PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS! You should be alert during the next few days. Do not open any message with an attachment entitled *POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK*, regardless ...

Once a simple way to send messages, postcards have evolved into collectible objects. What makes them worth collecting?

When Karen Martin started collecting postcards, her mother was surprised that anyone would consider these cards — which sold for a penny or two in their heyday — worth saving, much less studying and ...

A new exhibition at Berlin's Museum for Communication celebrates the 150-year history of postcards. Here's how Germans enthusiastically adopted the medium to share important news — and the latest ...

You know the situation. You’re away on vacation and you think “why don’t I send a postcard?” You find a suitably tacky specimen and then try to track down a stamp, discovering that you have to visit ...

When Philadelphian John P. Charlton received the first copyright for a postcard in 1861–a small card mailed without an envelope that he sold to the H.L. Lipman company–he would have been surprised to ...

Like postcards, no two members of the Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York City are quite the same. Credit...Photographs by Vincent Tullo for The New York Times Supported by By Annie Correal Marilyn ...

Himanshu Agrawal has more than 1,200 postcards from over 140 countries in his collection. He even has some from Antarctica. “Exchanging postcards has helped me a lot to smile during my lowest days and ...

Here it is already August and I have received only one postcard this summer. It was sent to me by a European friend who was travelling in Mongolia (as far as I could deduce from the postage stamp) and ...