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New Postcards - May
Swap Coordinator:AndreaJ (contact)
Swap categories: Postcards 
Number of people in swap:19
Location:International
Type:Type 2: Flat mail
Last day to signup/drop:May 1, 2010
Date items must be sent by:May 15, 2010
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

I was doing this every month but will stop if there isn't enough interest.

Have you exhausted the stores in your area looking for interesting postcards? Why don't we exchange? For this swap, you'll send unused postcards in an envelope. Send 3 cards to 2 partners. (6 cards total)

This should be a fun swap. It promises to give each of us some fresh postcards to use for your next PC swap. Cards may be store bought or hand made. I'm thinking of artsy, funny, pretty, or sentimental cards. DON'T send the tourist type cards depicting a specific place: the ones that seem to say ''I live here" or "I visited here". Nothing wrong with those, but there are plenty of swaps like that around.

Here are some on-line sources for buying different kinds of postcards. Zazzle www.zazzle.com/postcards

VisionWorks www.changingworld.com/catalog/index.php

Syracuse Cultural Workers www.syracuseculturalworkers.com/

Another place to look is museums in your area. If you have other suggestions, please post them in the comments section.

Please don't flake!!!

Discussion

papercaper 03/27/2010 #

@AndreaJ Here's a few more. Feel free to add any of these URLs to your usual list of suspects. :)

  • The Film Store: http://www.thefilmstore.com/All_Postcards.html

Beautiful quality, and a really nice person offered to refund me half the postage when I overcalculated it. I didn't even realise or ask. I loved their honesty! One tip: Buy multiples of the ones you like because the ones I only bought singles of I can't bear to part with. :)

  • Art Unlimited: http://www.artunlimited.com/homepage.do

A spotlight on past children's illustrators atm. Dick Bruna et al. Awesome!

  • Gorey Details: http://goreydetails.net/search.php?category=all&cojoined=postcard

Edward Gorey and many more likeminded artists. A UK site with the option of seeing USD as well.

  • Pomegranate: http://pomegranate.stores.yahoo.net/postcards1.html

Great range of great artists.

  • The 2 Buds Vintage Postcard Shop: http://www.the2buds.com/suph2pc.htm

Every geeky thing a postcard enthusiast could want. Turn your photographic prints into postcards! Protect your favourite postcards in crystal clear plastic sleeves! Purchase Vintage state postcards! Rigid postcard mailers for multiple-postcard swaps on swap-bot! Organise!

papercaper 03/30/2010 #

Putting this on my watchlist to make room for another swap I wanna do, but I'll be baaack. :D

AndreaJ 04/10/2010 #

Thanks for the additional sources!

lindsay 04/19/2010 #

chroniclebooks.com is a great one too!

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