Many postcards sold for a few cents (or even a penny) when they were first made, but they’re a lot more valuable now. The ...

Like other collectible ephemera, postcards that have been able to survive time can prove valuable. As a piece of history.

No colorful barns, no sailboats — Richmond was out, and new stamps might be two weeks out. Trying to mail my stash of 25 postcards by the deadline, I went to West Stockbridge. The obliging staffer ...

A. Postcards, especially old ones, can be very collectible. ... No folds, tears, bends, cancellation stamps that show through to impact the image on the front — nothing that detracts.

Detail of the postcard with a 1948 postmark featuring a one cent stamp that was delivered to the Collier home at 370 Sound Beach Ave., Old Greenwich, Conn., Sept. 12, 2014.

Neither rain nor heat nor gloom of night keeps postcard collectors from their colorful hobby, as many turned out for a show in Olmsted Township on Friday and Saturday.

A Halloween postcard mailed Oct. 29, 1920, was delivered 100 years later.

Swiss forensic geneticists analyzed DNA recovered from postage stamps dating back to World War I and solved a century-old paternity puzzle.

An ink-stamp from the postal service dates the postcard to Aug. 23, '03. Because of the stamp, Darby says he believes '03 is, in fact, 1903 — something he called "quite surreal." ...