Once an indispensable medium of mass communication, the good old postcard has fallen almost completely into obscurity due to the Internet and other modern media of today. For over 1,000 years, the postcard has been a medium regularly sent from point A to point B to convey news, congratulations, vacation greetings, or messages. In the digital age, the postcard has lost its former significance as a visual and communication medium. It has already passed the peak of its product life cycle and is increasingly being replaced by newer, more modern products. Postcard mailings have been in sharp decline since the early 2000s. According to a British survey by ITV.com, the number of postcards sent dropped by 75% between 1997 and 2007. This is due to the shift toward faster means of communication, primarily email, text messages, and social media. Today, postcards are sometimes used solely for their special, personal touch. Nevertheless, postcards are still sent on various occasions because they do have a certain personal character. www.myTriPic.com is giving the postcard a new lease on life: the good old postcard, reloaded.
Design Your Own Postcards on myTriPic.com
To use myTriPic.com, you'll need to create a free user account, which is very easy and can be done in just a few steps. Once you've done that, you can get started designing your personalized postcard:
- Select and Upload Image
- Adding the text and positioning the individual characters and the image
- Write a greeting and add the recipient's information (name and address)
- Take advantage of a variety of options to give your postcard an even more personal touch
And that’s it—your postcard is ready and can now be sent anywhere. You can also design multiple postcards at once—the save feature ensures that the cards you’ve already designed won’t be lost. Payment is made via the standard online methods: credit card, PayPal, or SofortÜberweisung. When you consider the price of a postcard—1.79 EUR—and factor in that shipping is already included, the new “postcard reloaded” is every bit as good as the old, traditional version.
Design Your Own Invitations
Just as you can design your own postcards, you can of course repurpose them and use them as invitations. Quick to create, lovingly and individually designed, the invitations from myTriPic.com are significantly cheaper than those you’d buy at a print shop or stationery store. That’s because you still have to factor in shipping costs of at least 60 cents for Austria and 75 cents for the European Union. As mentioned earlier, these costs are already included on myTriPic.com!
Christmas, New Year's, and birthdays—the perfect occasion for a postcard
Postcards remain a popular choice, especially for various occasions such as Christmas, New Year’s, Easter, or birthdays. After all, they’re still a much more personal gesture than an electronically sent greeting, which may not be read until days later. And when they’re personalized, recipients are twice as happy to hold this little piece of cardboard in their hands.
