Date: October 1st, 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Did you know that there’s an official day to celebrate postcards?
October 1st is World Postcard Day!
This day began in 2019 to mark the 150th anniversary of the postcard. Every year, postcard enthusiasts meet up to celebrate the occasion, even making special postcards and stamps!
Join me at the Bellevue postcard-themed mural, seen from the parking area of Cabanita Mexican Food.
When I asked the owner when his food trucks are not in the parking lot, he offered to move it so we can gather and take photos. He even offered to set up the food truck and place tables out for us, so come hungry. I'm really excited that he is excited for World Postcard Day too!
It will be fun to bring a postcard to exchange. I will provide stamps and white address stickers. You will write your Geocaching name as a postcard sender, and write your address on a white address sticker as a postcard recipient. I will randomly choose your postcard's recipient and mail it!
Please consider posting "will attend" so I have enough white address stickers and stamps in hands.
Geocaching HQ is excited to announce a new souvenir to mark World Postcard Day 2025!
Timeline of Postcard History:
- 1777: A French engraver creates a sheet of cards with greetings that could be cut and sent.
- 1840: The world's first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, is introduced.
- 1861: John P. Charlton copyrights the first postcard in America, according to the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
- 1869: The Austrian Post introduces the Correspondenz-Karte, the first official postcard.
- 1870: Congress approves the production of postal cards by the government.
- 1873: The U.S. Post Office issues the first government-produced postal cards.
- 1893: Picture postcards, particularly those sold at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, gain popularity.
- 1898: The Private Mailing Card Act allows private companies to produce postcards, according to the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
- 1907: Postcards with a divided back (one side for the address and one for the message) become permitted in the U.S.
- 1984: National Postcard Week is established in the United States, according to postcardhistory.net.
- 2020: World Postcard Day is first celebrated on October 1st.
As always, no purchase or postcard required to attend this event.
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