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One time I sent a postcard, from Cabo San Lucas, and my niece received it 6 months later. Between 19, about 750 million postcards were sent in Britain each year more than two million a day. Unfortunately, I can’t send them out of the U.S. Yet, at the turn of the 20th Century, postcards were email, text and WhatsApp messages rolled into one the first medium of mass personal communication. Or, private message me on our blog’s Facebook page. If you would like a postcard from a surprise location somewhere in the U.S., send me an email – – with your name and mailing address and I’ll send you a postcard. 50 OFF CARDS & INVITES Get your hands on a customizable Wish You Were Here postcard from Zazzle. I love receiving them and I love sending them, so I’m looking forward to mailing a few as we travel. As you know Abi and I will soon be hitting the road for a 2-month road trip around this vast country of ours and I’m all about the postcard. If you order is urgent please purchase through Hive Books. Today’s society, as we all know, is all about the hurried fulfillment of right now and how fast can it happen? Remember the good old days of, “Having a wonderful time, wish you were here?” Our staff are taking a well earned break and no publications will be dispatched until Monday 18th October. The process has taken a back seat to text messages and emails. It takes time to write a postcard, address it, adhere a stamp and mail it on its way. With Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google+ alike, wait – not so much Google+ cuz there’s nothing going on over there. Hear from the exhibition’s curator Georgina Tomlinson and our Visitor. Wish You Were Here celebrates the iconic role the postcard has played in connecting people for 151 years. ‘Heb Isles’ operated there from 1986 until the current Hebrides entered service in 2001. Jarrold’s postcard of Hebridean Isles at Lochmaddy is one of the most engaging commercial portraits of a vessel on the Uig triangle since the route became part of the Hebridean ferry network in 1964. I’m not exactly sure why that is, but at the same time I am pretty sure it has a lot to do with the age of technology. To celebrate 'Wish You Were Here: 151 Years of the British Postcard' we are sharing unique stories and activities from our collection around the theme of postcards. Wish you were here: postcards from the Uig triangle. Like so many other things such as hand-written letters and thank you cards, sending postcards has become a lo st art. Why bother waiting when sending texts with pictures, video, emails by Blackberry will rub in the fact that "We're on Holiday and You're Not!" with greater immediacy.ĭo you still enjoy sending and receiving postcards or do you feel they are out of date and inconvenient in today's electronic age? When did you last send a postcard and who to? Leave a comment below to let us know what you think and we will publish the best on the CNN Business Traveller Web site.When was the last time you sent a postcard to someone while you were traveling? For that matter, when was the last time you received a postcard from someone who was traveling? The service says it processes around 135 million postcards every year, 30 million more than in 2003.īut it's a fact that some people do sniff at snail mail tales from the tropics. According to the Royal Mail, which runs Britain's postal service, postcards are more popular today than they were five years ago. Postcards in the sense we now know them are picture postcards, that is, a picture, usually a scene from the. Many of us still value the traditional postcard. It is most often associated with postcards though. And hoping the postman back home wouldn't mind the paella stains all over the address.
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Saucy for the colleagues at work, respectful to the relatives, begrudging to the next door neighbor.Īnd always: How to write as much as possible in the tiny white square without spreading over in to the address section. In the "good old days" we sat and crafted our cards. Where does this online explosion leave the humble postcard? Yet, we book our holidays online, we check in online, and, now we even write about our travels online - emails and blogs packed with photos, video clips and every conceivable detail of our travels.