Other People’s Collections – More Postcards Please

In January I read an article in the Chicago Reader about Kristin Lee and her “Chicago-based Instagram Project” which she started in September 2019 because she wanted more postcards to trade with artists. The article by Cody Corrall quotes Kristin, “I hoard postcards, I have postcards that people have written to me and I have so many postcards that are unwritten for me to send out or give out…I am a literal glutton for postcards, it’s ridiculous.”

Kristin decided to turn her love of postcards into a project called More Postcards Please. She rented a post office box and set up an Instagram account to post all the postcards she receives. I’ve always loved to send and receive postcards and I used to have a large collection I inherited from my grandmother. While I don’t have most of those anymore I had found an interesting postcard in a library book that was sitting on my bedside table waiting for the right person to mail it to. I decided Kristin was the perfect recipient and I sent it off in February. It has finally appeared on @morepostcardsplease.

It was such a perfect postcard for the project I even got a direct message (or maybe everyone gets those too.)