Postcards seem to be a dying art these days. When was the last time you received one in the mail? When was the last time you were the one to mail one?
Now it seems that every day when we’re on a trip and post our photos to Facebook (or other social media sites), or email or text photos to family and friends, we’re sending a ton of postcards at once… and we’re not spending money doing it.
Do you have any postcard traditions? Are there any postcards stuck on your fridge right now? Please leave a comment below after you vote and tell us. These are the kinds of stories we like to hear.
One thing about post cards is that they require more time and trouble than an e-mail or message, which means that they implicitly say “I care enough about you to spend some time saying hi.” As opposed to an e-mail or message, which implicitly says, “I think you’re worth about 2 seconds of my time.” Unfortunately, “I really like you — about two seconds’ worth” seems to be the norm nowadays.
Post Cards: We use the modern method to send the occasional card to friends and family. Several app services that enables you to use one of your travel photos to make the postcard and write your message, then the company prints snd mails thr card using an address book you create and save. Super easy and all of our recipients love them. Post Snap is the app we most frequently use.
As an old fogey, I still mail Christmas Cards too. Get well cards, thank you cards, post cards, letters to friends…
Almost every trip, unless we forget or can’t find them, we send postcards. Who doesn’t love a hand written note with a beautiful picture from someone they love? We send them to people who can’t travel much anymore, our kids, and our mothers and others who can’t get out anymore. It’s fun. We enjoy it.
I buy and send post cards to our grandchildren so they can see where we are traveling and hopefully learn a little something about each place. They LOVE getting mail. Our oldest is 20 years old now and she recently told me how much she has always loved receiving our post cards and has actually saved them ALL! Made my heart smile! The younger grands range between 8-12 years old now and they all enjoy getting them.
I have decided to send post cards to our grand children this summer while we are away.
Fl State Parks were to open last Mon per
Our Governor.
We drove our CoachHouse RV to Sarasota
Yesterday hoping to stay overnight in 1 of 2
State Parks nearby.
Nope! Both were Closed! Nada!
We drove home depressed and not pleased
With our State Gov’ment.
I believe that they were only opened for daytime visitors. So sorry you had to go home. But look at the bright side you had a nice ride. 🥰
I worked overseas for 25 years and regularly sent my grandmother post cards. She passsed away while I was in Germany and was unable to attend the funeral. Upon returning to the States, her daughter my aunt gave me a stack of the post cards I had sent. She said “Dah Dah” looked at them all the time in her otherwise mundane life. It touched my heart that she received such happiness from these cards. I had no idea. It’s good to remember such small jestures as sending a post card can have such a meaningful impact for people we care about.
Post Cards!
We now reside in the Electronic age.
Today we send instant Photos/Videos (instant messaging) to our friends and family.
Video calls are the new norm; smart things.
I believe most of us carry our pictures around today in our pocket; waiting to share as needed.
Paper products are old school.
Who ever thought we would have this convenience back in the 1950’s.
Fits in a shirt pocket.
How convenient… a mobile album…
Send photos and explanation of what and where, via media.
Send postcards to my grandson of places we visit. They are then hung on his bedroom wall.
Not only do we send postcards to the grandkids we keep many in our travel journal.
I don’t ever even see them anymore, where do even see them to buy???
I have a growing group of folks I send postcards to about once a month as I travel. I thought they might think them ‘lame’ but, turns out they are much appreciated, kids and grown-ups alike. The hardest thing is finding good ones, you have to keep a lookout for a museum, gift shop, or truck stop that has them.
I answered “very often.” Actually< I don't send post cards or letters, but my wife sends a lot of them!
We send postcards to our 7 grandchildren and my 91 year old mother. My husband has a teacher from high school he corresponds with via cards/letters. So he is on the list as is some of my other family on occasion. Let’s them know we are thinking about them. The grandkids love getting something addressed to them. Yes, we send “pictures” from our mobile devices, but my Mom doesn’t have a device. Even though kids use computers for school, we would never send directly to them. Not even sure if they can receive as parents have restrictions on their devices and monitor closely. Plus, it’s fun trying to find postcards that may share something our phones can’t capture with a little history/fact note. All 7 grandchildren from 3 children send thank you notes for gifts/money, even if the little ones just scribble something. We enjoy them and glad our kids are teaching them to acknowledge their thanks in writing. I’m sure some day it will sadly be a lost art.
postcards??? lol
We travel in our RV 7 months out of the year. We have a 2 1/2 year old grandson that we send postcards to from every stop. We’ve been doing this since he was born. His mother puts them in date order in postcard books. Hopefully he’ll love looking through them and reading our notes his whole life.
In our fulltime traveling, we send post cards showing the things we’re seeing or doing to our grandkids & my wife’s mother, who is 94 & used to travel to the same areas 30 years ago. She has no computer or smart phone, so this is the best way for her to follow us & it brings back fond memories from her past travels.
Like many here, we send postcards to our grandsons regularly. They look forward to getting the mail and we enjoy sharing something fun & interesting with them. The hard part is finding ones that are geared to young children. We send them to friends when we run across one that may be a shared joke or interest we have. I also send them to my 93 year old father – it helps him get up and moving to have to go to the mailbox to check!
We like to send postcards to our grand-kids of national parks and other major attractions we visit during our road trips. Two years ago, when our oldest granddaughter was in 4th grade, we send her a lot of postcards from thru out California for her classroom display. Last year we visited 16 national parks and sent all the grand-kids individual postcards from each park. Their parents said they enjoyed getting the postcards in the mail.
I mail postcards regularly whether traveling or not. My Facebook feed is filled with comments and thanks from folks when they receive them. I have one friend who I exchange multiple postcards with each month. We try to outdo each other in sending wacky, boring, and unusual cards. It would be great to get more postcards from others, but I don’t let the lack of replies spoil my fun in continuing to send them!
On some travels we send postcards to people we know but they don’t know we’re travelling. We send notes like “The scenery is here, wish you were beautiful” (no that’s not a typo), mention something personal but not weird, or similar friends. We don’t sign them so they don’t know who they’re from. When we get home and the next time we get together we tell them it was us that sent them. They always laugh and say how they wracked their brains trying to figure out who sent them. It’s all great fun.
Christmas card pictures maybe, but the internet has superceded any need for post cards in many respects. Still, a beautiful scenery picture is nice one in a while.
Have an elderly aunt that loves to receive a post card if you can find them. That maybe one of the reasons they are not sent. I try to send 1 from each state I’m in.
We send quite a few postcards to our grandchildren
When on a trip we always send several post cards to my sister in PA. She is elderly and doesn’t do FB.
We mailed postcards to my Mother and my wife’s Mother regularly while traveling. They enjoyed them very much as they were not part of today’s “wireless” world. Unfortunately, they have both passed. We did postcards to the grandkids until they [with their parents] started to do “facetime” phone calls occasionally.
We enjoy sending picture post cards of our travels to our grandkids. Gives them (ages 8 and 5 now) a visual of where we are visiting…also a learning opportunity when they Google more info.