You will recall, from our last thrilling episode, that we were discussing a wildly popular postcard theme we discussed in this space some years ago: the “How Come You Haven’t Written To Me?” cartoon. The expectation that when you wrote a card or letter you expected one back by return mail (an expectationContinue reading “HERE It Is”
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Waiting at the Mailbox
One of the nice things about doing a blog for years is the chance to go back to blogs which have appeared hereintofore and revisiting a topic with new information. So postcards with wardrobe mal…no, no, come back. We are ACTUALLY going to discuss one of the most popular of postcard sentiments: “Wen areContinue reading “Waiting at the Mailbox”
Back to You
This week we have considered the postcards which were published so that you could nag your friends to write to you as well as those cards which were printed to apologize for not having written. Because sending postcards came as naturally to those generations as texting and tweeting does to us, there was aContinue reading “Back to You”