Strange Mail

[xoxoxoBruce]

Along with the usual junk mail and lies from/about the politicians, I got this postcard.
I think the picture is a Chinese soldier... or Billy, maybe Ibram, but not breakingnews..... with antennae, a rocket and a shoulder strap that must be hand held.
Don't know what it says....probably, we love walmart.
On the other side it was hand addressed, PA postmark, a regular postcard stamp(not postage machine) and an upside down, glued on, advertisement/announcement.
Peeling off the glued on ad reveals Chinese writing.

The ad is for a Wollemi pine tree, thought to be extinct for 2 million years, but discovered in 1994 in Australia.
It says they'll be for sale through National Geographic, giving the phone number and website for NG.

It looks like someone in China got some of the pine seeds and has been propagating them. Then they cut a deal to have national geographic to market them here in the states, if they advertised with NG's mailing list.
I'd guess the postcards were acquired from the Chinese government or a printers overrun, made up in China and sent bulk freight to the US and mailed locally by the tree seller. NG would have used a postage meter and non-profit organization rates.

I am curious about the wisdom of marketing here, with Chinese nationalistic/militaristic postcards.