POSTCARDS

18 January 2021

I found a new activity for people looking for hobbies during the pandemic.

Check out More Postcards, Please on Instagram.

Whether you decide to send a postcard (or more than one postcard) or just scroll through what is already there, this is a nice time-waster  that will bring a lot of smiles.

Kristin Lee started the project in 2019 (before we had a pandemic!)

"I hoard postcards," Lee says. "I have postcards that people have written to me and I have so many postcards that are unwritten for me to send out or give out . . . I am a literal glutton for postcards, it's ridiculous."

She set up an Instagram account and a P.O. Box and sent herself a postcard to see if it would work.  It did.  People started sending post cards.  Lee posts every postcard she receives on Instagram and catalogues them, including photos of the art, whatever message is written, who it's from, and any other bits of information Lee can extrapolate from each card. Some postcards date back to the 1960s, some are brand-new, and others are completely handmade or DIY'd in some way.

There are some normal scenic postcards

Some are cute

and some are unusual or downright weird

She also posts many of the messages that she receives on the post cards.

But all are fascinating and it should make you want to run out and buy a postcard and send it off to More Postcards, Please!