“The Postcard,” a novel by the French author Anne Berest, opens on a snowy morning in a Parisian suburb: “My mother lit her first lung-charring cigarette of the morning, the one she enjoyed most, and ...

It's been nearly 150 years since the postcard first came on the scene. The great-grandparent to tweets, profiles, feeds and other social media, postcards were once the most efficient and cheapest form ...

A piece of mail finally made it to the intended location — almost 121 years to the day after someone put a stamp on it and sent it off. The Swansea Building Society, a mortgage loan business in ...

A stranger named Bob wrote 26 words on a postcard in 1953. Eighty years later, they are still making the newsroom swoon.

Eight weeks into the 2026 Postcard Project, Jan Risher's mailbox is telling stories from Grand Coteau to Ireland — including one handmade by a reader who sketched Cathedral Rock himself. Ten states ...

When Anne Berest received a mysterious postcard, it sent her on a quest to learn more about her Jewish family members who had died in the Holocaust. French author Anne Berest didn’t know much about ...

The front of the postcard features a print of The Challenge (1844) by English artist Edwin Henry Landseer. Henry Darby More than a century ago, someone named Ewart placed a postcard in the mail. On ...

Alan Ball sent the postcard to his family during the summer of 1953. Last week, it arrived at his home in Idaho. By Hannah Ziegler In 1953, during his first trip away from his Illinois home, Alan Ball ...