The renaissance of the postcard! Anyone who thinks the postcard no longer has a place in the digital world needs to rethink. Postcards are coming back into fashion in many different places.
There were times when it was customary and almost a duty to send a postcard from a vacation or a trip – with more or less meaningful greetings. Until recently, sending postcards and picture postcards seemed to have almost completely gone out of fashion. These handwritten greetings by post were and are actually much more personal, not least because it is more time-consuming to write them.
But who wouldn’t be happy to receive a postcard and a kind greeting in their daily mail (again)?
Do you also collect postcards?
Postcards are surprisingly coming back into fashion in very different places. And not just because many people collect postcards and stick them on the fridge, as is often the case with the Donaubergland postcards happens. For twenty years now, these have practically become a trademark and are still in great demand at every trade fair.
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Postcrossing is the new magic word
Postcrossing is a new movement that now connects more than 800,000 people in more than 200 countries around the world. And the Internet is the basis for this.
Exactly twenty years ago, a computer scientist in Portugal, who loves postcards himself, came up with the idea of developing a platform that would allow people from all over the world who were complete strangers to send each other postcards.
And how does it work?
The principle is quite simple: all you have to do is register on the platform with your address and undertake to send one postcard to a member of the platform for every one you receive.
The number of members is rising steadily. According to the operator, more than 80 million postcards have been sent all over the world so far. What a beautiful story!
