OT: Postcard Classifications

[Greenmonster]

Hi Mark...Postcard collecting is a world wide hobby, huge in Europe, Asia, and all over the world, the hobby dwarfs baseball card collecting. Of course I'm not talking about just baseball theme postcards but all other topics, many, such as artist signed are valued in the thousands of dollars. As far as I know there are no grading companies grading for this market. The baseball card grading companies apply the same grading conditions to the postcard as a baseball card without consideration to what the card was intended for...being mailed. They should consider grading a postcard as either "used" or "unused" and then provide a numeric grade for the condition. Much in the same way they grade Red Man or Zeenut cards with/without tabs/coupons. Currently a postcard that has been used is downgraded because it has been written on, that condition really means little to a postcard collector and in some cases makes the card more desirable.