Talk:Postal stationery

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I removed the link to a separate article on aerogramme and instead made that empty page redirect here. I also added link to short stationery article. Trelvis 14:50, Sep 9, 2003 (EDT)

Postal card needs its own stub. It is frequently confused with the term postcard, but they are quite different. The word postcard has its own link now and a goodly amount of material. The term postal card does not have its own listing and when you type it in, you get redirected to postcard. The difference is that a postal card is a piece of postal stationery with an indicia or indication of pre-paid postage and is generally available from postal authorities. A postcard is available at commercial outfits and you have to separately apply a postage stamp to mail it. I'm new to this editing. How does one break a redirect link and start a new stub? Bobdatty 17:20, Nov 25, 2010 (MDT)

Bobdatty it may not be quite as easy as you suggest because, as you see, the first image in postcard is a postal stationery item called "Post Card" which I think undermines your idea. It might be better to keep one article, leave the redirect and distinguish them clearly rather than have separate articles. You don't blank a redirect and leave it that way; you remove the redirect code and immediately add the prose you want for the article you are starting. Good luck. ww2censor (talk) 03:20, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ascher was not the first person to produce a catalogue of postal stationery. There are at least three others who produced a catalogue of postal stationery before Ascher. Stanley Gibbons produced a total twelwe editions of a catalogue of postal stationery, the last being in 1900. Bright & Sons also produced a catalogue – the 1914 edition is shown as being the tenth edition. J B Moens produced a catalogue in 1893. JPKos (talk) 10:03, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]