Tips & how-to
Cropping your photo to 10x15 without cutting off heads
Vertical photo, 10x15 postcard: how to crop without losing heads or scenery, and keep what matters most once your photo is printed.
Tips, ideas and little stories about postcards and the joy of writing to the people you love.
Tips & how-to
Vertical photo, 10x15 postcard: how to crop without losing heads or scenery, and keep what matters most once your photo is printed.
Postal culture
A monument, a face, a rocket or a comic-book hero: every stamp tells the story of its country and its time. A short history of these travelling squares.
Destinations & travel
Colourful stalls, morning light, real life: the local market is often the best photo of a trip. Here's how to get it right and send it as a postcard.
Destinations & travel
Floating mist, mirror-still water, low golden light: simple tips for photographing a lake at dawn and turning it into a real postcard.
Occasions & feelings
A photo card to thank your wedding guests: which picture to choose, what to write on the back and when to send it.
Occasions & feelings
Two or three well-chosen sentences beat a polite get well soon. What actually comforts someone who is ill or recovering, and why paper works better.
Occasions & feelings
Tie, mug, corkscrew: your dad already has too many. A real photo postcard, printed and mailed to him, outlasts anything else you could buy.
Tips & how-to
A child getting mail with their own name on it is a small event. Here is how to choose your words and your photo so the card gets kept.
Tips & how-to
Sharp eyes, soft light, a simple background: practical tips to nail a photo of your dog or cat and turn it into a postcard that makes people smile.
Postal culture
Yellow in France, red in London, blue in the US: a quick world tour of postboxes, an everyday object that says a lot about its country.
Postal culture
From collection to the morning round, discover the real journey of a postcard: yellow postbox, sorting centre, postmark and doorstep delivery.
Destinations & travel
Grey snow and shadowed faces? Your camera gets fooled by all that white. Two simple tweaks for bright winter photos, worth printing as a postcard.
Destinations & travel
Narrow lanes, old stone, evening light: simple tips to photograph a country village and turn your photo into a postcard worth sending.
Occasions & feelings
Office cards get signed in a rush and forgotten just as fast. Here's how a personal photo postcard makes a colleague's retirement truly memorable.
Occasions & feelings
A group text gets buried fast. A photo card with your new address ends up on the fridge, so your favourite people always know where to write.
Tips & how-to
Nine people to write to, one single message: the simple way to send a real postcard to your whole family in a few minutes, not a whole evening.
Tips & how-to
Four lines, not one more: how to find the right words on the back of a postcard, without clichés and without staring blankly at your pen.
Postal culture
Sending grandma a postcard from your holidays is a ritual that crossed the generations. Why it still works, and how to keep it alive today.
Postal culture
In films and novels alike, the postcard says what characters cannot. A look at the movies and books where it plays a real role.
Postal culture
Deltiology is the art of collecting vintage postcards. Where the passion comes from, and how to get started without losing your weekends.
Postal culture
A card in the letterbox, and the whole day shifts. What makes paper mail such a quiet pleasure to receive.
Postal culture
From the rural postman walking thirty kilometres a day to the electric-bike round: what has changed, and what hasn't moved an inch.
Postal culture
Mailbox full of ads, phone full of notifications: the postcard is back because it gives you something a screen never will.
Postal culture
From 1869 Vienna to the photos on your phone: the story of a small piece of card that has outlived every technology meant to bury it.
Destinations & travel
Instead of an album buried in your phone, send yourself a card at every stop. You come home to a real travel journal you never had to make.
Destinations & travel
Quiet streets, morning light, telling details: simple tips to photograph a city and turn your favourite shot into a postcard worth keeping.
Destinations & travel
Scale, low-angle light, framing: practical tips so your mountain landscape keeps all its grandeur once printed as a real 10x15 postcard.
Destinations & travel
Turn your road trip into a story: send a postcard from every stop and build a travel diary that arrives by mail, one stage at a time.
Destinations & travel
That golden late-day light turns an ordinary holiday photo into a postcard. When to catch it, how to frame it, and why it prints so beautifully.
Destinations & travel
On holiday by the water? Here's what to point your camera at to turn your best sea photo into a real printed postcard, sent for you.
Occasions & feelings
A bouquet wilts in a week. A photo card, your mum keeps for years. Why it lands better, and how to get it right.
Occasions & feelings
Someone close is going through a hard time and you don't know what to say? Here's how to write a card that truly comforts, simply.
Occasions & feelings
Between the group text fired off at midnight and the card standing on the sideboard, there is a world of difference. Why paper wishes still hold up.
Occasions & feelings
A congratulations text is forgotten by Friday. Here is how to write a card for an exam, a diploma or a driving licence that gets kept for years.
Occasions & feelings
A card sent for no reason at all is the one that lands hardest. Why it works, what to write when there's nothing to celebrate, and who to send it to first.
Occasions & feelings
A text vanishes down the feed, a postcard gets kept for years. How to write a real thank you after a gift, a dinner or a favour.
Occasions & feelings
When you love someone far away, a real card in the mailbox changes everything. Here's how to turn it into a ritual that lasts.
Occasions & feelings
Grandmother's Day is coming up. Here's why a real photo postcard, dropped into her mailbox, touches your grandma far more than anything else.
Occasions & feelings
Announce a birth or congratulate new parents with a photo card: simple, sincere words for a moment that deserves more than a text message.
Occasions & feelings
Someone you love is celebrating their birthday far away? Here's how to find the right words and send a card that really counts.
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Address format, delivery times, postage: what changes when your postcard crosses a border — and how to make sure it arrives safely.
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Good news: your phone is more than enough for a crisp 10x15 print. Here are the real traps to avoid before you print your photo.
Tips & how-to
A postcard you receive is a little treasure. Here's how to keep your postcards from fading and show them off nicely at home.
Tips & how-to
A text is read in three seconds and forgotten just as fast. A postcard gets kept. Here's what paper really has that pixels never will.
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A clear, complete address is all it takes for your postcard to reach the right letterbox. Here's how to write it so it never gets lost.
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Portrait, landscape or group shot: the photo you pick changes everything depending on who opens the mailbox. Here's how to get it right.
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Light, framing, subject: a few simple tips to pick the photo that will look best once printed as a real postcard.
Tips & how-to
Blurry shots, tight framing, bad light: the most common mistakes on a photo postcard, and the simple habits that make one worth keeping.