Postcards - Postally Used or Unused

[kcohen]

To those who collect postcards, which do you prefer? From a grading standpoint, one obviously does better with unused. However, used postcards for me can have an allure and convey a history that unused cannot.

I thought of this yesterday when I received a piece purchased on BST, a HM Taylor Hughie Jennings (Thanks, Jason). On the back is written a message by the sender (Ed) to a friend (Paul) and posted September 2, 1908 in Detroit and sent to Cleveland. On the back is written, " How do, Paul. Keep on smiling. Cleveland ain't doing a thing to Detroit. Three straight. Ha Ha. That's going some. Ed"

From what he wrote, I thought Tiger fan Ed was rubbing it it to Naps fan Paul with the Tigers having beaten the Naps 3 straight. Checking baseball-reference.com, this is what I fully expected to find. However, what occurred was the opposite. Cleveland had taken 3 straight.

So I'm not sure what to make of it. Doesn't really matter. Back to the original question, do you prefer used or unused?