When Becca Shapiro was waiting in line at the post office in Brooklyn last week, the man in front of her made an unusual request: he wanted to buy 1,000 postcard stamps. At first, Shapiro was confused ...

If you’re taking a vacation, why not take along a few pens, a sheet of 56-cent stamps and an address book and send some postcards during your travels? Postcards – like the ones your grandparents gave ...

Four years in, the Postcard Project still feels fresh. These tiny missives hold so much joy, hope and community — strangers becoming part of the same story. Each card of the 267 cards received is a ...

On Oct. 1, 1869, the Austrian postal service implemented an idea suggested by Emanuel Herrmann, the country's national economist. Until that time, letter writing was the normal channel for sharing ...