Who Killed the Post Card Craze?

Guilty of Killing The Postcard Craze.

What postcard craze, the sharp reader ponders?

Not yet a National Holiday, the Postcard Craze peeks at the summit in 1906. Helped along by technology (photography and printing opened Art for those with cash for stamps). Governments seeing positive cash flow with the issue of Post Card and Personal Mailing card Acts helped with the boon time. Acting as sentinel while supporting art and History, The stamp.

Under the Guidance of Benjamin Franklin wise vision as the first Postmaster in the U.S Stamps and our Mail System became a way to move forward from the past.

Fast forward to the 1900’s , German printers blaze a trail for Postcards to hit Critical Mass. Did you know the number of US post offices saw it’s highest number, EVER, at 76.945 Offices. (FYI USPS reports 26,927 post offices, or about the same as in the year of 1868!)

Joyce Clyde Halll, a salesman was a vision salesmen. He saw the chance to make mail more discreet and more of Social Custom. By 1915, with his Brother were marketing Christmas and Valentine day cards,, by HalL Bros. As their business grew by leaps and bounds they ran out of tissue paper one fateful day in 1917. The birth of “Wrapping Paper” was a welcome addition the HallMark Paper Fam,ily.

Still a privately owned company today with 800 employees. The Postcard Craze had it’s day, in 1906.