No more postcards.
By DINNERLADY
@lazydaizee (6738)
United Kingdom
September 8, 2019 6:02am CST
When I was young I used to love going on holiday to the seaside ,and one of the things I would enjoy doing while I was away , was to go to the local shops and choose postcards to send home to my family and friends.
Of course nowadays people do not send postcards because they use their phones to keep in touch with everybody. I think this is a shame because I used to love buying and sending postcards, as well as receiving postcards from other people. I also used to collect postcards in a scrapbook to remind me of where people had been on their holidays.
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@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
8 Sep 19
@lazydaizee I'll tell you where I'm going when you've added the name of your country. I'm even going to add a photo of a famous sight. :-)
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
9 Sep 19
@MALUSE Look forward to seeing that. I live in England by the way. I could not add this to my profile page because the drop down thing kept going back to worldwide.
@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
8 Sep 19
I hope you enjoy your holiday, are you going somewhere nice? It is good to hear that some people do still send postcards.
@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
9 Sep 19
I think they are out of touch with the way we always do things. I suppose it is easier for them to use their mobiles. But buying and sending cards , is one of the fun things about going on holiday, along with sun,sea,food,walking etc.
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
8 Sep 19
I still send postcards. but not nearly as many as I used to. My son usually takes photos which he sends to a company in the Channel Islands (via the Internet, of course) who print the photos and a message and the address on the other side and then send them by ordinary mail to the recipient. We also had a hilariously over-coloured postcard from friends holidaying in Greece. It was the blatant and amateurish colouring of an already coloured photo which prompted them to choose it, of course, but it was a post-card, nevertheless. It's a LONG time since anyone sent us a picture of anywhere with an inked cross over a hotel window with the words "We are here"!
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
9 Sep 19
That sounds like a good idea that your son has, you get family photos and a message sent just for you. I used to like going to those shops along the beach and looking at the joke postcards, often they would make me laugh out loud.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
3 Oct 19
I did look at the postcards for sale on my recent trip to New Hampshire, I thought about buying some to share with friends here on MyLot.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
3 Oct 19
@lazydaizee I went last weekend and yes, I had a great time.
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
3 Oct 19
That would have been an interesting discussion, when did you go to New Hampshire and did you have a good trip?
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
6 Oct 19
@BelleStarr How long did you go for and where did you stay.?
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
9 Sep 19
@lazydaizee I wish I had kept mine.
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
10 Sep 19
@HazySue Me too, I had loads of them. They were mostly from the UK because people did not go abroad on holiday like they do nowadays. But it is nice to see old postcards of towns because many of the original buildings have gone now.
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
9 Sep 19
Many people have kept their postcard collections from when they were young. Now some of these postcards have become collectable .
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@aureategloom (8344)
• Bosnia And Herzegovina
9 Sep 19
i still buy postcards and small gifts for my family and friends when i go somewhere.
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@aureategloom (8344)
• Bosnia And Herzegovina
9 Sep 19
@lazydaizee not really, my circle is pretty small 
and i buy postcards with scenery, because i could buy those "joke postcards" wherever.
and i buy postcards with scenery, because i could buy those "joke postcards" wherever.1 person likes this
@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
10 Sep 19
@aureategloom I suppose it is nicer to buy postcards with scenery because then your family can see where you have been and maybe talk about it when you get back.
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
9 Sep 19
That is nice , I expect they enjoy receiving them from you. Do you have many to send when you go on holiday.? Do you buy postcards with scenery or joke postcards?
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@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
8 Sep 19
My daughter went on a school sky trip last winter and she sent me a postcard. I found that really special and charming. Nobody else sends me a postcard these days. I got some postcards from my trip that I went on. I put them in an album to remember my happy travels. These days people send emails or photos by Internet.
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@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
9 Sep 19
@lazydaizee In 2009 I went family and friends postcards from Cape Town in South Africa. I think the staff must have stolen them. Yes, some people save money by taking the postcards back home to give out.
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
9 Sep 19
It is nice to get a postcard from somebody you love because you can keep it and cherish the memory. Sometimes friends would send me postcards from their holiday and the post would be very slow. I would get the card on a Friday and they would be home on the Saturday. We would joke that they could save money on postage by bringing the card back with them instead of sending it.
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
9 Sep 19
@maximax8 That is very strange for the staff to steal your postcards. Perhaps they were really poor and were able to sell the postage stamps . Where did you stay, was it a hotel or a hostel or maybe a privately run guest house?
@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
9 Sep 19
I always loved to get postcards when I was a child. It was also a way to let friends and family know that the holidaymakers had arrived safe . This was in the days before everybody had phones, even home phones.
@dgobucks226 (34405)
•
8 Oct 19
Yes, I agree! Sending a postcard definitely provides a more personal touch.
@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
8 Sep 19
Do you think it is a shame that nobody sends postcards anymore. I often wonder what happened to the factories that printed them. Perhaps they have all closed down unless they went into printing other products. Maybe the same thing will happen with greetings cards in the future.
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@Maria24 (2661)
• United States
8 Sep 19
@lazydaizee i hope it dosen't happened with greeting cards..i wonder to.
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
8 Sep 19
@Maria24 It would be a shame if people stopped using greetings cards because that would put many people out of work. Lots of card shops and stationery shops would lose customers and have to close down.
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