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Share your tacky treasures with the world! If you have a specimen as stinky as the ones featured here, send it along. If it passes our rigorous review board, we'll publish it here with your name forever acknowledged as The Discoverer entered upon the rolls of the official Tacky Postcard Archive. You can send a scan, or we'll do the scanning here and send the card back to you, in a plain brown wrapper, if you prefer, to avoid undue embarrassment. But first, read the sobering truth about what we can, and canīt, accept.
Basically, tacky post cards come in two flavors: Home Grown and Nouveau Gauche. We don't accept many Nouveau Gauche cards. Here's how to tell the difference: Home Grown cards are highly prized, because their tackiness is completely unintentional. They are the result of seriously misguided judgment, and if you have one, we'll welcome it to the Archive and share it with the world. Nouveau Gauche cards are fakes made by companies that intentionally seek out tacky photos (usually old ones) and publish them as new post cards. Although some are brilliantly done, they're far more common, and usually protected by copyright. Some publishers will grant permission for us to display them, and you'll see a few in this collection, but not many. Click here to see examples of the difference. Older cards are often better candidates. Check the color of the back of the card. Just as stellar distances can be estimated by measuring a star's red shift, you can often date post cards by their "yellow shift." The yellower, the better.
Browse around in here for a while. You'll see. Bad taste is fine (the worse the better!) but only up to a point. We won't publish cards featuring gruesome violence or explicit sex. This is not because we're prudes, but because we can't hope to compete with other sites that do it so well. Besides, our intention here is to preserve that ephemeral sense of adolescent "booger joke" humor that fades away after about age 12 unless you really work at it. Tijuana Teasers featuring donkeys or power tools just don't fit the mix.
We prefer to do our own scans, but will gladly accept yours. General guidelines:
Ask first, please! Our real office traffic is heavy, so we set up a separate e-mail server for the Tacky Postcard Archive. This one is free, and it's funky. It drops things when stuffed full, and we don't want your scan to be lost. Click here to send us a message before sending a post card. Tell us how many graphics you want to send, and how large they are. We'll clear out the in-box and make sure there's room for them. One more thing: We'll need a scan of BOTH sides of the card. We have to see the back to check copyright info, obtain permission if necessary, quote the caption, and properly credit the publisher, photographer, etc.
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