No, dammit, the postcard is not dead. I still send them, I still love recieving them. And while, yes, you can’t beat those ruffled edged Kodakchrome color landscapes you can still buy from postcard racks and at garage sales, access to the wonders of digital means that you can create your own postcards with your own images and, hey, they do not suck! Witness the phone call from my dad, so amused by that picture of me with the penguins, or hey wait? Is that my picture of Austria under your fridge magnet? No, it isn’t, not YET. But it could be…
Postcardly has given me a credit for 15 postcards. I will happily send one your way if you’re in the first 15 to send me your address — US only, sorry. Five of those postcards will inlcude a promo code. If you get one, you’ll get a code that gives you a free 15 postcards to send, too. Nice, eh?
A disclaimer: This is my test run for the service. I can’t tell you right now if I think it’s great or not, I just don’t know. I do love love love me some postcards though and anything that makes it easy for me to send them, well, in theory, I love that, too.
Want a postcard and maybe the promo code? I need your mailing address. Get it to me via email, or the Facebook, or the Twitter, or whatever. Do not leave your address in the comments. Though if you’re inspired to leave a comment about the ways in which postcards are awesome, please do so.
I still send old-fashioned postcards to my mom and a few friends if I’m on a trip of more than a week.
My husband’s grandmother did not have a camera for her travels in the 1950s and ’60s, so she collected postcards in scrapbooks. They are so lovely to look at.
Before each trip, I print mailing labels to use on postcards while I’m traveling. The time I save looking up addresses and printing them on the cards is used to write a line or two to personalize the greeting.
You can’t believe how many people say that’s the first “real mail” they’ve received in who knows how long.
I love postcards as well. Too bad you can only send to people in the States. Oh, well, maybe another time.
I went on a trip once with a man who travels on tours 2 or 3 times a year and sends 100 postcards each time. He has kept an address book of all the people he made friends with on all the tours he’s been on, so we hear from him at least once a year. Quite a hobby! I’m probably too late sending my address, but I’ll try.