Hello My name is Piotr Studzinski and I am postcard collector from Poland. I run a website about viewcards and I would like to ask you about giving me an interview about postcards.The interview will appear on my website for everybody who is interested in postcards to see. Please, take in consideration, that it may be very interesting for other collectors to read. Only by sharing our experience we can know ourselves better. This is my website's URL: http://interpc.pl/~mobpiru/index.htm If you are interested in giving me an interview please respond to below listed questions. The more you write, the more interesting the interview will be. Take your time, don't hurry. When you finish, please sent me your answers to my email. Thank you in advance. Name: Country, place: Age: Website, e-mail (if you want other collectors to contact you): 1. How have your adventure with collecting postcards started? 2. In what way do you increase your collecton? Do you only buy postcads and receive them from your friends or familly? Or maybe you have your own special ways to get them? 3. What kind of postcards you are interested in and what kind you don't accept and why? 4. How big is your collection? 5. How do you store your postcards? 6. What postcard was the hardest to get? 7. What postcard is the most valuable for you? (It can be sentimental value or material value) 8. Is there any interesting story behind getting specific postcard or postcards? I'm thinking here about some funny situations or very complicated ones. 9. What postcard is the most wanted for you today and do you see a way to get it? 10. Do you stay in touch with other postcard collectors? If yes, please tell me how many people you know personally and how many do you correspond with? 11. Could you send me some photos of you with your postcards or some specific postcards or anything you would like to show the whole world with your commentary? 12. Was there a time period when you was ready to give up collecting postcards? If yes, please tell me, what made you maintain your hobby despite of this? 13. Could you list some postcards publishers that you think have the best postcards in your country or in Europe or World? Why have you chosen that specific publisher? 14. Could you say, that collecting postcards taught you something? 15. Do you have any experience in exchanging postcards with Polish collectors? What can you say about that? 16. Could you tell me what are your most negative experiences in trading postcards around the world? 17. What about Internet? Do you have your own website about postcards? Do you see Internet as something that make collecting postcards easier? Something that takes it to another level? Would it be harder for you to get postcards from specific countries if there would be no Internet? 18. Was there somebody that had offered you money for selling your collection? Have you had a dilema in that situation or maybe you was sure that you dont't want to sell your postcards? Is there a postcard that you wouldn't sell even for good money? If yes, what postcard it is? 19. What would you like to be done with your postcards after your death? Would you like somebody to continue your hobby or maybe you would like to give the postcards for free for the museum or to other collector? 20. Do you have any other interests apart from collecting postcards? What could you tell me about it? Is it somehow connected with postcards? 21. Is there anything you would like to add to this interview? Thank you very much for taking your time to read the questions. I hope to hear from you soon Best regards Piotr Studzinski