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With the issuance of the 1c postal card in May of 1873 the Post Office Department decided nothing was to be written on the front of a postal card except the address. In fact, there is on record a first issue postal card with 5c postage due charged because there was a date written on the address side of the postal card.
Again in the case of the private mailing cards authorized as of July 1, 1898, a personal message could not appear on the front or address side of the post card. This is illustrated by the card in Figure 1 which has on it the following statement just to the left of the dividing line: "In space below may be...