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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 198712, member: 56&quot;]I sent vintage postcards instead of new this Christmas, and it seems to have been a successful gambit. I probably could have bought a dozen brand new, boxed cards (one pattern fits all) for less, but they wouldn&#039;t have the character these exude.&nbsp; Buying individual new cards at any local store would have cost considerably more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though the individual card price was low, caution was necessary to take into account the shipping cost.&nbsp; Some people wanted 10 or 20 times the cost of the card for shipping!</p><p><br /></p><p>Using some words to weed out the majority of new stuff, early in December there were upwards of 30,000 Christmas postcard listings with about 600 new listings daily. (I was paying attention.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I find I prefer the ones with messages written on the back and a stamp with clearly dated cancellation.&nbsp; One person told me it had been so long since they read any cursive script that they had trouble making out the message.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was my favorite, and it was inexpensive both for purchase and shipping, dated through the stamp cancellation to 1909:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]56730[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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