Monday, 19 October 2009

What's Better, Custom Postcards Or Traditional Postcards?

By Mitzi H. Hewitt

In today's digital millennium, there are many things that can be created online and customized to a tee. The matter of custom postcards versus traditional postcards highlights the fact that the Internet has made it extremely easy to design, create and then mail out custom cards rather than mailing out old-style postcards that are fated to eventually become extinct. Customization of postcards is a great improvement in technology over the last decade, by the way.

Normally, people can recite a hundred different reasons for why they went with traditional postcards when they were on vacation. Perhaps they were trapped in the souvenir store during a rainstorm and decided to grab a handful. That's no longer necessary, as new digital technologies have made it possible to personalize a postcard to send out that is different from the ones sent out by thousands of people over the decades.

Chances are, there are plenty of photographs or images that have been taken over the years and or have just recently been taken on a vacation that would make for a far better postcard than what is normally available in the same old souvenir shops that one seems to find anywhere one goes to vacation.

There are a number of quality websites on the Internet that specialize in helping people create custom postcards. Usually, good websites give a person a way to not only turn any photo into a postcard but also a way to print them, put stamps on them and then mail them out all without you having to lick a stamp or drive to a post office.

Just go online and enter in a phrase such as "custom postcard websites" and go through the results that will be returned by the search engine. Look for a site that can do the above (create card, stamp card, mail card out) and that will walk you step-by-step through how to create custom postcards in a fast, efficient and cost-effective way.

Any good postcard website has a way for a user to take an image or photo and upload it into the website. Also, it will help the user take a photograph or image and play with it until it looks really nice. Most all of these websites also have areas where images can be stored into a library and also where cards made by the user in the past can be viewed.

Once the image has been uploaded into the system, any good website will take the user by the hand and show him or her how to format the image or photograph to the point where the final product can be looked at from both the front side and back side. On the back, a user can even select the type of font that will be used for the address and any messages.

Once all of those processes are completed -- and there aren't too many of them -- it's just a matter of deciding how it's going to be mailed out. Quality websites also take care of this and will walk the user through the steps necessary to have stamps placed on these cards and then mailed to whoever they wish them to be mailed to. Considering that custom postcards are so easy to make these days, why go with traditional?

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