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Depends where I am
My mum definitely loves getting a postcard, as does my gran. So I will often go to the effort of sending them something, and they do likewise.
I also tend to find a few silly postcards and send witty messages to my friends. You know the type of postcard you get when you're in Europe, find the photo with a statue of a big willy and send it to your mate (especially if you know their work address!) and wait till 3 weeks after you've got home for them to receive it
My mum definitely loves getting a postcard, as does my gran. So I will often go to the effort of sending them something, and they do likewise.
I also tend to find a few silly postcards and send witty messages to my friends. You know the type of postcard you get when you're in Europe, find the photo with a statue of a big willy and send it to your mate (especially if you know their work address!) and wait till 3 weeks after you've got home for them to receive it
My father is a vintage postcard dealer and has thousands of them ! Back in the 1900's, it was like Email of today, where millions of postcards would be sent each week. Back then, you could go to work in the morning and then send a message to her indoors, on the back of a postcard, saying "There's been trouble down mill - I'll be working late tonight, so put the pie and mash in the oven for me." That was when there was post being delivered the same day - up to seven times a day.
Some Postcard collectors have 40,000 to 50,000 cards in their collection.
Some Postcard collectors have 40,000 to 50,000 cards in their collection.
Shakermaker said:
I also tend to find a few silly postcards and send witty messages to my friends. You know the type of postcard you get when you're in Europe, find the photo with a statue of a big willy and send it to your mate (especially if you know their work address!) and wait till 3 weeks after you've got home for them to receive it
Me and my oldest mate do this, and have done for getting on 30 years - I always send mine 'accidentally' to his grumpy next door neighbourA couple of years ago I switched to using an app called ByPost. It's run by one chap and works brilliantly. You just take a photo etc of where you are and then can send it with your message as per a conventional postcard. It is then printed locally to the recipient and posted to them.
Sending postcards isn't really a bloke thing but this makes it all pretty straightforward.
Sending postcards isn't really a bloke thing but this makes it all pretty straightforward.
loafer123 said:
On a trip around the world we used a postcard service where you take a photo, upload it to their site and then they send the physical postcard with your message to your friends and family.
Local postage and personalised, too.
Make sure you keep ithe website secret so noone else can use it.Local postage and personalised, too.
John_S4x4 said:
My father is a vintage postcard dealer and has thousands of them ! Back in the 1900's, it was like Email of today, where millions of postcards would be sent each week. Back then, you could go to work in the morning and then send a message to her indoors, on the back of a postcard, saying "There's been trouble down mill - I'll be working late tonight, so put the pie and mash in the oven for me." That was when there was post being delivered the same day - up to seven times a day.
Some Postcard collectors have 40,000 to 50,000 cards in their collection.
Some Postcard collectors have 40,000 to 50,000 cards in their collection.
Does he collect thiese lsort of cards?' I inherited quite a lot of the old sepia post cards too if they are of interest to him.
So, you can take a picture, use an app to write a message, and send it to someone as if it is a postcard?
How is that different to e-mailing them a photo? You may as well just post it on Facebook.
What a load of s
te. Either buy a proper postcard, write it, hunt down a post office, and send it, or don't bother.
How is that different to e-mailing them a photo? You may as well just post it on Facebook.
What a load of s
te. Either buy a proper postcard, write it, hunt down a post office, and send it, or don't bother.
Jader1973 said:
So, you can take a picture, use an app to write a message, and send it to someone as if it is a postcard?
How is that different to e-mailing them a photo? You may as well just post it on Facebook.
What a load of ste. Either buy a proper postcard, write it, hunt down a post office, and send it, or don't bother.
Well for starters, outside of Benidorme and Magalufe it is becoming quite difficult to actually buy postcards these days. How is that different to e-mailing them a photo? You may as well just post it on Facebook.
What a load of s
te. Either buy a proper postcard, write it, hunt down a post office, and send it, or don't bother.It's also the 21st century. Besides which, how do you actually think the traditional concept of the 'look at where we are' postcard differs from the concept of the 'look at where we are' Facebook etc?
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