We focus so often on the fronts of the postcards but from time to time, if the messages stand out, we’ll mention them.  Now we’re thinking you might enjoy a few minutes of random snooping through long-ago thoughts.   So we took the last stack of cards we entered but haven’t yet filed into their […]

Our good friend Thea was out and about recently, and came across a stack of these books in the discount section of a local shop.   She astutely observed:  “No, there was not a line fighting for them.”    We’re not certain any more where postcards rank on the list of collectible hobbies.  They used to be up […]

The good news:  “normal” mail is returning, slowly.  And we mean that in more ways than one.  A few countries with no outgoing service at all for months now allow surface but not air shipments.  Even more important, some major countries where our only air option was the wildly expensive “Speedpost” now allow air mail.  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]