E10: The Great Postcard Giveaway

Published: April 2, 2018, 1:53 a.m.

What if you collected postcards the majority of your life, then woke up one morning and decided to give away all those postcards? One at a time.

That\u2019s what this week\u2019s guest did. Frank Boscoe created\xa0an Instagram site\xa0where he documents his\xa0Great Postcard Giveaway. Frank asks people to DM their address and he sends them a postcard from his collection. Simple as that. One a day until they\u2019re gone.

I became fascinated with Frank\u2019s story as I follwed him on Insta. But when he mentioned he was going to present a PechaKucha talk about his postcard giveaway, I knew I had to hear more.

And am I ever glad I did. You will be, too. Frank is a fascinating guy, and he started out the show with a quiz in the style of Will Shortz that really got me thinking. He also recommends an app \u2014\xa0Unfade Pro\xa0\u2014 that\u2019s taken my postcard photography up a notch. And he created a special version of his PechaKucha talk for Postcardist listeners.

Click here to see more details on the Postcardist website.

Music in this episode:

Ragtime Dance\xa0by Scott Joplin, licensed under a Creative Commons\xa0Public Domain Mark 1.0 License. Music sourced from\xa0Free Music Archive.

Solo Acoustic Guitar\xa0by Jason Shaw, licensed under a Creative Commons\xa0Attribution 3.0 United States License. Music sourced from\xa0Free Music Archive.

Audio in this episode:

Good luck, we\u2019re all counting on you, from the movie Airplane, sourced under YouTube standard license.

Swing and a miss, the call by Harry Kalas calls the Philadelphia Phillies winning the World Series in 1908, sourced under a YouTube standard license. All rights reserved by MLB.

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