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Messages
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 […]
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Something for Everyone
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 […]
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Jumping through hoops: Mailing cards
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. […]
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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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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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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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Of course … the virus
We thought — like SARS — that COVID-19 would have gone away by now. Clearly not. If you’re thinking “what does this have to do with postcards?”, we’ll tell you. We don’t know where all our readers live. You probably already know, though, that we’re based in Hong Kong. Compared to […]
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Manga ( 漫画 )
If you don’t know about Manga, our best advice: get your cup of coffee and head immediately to the Wikipedia entry that explains everything yet nothing. The thing is, if you’re Japanese or Chinese or Korean you probably know all this anyway. If not, of course you might already be a fan. Or, you could […]
