Thanks! I have one for Austria too but forgot to take a pic of it and that Sweden one should get fixed but I always remember only when I am already busy with something 
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A similar thing happened to us — we’ve had to leave ours in Germany, when we moved to Portugal… but then we met a nice postcrosser in our town who owns a postcard store, and he offered us an old one he had. 
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I put the new cards on my office wall (unfortunately, none of my collegues joined postcrossing so far, but I’m working on it, I promise!) and after a year or so I put the old cards off and store them in a box.
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I just received one postcard. I put it on my whiteboard and wait for more in future 
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I’ve just bought a photo album to store cards from around the world.
I saw this album and had to buy it. The fact is has ‘Adventure is out there’ and the map drew my attention straight away. Also my favourite movie is Up where I first heard this quote. Fits just perfectly for postcards from the world. 
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I am surprised at people who keep postcards in photo albums. I have postcards of different shapes and I don’t think they will fit into a photo album, so they are stacked
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I keep the best of the latest on my fridge, and then I have a folder for everything that gets taken down (or not put up in the first place). I’m getting good inspiration here for future storage though 
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Wow thank you for showing it! It must take a long time to create such a “window” for postcard? Maybe I’ll ask a stupid question, do you cut it with a razor blade? 
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It doesn’t take long anymore…I draw outlines of the card lightly with the pencil, use paper cutter (metal blade) to make the edge cuts, but cut the rest with normal scissors.
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I store my Postcards into boxes and they are in my cupboard =) A long time I’d made a wall collage and picked it on the wall but I had seen that the cards would be dirty and in this fact I had begin to use boxes to store them.
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I have my postcards displayed all over my apartment. On the fridge, on the desk, on the shelves… since there is not enough space for all of them, I keep the majority in a box and change them from time to time. I also recently bought a vintage postcard album which is about 100 years old and I love it. Unfortunately, only relatively small cards fit in there. It seems like postcards were smaller in the past.
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Hello! I keep postcards in a notebook with A5 files. it’s very convenient to look and read I frame some postcards
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We have only 140 cards so far but are beginning to realise that we will be needing a sensible method of storing incoming cards rather than the card albums that we’re using at the moment. Some crossers have thousands of cards. Where do you keep them? Do you sort them by date or country or subject? Let’s hear your thoughts please.
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You might also want to check out this thread on postcard storage:
I store mine in photo boxes by country. I’m still trying to figure out the best way to display them.
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This is a new account but I’ve been saving postcards and mail for a while.
Since postcards are double sided, I end up sticking them in my journals (one is for mail only)
I put washi tape along one edge so I can flip them over to reread. That’s my favorite way.
Or sometimes I tuck them into paper, which is easy to do by cutting four small sideways cuts into paper to kind of frame them?
My friend, I know they put them in album that has plastic pockets.
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Right now, mine are sorted two ways:
- I have a bunch of different collections like Lantern Press, Inge Look, Covid Cards, etc. All cards which fit into the collections are stored together.
- All other cards are sorted by stamp/postmark / country.
All of my cards are in small manilla envelopes, then in plastic bins. I have been trying to brainstorm ways I want to display/store my cards. I have a few ideas, but due to covid and tight budgets, I am not able to put them in action yet…
- Make photo books that show both sides of the cards and either organize by country then collection, or separately. In other words, scan both sides of the cards, then upload them to a photo book website like Shutterfly or something similar.
- Photo Albums with plastic sleeve pages in various sizes. I already have some of these that my Greetings From (postallove) cards are in. This works, but will use a lot of sleeves if I want to keep the back of the card visible, but I’d still have to pull out the binder and page through if I wanted to see them all.
- Finally, I’ve been thinking about getting individual vinyl sleeves for each card and hang them one after the other, then hang the string of them from the ceiling. This will require a lot of sleeves and time to install.
I have nearly 1200 sent and received official cards and probably another 1000 or so received forum cards, so, This will be a big undertaking whichever I choose!
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Hello
I keep the majority in a box and change them from time to time.
But i need to find other ideas
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