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How to Send a Real Postcard (Via Regular Mail) from Your Desktop PC

by Will Safer on November 4, 2008 at 11:34 AM

Cheeky monkey.

If you spend a lot of time – maybe too much time – trolling around social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook, you may forget to drop the occasional line to your family and friends who aren't connected to the Internet.

Save yourself a trip to the post office with Touchnote, an English company that lets you upload images to its Web site, craft a message with clever dialog or "thought" balloons, and mail away a custom postcard anywhere in the world for only £1.99 English pounds (about $3.25) per card plus postage, which comes to about 99 cents for delivery to the U.S. Discounts on cards and postage are available if you order large batches. For those of us in the the States, delivery time is about five days, but if you're in England, your card should find its way to its recipient by the very next day. Nifty!

The image you upload can't be more than 5-megabytes (MB), and since this has to go through the regular mail, we suggest keeping the content clean. (The post office is sensitive, you know.) [From: Mashable.com]

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