Huddersfield is located in West Yorkshire and is home to 142 000 people. Human settlements have been in the area since the Iron Age. The remains of a Roman fort was found here in the mid 18th century. The earliest mention of Huddersfield in documents is 1086 in the Domesday Book. It's been a market town since Anglo-Saxon times.  The card is a reproduction of an old advertisement for F. H. Ayres', which manufactured sports and games. A cricket match is shown on the front. The Huddersfield Cricket League was founded in 1891. It represents teams from the suburbs of Huddersfield and villages in the Huddersfield district area. There are 41 teams in the league.

Shijiezhuang  石家庄  is the capital city of Hebei. It is a city of 11.2 million people. It experienced rapid growth after the founding of the People's Republic of China as a result of industrialization and infrastructural development.  Shijiezhuang Gongfu FC  石家庄功夫足球俱乐部  was established in 2020 as Hebei Jingying Zhihai FC. They play in the China League One, the second level of Chinese football. They play out of Yutong International Sports Centre, which can hold 29 000 for football.  This was a World Postcard Day card for 2024. 

Hefei is the capital city of Anhul province and has a population of almost 10 million people. It is a leading city for scientific research will several universities, including the University of Science and Technology of China. There are seven national laboratories. There is the Institute of Solid State Physics. The no. 105 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army is reportedly the site of the first human trials using CRISPR genome editing in 2015. 

I'm going to copy word for word this card. She sent it in an envelope and has written on both sides. She also included this vintage card. I think she has a great story to tell: I live in the Mile High City of Denver, Colorado. Colorado is a 'vote by mail' state, which is oddly rare amongst the 50 US states. We voted to have our ballots mailed to all registered voters. Thank goodness we can fill them out at home because Colorado's ballots are l-o-n-g. Citizens can put ballot issues via enough signatures and then the entire electorate votes for them. It's been mixed results. Sometimes it's a check on representative government, at other times it is issues that should be left to professionals.  One thing that has never changed is the trusty blue box. even with excellent regular mail delivery, my neighbours and I were distraught that we didn't have a Blue Box on the corner while an apartment building was constructed. It's back now. We like using it because we...

The sender says he was originally from Michigan, but now lives in Palm Desert. Palm Desert is located about 200 kilometres east of Los Angeles and has a population of 51 000. It is California's fastest growing cities. Almost 38% of the population are over the age of 65. The average age of Palm Desert is 56.1 years. A lot of retired Canadian ex-pats and snowbirds make Palm Desert their permanent or seasonal home.  The card features a scorpion. Scorpions have adapted to a wide range of environmental conditions and can now be found on all continents except Antarctica. Scorpions number about 1750 described species, with 13 extant families recognized to date. Only about 25 of thee species are know to have venom capable of killing a human being. Scorpions are also known to glow is a vibrant blue-green when exposed to certain wavelengths of ultraviolet light, due to the presence of fluorescent chemicals in the cuticle. This fluorescence may have an active role in scorpion light detection....

The sender lives in uptown Manhattan which has a rich and cultured history. Harlem is found in uptown Manhattan and was the centre of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in uptown Manhattan is considered the birthplace of the modern gay-rights movement in 1969. Upper Manhattan. Manhattan is home to almost 1.7 million people and is the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City, with almost 29 000 people per  km 2  .  The sender says their house supports the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (Manhattan is home to the New York Rangers), the San Antonio Spurs (Manhattan is home to the New York Knicks), and New York City Football Club (who will be playing at Etihad Park in Queens, New York, when the stadium is finished).