"Most visitors to the UK are 'cheap'" That resembles me, but I don't have to be in the UK to be Scottish and frugal.

I also agree that postcards get treated different, the USPS does a job on them as well.

Here's what the last thousand looked like, before they got trucked off to Florida.

Part of my thinking is, that if they go to a home play set, sold by the hundreds, they are in effect removed from the collectors market.

The last of these are going next. 10 x 12 box, 6 inches deep. Too heavy to lift onto the scale for now, about 60 pounds of chips.