FD loves the post office, and is sad to hear that Saturday deliveries may soon be a thing of the past. FD has just joined a new penpal project sponsored by our local card store, and today FD prepared 5 pieces of mail — and it’s still early. By tomorrow’s trip to the post office, there could be more!
A number of items in FD’s mail are post cards, both current cards and old cards. Like printed books, postcards may soon be obsolete (some might think they already are), but FD will still be collecting them. One topic that is popular among some post card collectors are images of post offices; others collect post cards with images of stamps. Yes, deltiologists are meta-collectors. Stamp collectors, on the other hand, don’t have the same opportunities to collect stamps with images of postcards. One good site discussing post card collecting is Life in A Postcard Mirror, a blog by one of the staff of the Curt Teich Postcard Archives (which includes a whole range of postcards, not just Curt Teich cards).
Many post card collectors are getting ready for National Post Card Week (May 2 -8), during which many will be sending out postcards they have designed. And they will be sending them out in the mail, at only 28 cents each. What a bargain!