Monday, October 19, 2009

What's Better, Custom Postcards Or Traditional Postcards?

By Mitzi H. Hewitt

What's better, custom postcards or traditional postcards? The answer -- when looked at from a few different viewpoints -- will be that a custom postcard will definitely be better and that people probably will make use of traditional postcards less and less as time goes on. This is because the impact the Internet has on everything makes it possible to create items such as postcards that were not able to be created online just a decade ago.

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.

For a fact, there are a number of high quality websites on the Internet that can help people take images and photos and create custom-designed postcards relatively easily. All of the good sites have a way to assist a person in not only creating the card but also getting stamps put onto it and then mailing it out all without going near a post office or even a real-world postcard.

Usually, the only thing that's needed to be done is to go online and then spend a few moments of Internet time at a search engine. Find an appropriate phrase such as "custom postcards online" and then go through the search engine's results. What is being looked for is a site that works hand-in-hand with the user in the creation and then sending out of a postcard.

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, the best websites have extremely user-friendly formatting tools that users can engage to get the best out of the photo along with a way to see what the postcard will look like at the end of the process. These will be front and back images, and even the font and style of writing on the back can be selected for best effect.

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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