The archive
Kept by hand,
offered by post.
Poste Restante began with a single card mailed to a name at a general delivery counter in Marseille, 1958. Its recipient never came. It was kept — and then, quietly, another followed.
Sixty years, quietly
A slow, insistent collection.
Six decades later, the collection numbers three hundred and forty-two — pressed carefully into linen boxes, each with its date, its sender, its silent journey.
This site is a slow window onto that archive. New cards are added on the first Sunday of each month, transcribed by hand, filed by decade and by port.
We believe a postcard is the shortest form of literature — a country, a stamp, a stranger, a small true thing said well.
342
Cards archived
68
Countries
1958
First arrival