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Posted By: Gil

It should be the intent of the cutter, not the manufacturer, on which items are cards. Afterall the cutter is the collector (who decides on acceptance of an item as a collectible). The manufacturer proposes that an item be accepted as a collectible.

This would apply then to a grandmother in a card shop who chooses to buy a postcard of her grandson's favorite player for him. That sapecific choice, coupled with her grandson's acceptance makes the postcard a collectible baseball card, imo.

A deliberate national or local distribution network has nothing to do with a card's status as a collectible. That identification is an end user choice.