Since the possibility of printed photo’s, people would send memories to their loved ones. Photo postcards from foreign places to show the visit to those places; in the pre-Internet era, people would send a postcard to their loved ones on vacation to prove they were there and let them know that everything was ok. It is the time that telephone calls from abroad were hugely expensive. A postcard was cheap and easy to send.
With the emergence of e-mail and later the smartphone, social media, instant messaging, wifi, and cheap roaming costs, everyone is close, and the world is closer-by.
But sending written letters and postcards has a romance about it. I sent a letter to a person, and a few days later it arrived. You never know when an answer would come and even if an answer would come. Sending a postcard from a foreign place feels like a surprise. You can still find postcards in tourist shops. But I am curious about how many postcards we send to loved ones nowadays.
Posting a postcard has a romance to it.
Since the introduction of the Kodak 3a folding pocket camera in the 1890s. With negatives in the same size as postcards. That can be printed directly on postcard cards without cropping. It was easy for someone to take a picture, print it on a postcard card and send it through the mail. Since the beginning of the 20th-century, printing processes have advanced, and postcards with multiple colours were possible. In 1902 the British post office was allowed to write on one half of the postcard generally reserved for the address paving the way for the divided back era of the postcard.
While sending a postcard was in decline, Paulo Magalhães decided to code a website. He loved to receive postcards but did not know many people. And by introducing Postcrossing, he could send postcards to unknown people and receive as many postcards back. They were paving the way to an international postcard exchange.
>While sending a postcard was in decline, Paulo Magalhães decided to code a website. He loved to receive postcards but did not know many people. And by introducing Postcrossing, he could send postcards to unknown people and receive as many postcards back. They were paving the way to an international postcard exchange.
While sending a postcard was in decline, Paulo Magalhães decided to code a website. He loved to receive postcards but did not know many people. And by introducing Postcrossing, he could send postcards to unknown people and receive as many postcards back. They were paving the way to an international postcard exchange.
I have made my picture cards available through my webshop. They run in a limited batch. And only if cards are in demand, I will reprint them.
