Whenever I'm on trip or at a museum, I look for postcards to take home: not the standard color tourist specimen, but the black-and-white beauties or the quirky, funny ones.
By Elisabeth Biondi January 13 , 2011Whenever I'm on trip or at a museum, I look for postcards to take home: not the standard color tourist specimen, but the black-and-white beauties or the quirky, funny ones.
Another great way to keep a record of your postcard collection is to take digital images and post them into an online collection for all to see.
From the moment your guest arrives, you can make them feel comfortable and surprise them with a thoughtful "welcome pack" of toiletry essentials they may need for the weekend and even a few postcards for them to take home or send while they are staying.
Students are not only escorted to postcard-ready spots, but are taught how to take postcard-perfect shots.
This displaced aggression popped up every 50 feet or so with every animal wrangler or postcard seller who refused to take no for an answer.
Hamsun knew that people regarded him as a traitor — he was shunned when he asked a boy to take a postcard to the mailbox.
But when he allows himself to take in the postcard vistas, Messner proves that he's not incapable of satisfying the armchair explorer.
Postcards are a good, small trinket to take back (useful, too).
(*Note: It is a crime to take a letter, package, postcard, or other item of mail from a Post Office, a mailbox of any kind, or from a postal carrier before the mail has been delivered, if you intend to prevent the mail from being delivered, pry into it, embezzle money, or destroy the mail).
