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December 17, 2022 16:51
I wouldn't like it myself.
Someone places an order, and a few weeks later you see the cover (with which you sent the order) with fully legible name and address (on the back: counter address) popping up somewhere on the internet.

If it is a commercial address (a store, merchant, shop) it is not so bad. Example on an FDC #9399597 . Before there were official and other FDCs, many stamp dealers provided the service of providing FDCs. Which they could then sell for a little profit. Those copies were therefore addressed to the stamp dealer in question.
There it has added value not to shield the name. After all, the publisher is that trader.

If it's a private address, then I think being 'private' is best respected. You can solve it neatly (in Paint) without compromising the informative value. Example: #8383265 . Whether that gray box is on it or not has no added or minus value. But the person involved is unrecognizable.
And it makes the item more acceptable to LD. There are, with the same address, few FDCs that have been produced. If FDC (and then that address is not part of the item) yes.

Of course you can want to do it so nicely that it becomes hilarious (and partly defeats its purpose): #5215129 .
You should never edit your own copy. Well the scan :)

As far as postcards are concerned (and therefore also Maximum Cards, of which postcards ALWAYS form the basis) the back is often more interesting than the front. The back proves that it is a postcard (space for message, space for recipient's address, space for postage). In addition, you can often find out on the back who the publisher is, the printer, the designer, ...
Why then so many only add the print of the front ... Perhaps little collector's feeling I think.

With postcards I can imagine that the 'lines' (dots, dashes, one long stripe) can make the difference between 2 copies (is that also called varieties there?).
If a large part of the name and street is blacked out (with a gray bar) I think that should be enough? Perhaps no one will file a complaint because the municipality where they live can be seen on a scan ...
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December 18, 2022 10:03
Raoul62

Handy if you mention my name with Harry56 then I know that my recent post has been responded to. Although I read almost everything.... As I said, I don't like a circulated postcard that is partly "taped" in a catalog. Old postcards can't be a problem for me, recent ones can be quite attentive. What doesn't know what doesn't hurt, but can imagine if by chance it becomes known that your name and address are visible on a postcard, well the 1 doesn't mind another would look up the ceiling or start smoking again. In any case, the advice block when importing postcards is still that everything is allowed. I'm not an expert, what about the rules at all kinds of postcard sites? Do you know that ? I had just put this one in my shop #2937355 , fortunately it was already unopened, but this is a "covered" back. The pencil drawing is early work by Karel Appel...
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