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Return postcards consist of a single double-size sheet, and cost double the price of a usual postcard – one addresses and writes one half as a usual postcard, writes one's own address on the return card, leaving the other side blank for the reply, then folds and sends.
"Greetings from Chicago, Illinois" large-letter postcard produced by Curt Teich The history of postcards is part of the cultural history of the United States. Especially after 1900, "the postcard was wildly successful both as correspondence and collectible" and thus postcards are valuable sources for cultural historians as both a form of epistolary literature and for the bank of cultural ...
Websites using special print-personalisation technology, such as Moonpig, allow consumers to personalise a card which is then printed and sent directly to the recipient. Sound personalization is also possible using a small recording device called a Botski, which is a sticker-based recordable medium allowing users to record songs, sounds or ...
Some are quite rare, but many are extremely common; this was the era of the postcard craze, and almost every antique shop in the U.S. will have some postcards with green 1¢ or red 2¢ stamps from this series. In 1910 the Post Office began phasing out the double-lined watermark, replacing it by the same U S P S logo in smaller single-line letters.
First PHQ card issued in 1973 featuring W.G. Grace. PHQ cards are postcards issued by the British Post Office depicting the designs of their commemorative stamps.They are generally available to buy in main post offices about two weeks prior to the release of each new set of stamps.
The Electric Postcard won numerous awards, including a 1995 GNN Best of the Net award. [5] By mid-1996, a number of sites had developed E-cards. [6] By mid-October 1996, directly emailable greeting cards and postcards ("Email Express") were developed and introduced by Awesome Cards, based on new capabilities introduced in the Netscape 3.0 browser.
National Postcard Week is an annual event to promote the use of postcards, held in the first full week of May since 1984. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Started in the US, it is also celebrated by deltiologists in other countries. [ 3 ]