I started Postmark-a-Day in November 2022 as a way to display the several-thousand postmarks in my Austro-Hungarian postmark collection, one a day, on the exact day they were cancelled. Aside from the beauty of the thing itself, I wanted to share some the stories they tell. Many of these towns have changed hands from one country to another, have fell on hard times and plague, and some have ceased to exist altogether. With these postmarks, particularly on stamps printed from 1850 until 1910 during the reign of Franz Josef, one is able to hold something from a place no longer accessible. And many of these small villages and market towns hold rich, fascinating histories - tales of success and loss, of the tragedy of war which so often impacted Europe throughout the early modern period. With this account my idea was to bring life and justice to these locations whose significance has been lost to the annals of history.