The Rhode Island Post Card Club's post card exhibit and sale will be held from 9 AM to 3 PM on Sunday, October 27, 2024, at the Washington Masonic Lodge located at 1515 Ten Rod Road in North Kingstown. The show features a dozen dealers from throughout New England, who will offer vintage holiday and picture post cards as well as books, photographs, historic documents and other ephemera for sale. This is one of the largest such events held in New England. Whether you are interested in views of your hometown as it looked in the last century or old-time post cards featuring Halloween greetings, Santa Claus, amusement parks or some other topic, this is the place to find them.  Admission is $4 at the door. The hall can be found by following Rt. 102 north from Rt. 4 or Rt. 102 south from Rt. 95. This section of Ten Rod Road is also the merged section of RI routes 2 and 102.   ... View more

These are the proposed increases for July 2024.    Product                  Current Prices           Planned Prices Letters (1 oz.) 68 cents 73 cents Letters (metered 1 oz.) 64 cents 69 cents Domestic Postcards 53 cents 56 cents International Postcards $1.55 $1.65 International Letter (1 oz.) $1.55 $1.65 The additional-ounce price for single-piece letters increases from 24 cents to 28 cents. The Postal Service is also seeking price adjustments for Special Services products, including Certified Mail and money order fees. Notably, there will be no price increase for Post Office Box rental fees, and the Postal Service will apply a price reduction of 10 percent for postal insurance when mailing an item. Single Piece Media Mail increases to $4.13 up to 1lb There are currently no price changes for USPS shipping services like Priority Mail® and Ground Advantage™. ... View more

Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History 241 Wellesley St, Weston, MA 02493 Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 10:00 AM Stop by to explore and purchase POSTCARDS of ALL KINDS at a show featuring renowned postcard dealers from all over New England, including the Rhode Island Postcard Collectors Club.  Hours 10AM to 3PM.  Attendance is free, as is parking. See you there!   Deltilogical will have a table and the other dealers attending are top shelf.    The MTA stops are within a mile or so of Regis College, where the Spellman is located.   ... View more

I took a year to sell a very large group of milk bottles and misc stuff which I had no trouble with views on.I am just now getting back to postcards and papergoods. I knew that the search was messed up before but now that I am starting to list again I see that I don't have many views and I am struggling to use item specific's. I use sixbit and for a lot of cards that do not fit into a easy category (Christmas--- Santa) I am just typing in a  close description. And on the topographical cards I type in the town and state in the same line because there is not a separate area for the state. Any help?    ... View more