When I started Postcrossing I had a few ‘Nature India’ maxicards published by IndiaPost but I don’t think I sent them officially. That was also the last time I bought maxicards. They are more expensive than normal cards and also need additional postage to be mailed out. IndiaPost seems to come out with at least one set every year. There are also private maxicards that are published.
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I’m from Germany and was wondering where to get the Maxicards issued by Deutsche Post. How can I subscribe for them and can I get more than one of each card?
Sadly I couldn’t find any info on the Deutsche Post website 
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I love receiving these , I am jealous that your post office makes so many. Keep sending them!!
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Living in the USA I had always wondered where these came from. Being fairly new to all this at the time. Now as I become more involved in the Postcrossing community and other forums I am deeply in love with them. I purchased a Large box of 700 cards that were cheap, so that I could add to my already too large stash of postcards. There are many Maxi cards , and non traditional (the card exactly matches the stamp) cards. I have no idea what to do with them. There are hundreds. I also have a collection of Maxi cards from a company that made them in the 80’s for every US stamp there is. There are about 300 of those. I am set for trading for life. BUT I love receiving the cards written in the mail addressed to myself the best. I dont like keeping many that i have bought from someone elses collection, so I will send all of these out now I think, or swap them.
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I’m always happy about recieving maxicards. Up to now they all came from Australia:
Once I bought one German maxicard off eBay:
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I recently bought a job lot of ‘mint’ PHQ stamp postcards (UK) on eBay and was amazed to find that a fair number of them were actually stamped and franked, so vintage maxicards. Their backs are indeed mostly blank (some have the stamp on the back). They look like they were originally bought by collectors who are now selling them off.
I’ve been sending them with new additional postage affixed. For example
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hello, i would love to swap your maxicard. but unfortunately right now we still can’t send mails to Europe…
i’ll give update 
hello, i would love to swap your maxicard. how can i see it ?
thanks
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It is always a holiday for me if there is a maxi card in the mailbox. I love them madly and collect them. I am very upset that my address does not reach the Australians, and I so hope to get maxicards.
I can send you what you want from Russia. We have a lot of maxi cards. Look for the address. I collect them and therefore always buy with a margin.
the lighthouse is just a miracle, what a pity that there is no way to add it to the collection
Unfortunately I have no more left.
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It makes it quite a bit cheaper to send maxi cards from Australia. You can buy 3 months worth at a discounted price. And there is also a seller on Etsy. This helps to make Postcrossing affordable for me.
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Hi!
EDIT: Okay, I get what a maxicard is now, BUT if I have to add additional postage to the back of the postcard, will the post office know to count the postage on the image side/ will they know to postmark both (especially the one on the image side?)
What exactly is considered a maxicard? I found a postcard with the American Holly stamp on it as the design, and just order the matching actual American Holly postage stamp, do these two things combined count as a maxicard?
Follow up questions:
Do I have to put the matching stamp on the face side of the postcard? And if I do, will the post office count that towards the actual postage for the postcard?
Does the cancellation stamp have to match to be considered a maxicard?
Any additional info is greatly appreciated! Thank you!
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Somebody more knowledgeable will be able to answer your queries but I doubt the post office will be cancelling the stamp on the front of the card. You could ask for a hand cancel but it would be a normal cancel and nothing to do with the American Holly. In order for the card to be a maxicard, the cancellation would have to be something similar. Also, the postage on the front isn’t counted, it is merely decoration.
There are two places in the US named ‘Holly’. Perhaps you could request a postmark from one of them.
There is an old thread on the forum where a few people have discussed making their own maxicards, you might find this link helpful:
I’m not a specialist on maxicards, there may be others that can help better.
This depends on your postal service. Here we can send a maxicard by mail only the next days they are issued = the date on the rubber stamp. If the stamps at the image are not enough, they should count the stamps in the written part. But no one sends maxicards by mail without envelope so I’m not sure nowadays workers will know that.
After the first days of issuying the maxicards must be sent on envelopes, which is also more secure cause nowadays with the automatic machines they can cancel the image side by mistake and ruin what could have been a very cool maxicard.
The links above are helpful. A maxicard is not just a card and a matching stamp, the rubber stamp much match also with the other 2. For example. You can have an elephant card and an elephant stamp (issued in Portugal). The rubber stamp must be from a place where elephants live. It cannot be a rubber stamp from Lisbon, but it can be a rubber stamp dedicated to the Lisbon Zoo. The purists will say that the breed of the animal must also match, we have african elephants, the postcard cannot be from an asian elephant.
In your case, the Holly you mean, is this plant? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilex_opaca
I’m not a specialist but I’d say the matching rubber stamps to cancel those stamps can be from Massachusetts, Florida, Missouri and Texas cause it’s from the plant is native. But again, you should ask in a Maxicards specialized site to confirm it. 
Good point, I think this will work too! 
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In Germany the stamps on the picture side do not count, they’re only decoration!
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I’m glad to hear that. And many people like them, so it’s a win-win really! 