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E, DanielThe official figures from the U.S. Post Office for their fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, cite 677,777,798 postcards mailed. At that time the total population of the United States was 88,700,000.
I would guess that at nearly 8 postcards per person, people very likely bought postcards in bunches at an opportune time - then used them as the occasion arose. It seems likely that if you bought 8 but weren't super concientious about keeping up correspondence with the relatives, two or three cards might survive each year free of penmanship. Adding further to the survior rate of these unblemished pc's is the scenario that sports related PC's tended to focus on players and teams of particular years and their accomplishments. Thus, It might seem silly if you didn't get around to posting the 1908 Cubbies winning the championship in the correlating year, you'd just keep it rather than send it on to someone for whom the meaning might be lost by the non-recent nature of the subject.....
Daniel