Hey, did I send you a postcard? I won a whole pack of them from Trusty Pony and for grins, I mailed them all out to my Twitter followers. I hear the postcards came out pretty nice, though in retrospect, I wish I’d mailed one to myself just to see first hand.
Happily, now you can win a set of DIY postcards from Hazel Mail. I’m here to tell you, it’s a cool service — you upload your photo to their site, type in your note and the address, and off they go to ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD! No kidding! I sent mine to South Korea and Holland and lots of places around the US. Make someone’s day, send them a postcard.
Just leave a comment and hey, if you wanted to drop a link to your post that espouses the wonder of postcards, that would be fun for me, but it’s not required. Only one entry, please, duplicates will be disqualified and don’t think I can’t see your IP address, nerds. I’ll close comments next Friday morning, July 10th, when I fall out of bed and wander to my desk. I get to pick five winners, count them FIVE, so odds are in your favor.
Postcards. They are cool and wonderful and happy. Win some, then send some.
I’m all about the odds being in my favor, the odder the better.
I love postcards. I buy them pretty much everywhere I go, even though I take tons of pictures, because postcards have the perfect shot. I also have been collecting used postcards, particularly vintage Canadian from scenic places and places I’ve lived.
There is something great about a message from long ago, addressed to someone who lived there, once, who had an aunt or a friend who thought of them, someone who opened the mailbox one day and got a postcard.
I just love ’em.
Haha Bikejuju – I like the odder the better!
Hazel was my grandmother’s name, so I’ll always remember the website. Count me in!
Yay for hazelmail!!
How cool is that? I love postcards. So far the odds are still in my favor…
Postcards! A dear friend of mine of over 30 years and I have this habit of sending each other the ugliest of postcards. You know them: the ones that are supposed to be humorous, but fall short, the ones from the old communist countries where tourism was shunned, the ones of photos that were taken before Photoshop was invented.
Like the idea of HazelMail and will give it a try.
I’ve been running a postcard project for a while. Basically folks fill in the form and I send them out a postcard. I’ve used a service for that a couple of times, but mostly I’ve been doing it by hand.
My URL is: http://www.toddrjordan.com/thebroadbrush/postcards/
I’ve sent postcards all over the world.
Another great place for exchanging postcards is postcrossing.com. Fun and they provide the addresses to send to.
Cheers and I hope I win.
I love postcards!
I send our daughter a postcard from each of my trips. She has them lining her bedroom wall.
My friend Sherry Wickwire wrote Postcards in peril for the SF Chronicle, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/10/TR6MUGG5P.DTL
I love postcards, too, and so does Jessamyn West of librarian.net, jessamyn.com, etc and if I win, I’ll surely send her (and you) one as payback for the ones you’ve sent me! Not that I’m trying to get an unfair advantage or anything.
Nice photo!
Especially for me, cause I collect postcards. I sometimes joke that it is like collecting stamps, but big stamps 😉
I am an avid postcard distributor. On trips for business or pleasure especially when far afield I send postcards or cards to family and friends. Most recent batch I sent was during our vacation to Turkey in April. We visited four different parts of the country and I sent cards from each.
Love the idea of sending personalized postcards! Thank you for the great giveaway!
I love sending postcards from my travels to my friends and family back home. But I also enjoy sending a postcard to myself from the places I visit. I’m terrible at journaling and it’s a way to remember my travels in a fun and surprising way. 🙂
I love sending and receiving postcards! I don’t get a lot of cool mail, just bills and spam mail. So on the occasion I am sent something colorful and from the heart, it makes my day!!
Post cards never get old – have you ever used Postcrossing? It’s a neat way to get and send postcards from people all over the world.
http://www.foxnomad.com/2009/04/03/send-and-recieve-postcards-from-random-people-postcrossing
and
postcrossing.com
How cool would it be to be able to send a postcard
with a photo you took that day. Sign me up!
What a great idea! Love it! I haven’t written about postcards but I did write about a telegram service:
http://globetrottingbride.blogspot.com/2009/04/wedding-correspondence-send-it-by-e.html
Very cool! What better way to tell folks back home that you are thinking of them (or just being a show-off) while away on an exotic vacation. 🙂
how fun is this? i love the photo with the postcards on the line. we’ll have to try hazelmail. often we forget abt the postcards when we’re traveling, and then quick do them in the airport. sigh.
Yay, postcards. I can’t get enough of them. Or maybe I can, I’ve got a stack waiting for action. Anywho, I’d love to try this out.
I feel like a broken record, but gee, this does sound FUN!
I’ve collected postcards since I was a little girl. Would be fun to create my own!
I use postcards to keep in touch with friend from as far back as 1st grade. If nothing else, they get a postcard and a Christmas card from me every year. I love that Hazel sends them for you. I have this weird thing about not mailing stuff…
Choose me! Me! Me! Me!
I’m also a fan of postcards and subscribe to the entertaining PostCrossing (postcrossing.com) where you send and receive cards from complete strangers around the world. I’ve cards from Belarus, Ukraine, west China and Cameroon among others. Some of the cards are well chosen and quirky as well. This service also sounds a really good idea.
I would love to win these. I think it’s a neat idea.