends who’ve made significant contributions to the site, or to our knowledge of postcards in general. This time, we’re writing about Tatiana in Romania, someone we’ve never met in person, but come to know well after years of correspondence and postcards and recipes […]