A piece of mail finally made it to the intended location — almost 121 years to the day after someone put a stamp on it and sent it off. The Swansea Building Society, a mortgage loan business in ...

French writer and actress Anne Berest’s autobiographical novel “The Postcard” begins in 2003 in a Paris suburb, when her family receives a mysterious, anonymous postcard addressed to M. Bouveris. The ...

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

One month into the fourth annual Postcard Project, we have received 66 postcards representing 24 states and 11 countries. Ten of those postcards came from within the borders of Louisiana, including ...

It's been nearly 150 years since the postcard first came on the scene. The great-grandparent to tweets, profiles, feeds and other social media, postcards were once the most efficient and cheapest form ...

To most, sending postcards is an outmoded way of keeping in touch — what’s the point when you can just post on social media and rake in the likes from everyone you know (and their mother)? When I send ...

A postcard mailed from the United Nations headquarters in New York arrived at the post office in Ottawa, Illinois, in August. It would have been unremarkable, except it had been postmarked at 8 p.m. — ...

A postcard written by a crew member of the RMS Titanic just weeks before it sank is up for auction and could fetch $15,000. Jack Phillips, the vessel’s senior wireless operator, wrote the postcard in ...