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Handwritten dates

Postcard prices in years

On this page, you will find statistics that show the percentage of postcards on which the date of sending was written. You can view the statistics for individual countries in the database or overall. Generally speaking, the date of sending is gradually decreasing and nowadays only a minimum of senders write the date.

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Countries:

Share of postcards with the date of sending: Allcountries

Table of data in individual years: Allcountries

Year

Counts

1907

0,0%

0 / 1

1910

100,0%

1 / 1

1912

100,0%

1 / 1

1916

0,0%

0 / 1

1919

100,0%

1 / 1

1920

100,0%

1 / 1

1921

100,0%

4 / 4

1922

0,0%

0 / 1

1923

100,0%

2 / 2

1925

100,0%

2 / 2

1926

100,0%

2 / 2

1927

66,7%

2 / 3

1928

0,0%

0 / 1

1929

100,0%

1 / 1

1930

60,0%

3 / 5

1931

100,0%

1 / 1

1932

80,0%

4 / 5

1933

100,0%

3 / 3

1934

42,9%

3 / 7

1935

75,0%

3 / 4

1936

100,0%

8 / 8

1937

87,5%

7 / 8

1938

41,7%

5 / 12

1939

50,0%

3 / 6

1940

100,0%

5 / 5

1941

71,4%

5 / 7

1942

66,7%

6 / 9

1943

73,3%

11 / 15

1944

50,0%

8 / 16

1945

100,0%

8 / 8

1946

58,3%

14 / 24

1947

52,4%

11 / 21

1948

57,7%

15 / 26

1949

68,0%

17 / 25

1950

48,5%

16 / 33

1951

38,9%

14 / 36

1952

40,5%

17 / 42

1953

46,4%

13 / 28

1954

62,9%

22 / 35

1955

27,3%

9 / 33

1956

57,1%

16 / 28

1957

51,7%

15 / 29

1958

63,6%

14 / 22

1959

40,0%

10 / 25

1960

48,3%

14 / 29

1961

15,8%

3 / 19

1962

33,3%

4 / 12

1963

35,7%

10 / 28

1964

37,5%

6 / 16

1965

31,6%

6 / 19

1966

31,8%

7 / 22

1967

60,0%

12 / 20

1968

41,2%

14 / 34

1969

39,4%

13 / 33

1970

37,1%

13 / 35

1971

36,4%

16 / 44

1972

23,1%

15 / 65

1973

40,6%

26 / 64

1974

24,3%

9 / 37

1975

28,6%

12 / 42

1976

25,6%

10 / 39

1977

18,8%

9 / 48

1978

18,8%

6 / 32

1979

22,7%

5 / 22

1980

14,8%

4 / 27

1981

9,1%

2 / 22

1982

17,9%

7 / 39

1983

30,6%

11 / 36

1984

15,4%

8 / 52

1985

13,0%

6 / 46

1986

10,3%

4 / 39

1987

7,4%

4 / 54

1988

12,9%

8 / 62

1989

16,7%

12 / 72

1990

14,0%

12 / 86

1991

13,2%

7 / 53

1992

17,5%

7 / 40

1993

22,2%

10 / 45

1994

29,3%

12 / 41

1995

9,3%

5 / 54

1996

25,0%

6 / 24

1997

25,8%

8 / 31

1998

10,5%

4 / 38

1999

18,2%

12 / 66

2000

8,6%

11 / 128

2001

9,1%

10 / 110

2002

15,4%

2 / 13

2003

12,5%

2 / 16

2004

8,7%

2 / 23

2005

33,3%

3 / 9

2006

16,7%

1 / 6

2007

100,0%

2 / 2

2008

0,0%

0 / 5

2009

50,0%

1 / 2

2010

0,0%

0 / 1

2018

0,0%

0 / 1

Table description

Year ...

The year the postcards were sent

Share ...

A number in % that tells what percentage of postcards sent in the specified year had a handwritten date of sending

Counts ...

Data that tells how many postcards in the database the percentage is based on. The number before the / sign tells how many postcards were handwritten with the date, and the number after the slash is the total number of postcards sent in that year

All data in the above table must be taken as is. They are based only on the data collected from the postcards that are stored in this database.