Post Secrets

Post Secrets by Frank Warren.

Frank Warren is a double secret probationary undercover salesman for the United States Postal Service.  Here is his story:

In 2004, Frank printed and randomly distributed 3000 postcards inviting people to share a secret with him.  Here was his request:

• Take a postcard, or two.
• Tell your secret anonymously.
• Stamp and mail the postcard.
• Be brief - the fewer the words used the better.
• Be legible - use big, clear and bold lettering.
• Be Creative - let the postcard be your canvas.

Frank created a Post Secret Web site and has authored four books publishing postcards that he has received.

The Post Secret book soothes my compulsive need to be in touch with pleasing design.  I even like the way it smells.  But it's the stories on the postcards that steal the show.  Though fewer than two or three sentences complete an entire story, one feels emotionally exhausted after reading just a few.  Strangers revealing and illustrating their deep, dark secrets is mysteriously intriguing.  Or perhaps not.  Perhaps it's just therapeutic and not mysterious to learn that others have held secrets, like our own, close to the vest for years.

That Frank's book is so popular and that so many people have been to his site give evidence to either our morbid curiosity or a deeper need to hear other's stories and connect with them...even if it is at the level of, "hey man, I hear your problem, I can relate brother."

Here are two postcards that aren't quite so heavy:

Frank Warren liberates desperate housewives.

Frank Warren provides a Starbuck's moment.

 

Comments

[Steve Sherlock]

Dave, PostSecret is a good site. The Hitchhikers found it sometime ago and yes, you can only read so much at a time.

Continue telling your story! Happy New Year!

[Steve Sherlock]

Dave, PostSecret is a good site. The Hitchhikers found it sometime ago and yes, you can only read so much at a time.

Continue telling your story! Happy New Year!

[daved]

Hey Steve, thanks, the story can never die my friend!