According to an article in Metro we no longer send postcards – we upload photos to social media instead. I do both. Yes, I put photos on facebook if I’m somewhere I can get a signal (I tend to frequent places without reliable wifi) but sending a postcard is different isn’t it? For one thing it’s personal – it’s saying “I’m thinking of YOU” not all my friends, all my family group, but YOU in particular and even if the message is banal and cramped I like to think the recipient cares that I thought of them.
The other side of sending and receiving postcards is what you do with them. Display for a while of course and some people keep them as collections of antique cards demonstrate but if you’re not into keeping cards yet hesitate to throw them away Susan Woolf has the perfect answer:
Sudan Church Association donations:
Thank-you to those of you who have left stamps and postcards in the parish office (for Inigo Woolf’s in-tray). They can be sold to raise badly needed funds for the Sudan Church Association. The volunteers who sell them know which dealers want various types of postcards.
The Association can now accept any type of stamp. Unfortunately, postcards which have had the stamps removed cannot be sold.
Greeting cards are not acceptable. I am happy to post your donations to the relevant volunteer collectors. However, if you would rather post them yourself, I can supply addresses.
Do you send postcards?
Susan Woolf