Victims receive postcards in the mail offering free gift cards, but when they try to claim, the scam kicks in.

“The Postcard,” a novel by the French author Anne Berest, opens on a snowy morning in a Parisian suburb: “My mother lit her first lung-charring cigarette of the morning, the one she enjoyed most, and ...

It's been nearly 150 years since the postcard first came on the scene. The great-grandparent to tweets, profiles, feeds and other social media, postcards were once the most efficient and cheapest form ...

Alan Ball sent the postcard to his family during the summer of 1953. Last week, it arrived at his home in Idaho. By Hannah Ziegler In 1953, during his first trip away from his Illinois home, Alan Ball ...

The mysterious card, from 2003, is at the center of Anne Berest’s book, which is part detective story, part examination of French attitudes toward Judaism. By Laura Cappelle Laura Capelle reported ...

Postcards changed the way the world was seen. Often, critics said, by making it look worse. Their visual style—palm trees, sunsets, saturated colour—is as recognisable as a Greek vase and, thanks to ...