A postcard is an addition to the main gift, so it is often bought at the last moment and without high requirements for design - if only it fits the theme of the holiday. However, if you take care of purchasing a postcard in advance, you can find a copy that will overshadow the gift itself.
Instructions
Step 1
If you urgently need to send a postcard to another locality, you can buy it directly at the post office. In addition, you will always find several copies in shops within walking distance. Large supermarkets will offer roughly the same set of fairly standard options for major holidays: birthdays, New Years, March 8 and February 23.
Step 2
Stationery stores, gift shops and specialized bookstores have several large shelves, on which, in addition to ordinary postcards, you can find quite rare ones - author's, collectible, hand-made. In second-hand bookstores one comes across old single copies for the corresponding price.
Step 3
Continue to search for the postcard on the Internet. On the websites of second-hand bookstores, there are sets of collectible postcards issued at the beginning of the last century. You can browse through all the collections and order your favorite with home delivery.
Step 4
Browse banks of e-cards by typing "postcards" into any search engine. Pick up an animated picture or complemented by sound effects. Also, such sites provide an opportunity to make a postcard online, using the clipart and tools of the simplest graphic editor. All postcards are sorted in similar catalogs by type of holiday, style and author.
Step 5
Look for communities of DIY postcards. They share not only experience, but also the result. After reviewing the author's work, contact nm and order your favorite postcard. You can also ask to modify it or create a new version according to your idea. Sometimes the authors do not sell their creations, but exchange them or arrange a "holiday just like that", sending a batch of postcards to everyone.
Step 6
A more organized scheme of unselfish exchange is established in the postcrossing communities. Postcrossing is exchanging postcards with strangers. Register on one of these sites (for example, postcrossing.com), write your mailing address and turn on the random selection of recipients. You will be offered several pages of the same users from anywhere in the world and a special code for each of them. Write on the postcard any text to a stranger, add the code and send it by real, "live" mail. When the card arrives, the author will register a code combination of numbers and letters in the system and upload the scanned gift to the network. At this moment, your mailing address will be sent to the same randomly selected user, and after a while you will find a postcard sent from a distant country in your mailbox.
