Contribution photo: Postcard from Bali from March 23, 2024
I'm always happy when I receive a postcard because it always brings back memories of times when postcards covered a large part of our communication.
Correspondence cards, as they were initially called here, have been around since at least 1861 and are said to have originated in the USA. However, the possibility of sending open messages had already existed 100 years earlier in Paris and Vienna. With the introduction of the postage stamp in England around 1840, the conditions were in place to help the postcard become triumphant.
I stopped collecting postcards in the 1990s and even set up a website on which I digitized and stored the postcards I received. At some point, this website, like so many others, and its content disappeared into digital nirvana. Probably around the time when digital postcards became en vogue and I had taken out a lifelong postcard subscription - this company has also been around for a long time and I can't remember when I received the last digital postcard.
In the meantime, the good old postcards are still arriving and make me feel a bit nostalgic. Hence this blog post, with which I receive the front of the postcard I recently received.
In case a reader has become a little curious, the postcard was sent to me by Karin and Andreas, who, when they don't read my blog, still like to write postcards.
