United States Postal Service Cathy Postcards

I include modern items in my USA postal history collection, including these "Cathy" postcards mailed to my house as a USPS marketing campaign. I am not sure what year these were mailed, somewhere around 2006. For those not familiar elsewhere in the world, here is what Wikipedia says about the "Cathy" cartoon strip:

"Cathy is an American gag-a-day comic strip, drawn by Cathy Guisewite from 1976 until 2010. The comic is about a woman, Cathy, who struggles through the "four basic guilt groups" of life—food, love, family, and work. The strip gently pokes fun at the lives and foibles of modern women. The strip debuted on November 22, 1976, and appeared in over 1,400 newspapers at its peak."

I have only 3 in my collection. My address is covered for privacy. If anyone has other ones, please add to this post.

Linus

There were 9 Cathy cards sent to residential addresses to promote personal services. There are also 10 Dilbert cards mailed to PO Boxes and businesses to promote business services. They came out together in 2006-7 and were announced in the Postal Bulletin, as mass mailings generally are. They are also mentioned in Bill McAllister's 3/30/2006 Linn's column, p20.

In 2008, I did a 1-frame exhibit of these 19 cards, using narrower pages to get 5 pages per row:



The title page and the 9 Cathy cards:












And the 10 Dilbert cards:













I do not know why there were different numbers of the 2 themes, 9 vs 10. All but the last of those with the wide black bar across the bottom are smaller than the later cards.

I do have several extras available. Assembling both sets is challenging despite being mass-produced.

There is one you do not have in a lot of three (2 Cathy, 1 Dilbert) in a lot on ebay here:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/CATHY-and-...133153391708

John Becker -

Thank you for the detailed information. Now I know the rest of the story on these cards.

Linus

Thanks for the great posts!