How do you store or display your postcards?

[Ludek]

I store my cards in shoeboxes… And some are always on our fridge in little themed displays like this:

[Fabia0912]

Love some of those ideas
I store my cards on the wall with adhersive gum, on a canvas in my office (mostly tourist cards), in Postcard Albums (series cards and recipe cards), a normal A5 binder for the shaped ones and in 2-3 boxes unsorted before i decide what to do with them
my main problem is that i don’t have any option where I can 1. look at the front and back and 2. will look at the cards often. maybe i should just pin some cards front and some cards back on the canvas …

[Wynnie]

How did you come by all the cool international stamps?

[JuliaDax137]

140 cards?! Wow! Did you mean 14 or do you legit have that many? Because that’s crazy!!

[JuliaDax137]

It almost looks like they were gently peeled from the postcards they arrived on, but I might be wrong. I’m probably wrong, because that sounds super hard!

[kristalz]

Well now it’s 153 haha. And that’s nothin. My friend has over 1,000!!

[holhart]

Last night I took all the old notes and things off my bulletin board—and turned it into a postcard gallery! I’m very pleased.

[echoGrace]

The case is that I think I have more than 3,000 postcards. I prefer to keep them all in albums and hope them fit in perfectly in the album, off course I don’t like them falling out when I look through. Here comes the problems.

After I tried lots of ways to classify my collection, now I decided to put them all in one album just according to the date I receive them. But the cards are not always a standard size, which makes it harder to work this way.

Second, I upload all my incomings to keep better track of them and to avoid duplicates. How do you track your online collection to your real album to make sure you can find them easily when you want?

Or how do you store your collection and how does it work?

[Superchick3]

I actually put them on my walls

[echoGrace]

Well that’s really a great way to exhibit but it becomes impossible while I have such a big collection. That’s why I the second question comes up when I want to find them easily and exhibit them somewhere.

[yudi]

How do you store or display your postcards?

In boxes, albums, up on the wall, or maybe in the corkboard in your office… Show us how you store or display the postcards you receive!

Digital storage for blank postcards

How do you store postcards that you use to send to other postcrossers? Mine are currently ordered by theme (art, architecture, tourist, etc) in envelopes and then in a box. This doesn’t quite work for me because I always dread having to go through each envelope to choose the right postcard. I’d like to create some kind of digital storage for my collection where I scan the images. I think this would make choosing postcards much easier and quicker. I have seen that some users have blogs which ar…

How do you organise your postcrossing things?

so i don’t think there is a topic like this yet? i’m very curious how everyone is keeping and organising their card things. i know some of you are able to fit everything you need into one shoebox, some of you have a lot more boxes, like me. i wanna see it all! so let me start by showing you where, what and how i organise my postcrossing related things. firstly, everything i need is here: [20210127_095201] at the bottom you can see my scanner and in the black and white box are all my receiv…

[Bille]

And 2 other Topics:

.Best site to keep photos of postcards?
.Show your postcards?

[tesc]

I started with albums

It soon became clear these wouldn’t be adequate.
I played wigh lever arch files & plastic wallets + plastic boxes for new cards waiting to go out.

I became increasingly concerned about levels of plastic in my hobby so tried photo storage boxes from Amazon
File dividers within for countries & the odd box for specialisms e.g. birds & bridges for me.

I also display newly received cards on the wall until filed.

I like the boxes strong/compact & not too large/heavy to manoeuvre. I revisit cards when I file which is nice too.

[mustafatell]

I use albums but I am running out of space in my office for these albums. I send and receive postcards since I was a kid. I kept most of the ones I received. But, now after joining postcrossing, I am getting a lot of cards. I love it but I got to find a way to make my wife happy with me taking over every space we have in the book shelves for my cards albums (I also collect stamps and I have albums for those too. You can see my problem now)

[FiatFilius]

Ours are in a postcard display in our living room.

[ay_cee]

Inspired by this thread, I overthought my kind of storing the cards.

I found an old traveling book - pages of it are my new background. To connect the two sides I glue them on a page from old papers I do not use anymore and but some washi-tape over it.
Then I use photo corners to “stick” the cards to the page. To protect them I put everything in a transparent sheet.
At first I wanted to categorize them, but I couldn’t find a fitting pattern, so I order them how they came.

I like it, when it’s colorful and from time to time I reread postcards again and some of my favorites taking place in a frame near by bed

[Geiwa]

I keep my postcards in A5 folders, and a few A4 folders.
There are separate themes. But the main part is divided by country.

[newfiedana]

How are you enjoying Postcrossing now? I hope you have received more cards!

[newfiedana]

Wow! How many postcards do you currently have? or do you even know?? haha!

[kara_ann]

I keep mine in boxes by country with a separate box for my UNESCO cards. But will share this project I did a few years ago. I got into Postcrossing after inheriting my grandmother’s postcard collection. These are all vintage linen cards sent to or from my grandmother or my great-grandparents. It’s just a fraction of her collection, but they are very special to me. Eventually I want to do something similar with some of my own collection.