Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Gorgeous_bird on July 12, 2011, 22:20:16 PM
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nick saw this in the Thomas cook magazine on the way back from Turkey on Saturday. A free app called Postcards, you take a picture, add your text, address it and send it. The picture is turned into a postcard and posted within the UK. I think it's a quality idea and would have loved to use it whilst on my holidays. Will do next time though.
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I'll have a bit of that, cheers! :)
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Its a really good idea for an app - hope they do well with it
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Who pays for the postage?
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You pay 99p for the service and printing, which includes postage for each card.
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I think it's great- no standing waiting to buy a stamp in a post office, no arriving home before the postcard -if it ever gets to it's destination and most importantly ofers a really personal image of your holiday. Probably a postcard and postage to the UK would cost at least 99p.
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And I'm sure those sweet hotel receptionists who promise to post them for you throw them straight in the bin
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Sounds a good un to me :)
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I thought at first that I do not need this service as I can always e-mail people. Then I thought of the people we know who do not have e-mail or rarely use it, and suddenly this is looking like a winning idea.
Checked out the site and it is available as an App for Android phones :)as well as Iphone, but does not look like it offers a PC version:(
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I often send a picture by photo messaging but it costs quite a bit when you are abroad. So this seems like a good idea as long as you can get it to them for free (no roaming data costs).
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It gets a little clearer if you check the site. 99p is for postcards sent from the UK - it's £1.49 if you are out of the UK. Maybe I'll stick with my current method for now but I'll have to check what the costs are compared.
http://www.ecards.co.uk/postcards/
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Seems o2 charge me 25p to send a picture message from abroad so I guess I'll stick to sending them via my phone and adding the words as I do now. I can send 6 for the same charge as Postcards.
Nice idea though - if you want a hard copy picture sending.
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Yes but as UBT says, not everyone can receive picture messages. Also people often like getting a postcard. I'm looking forward to baffling my old mum - she'll never understand any of it, how it came so quick, how it doesn't have a foreign stamp on it & how they sell postcards in foreign countries with our kids in the photo - priceless :D
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Originally posted by Scunner
Yes but as UBT says, not everyone can receive picture messages. Also people often like getting a postcard. I'm looking forward to baffling my old mum - she'll never understand any of it, how it came so quick, how it doesn't have a foreign stamp on it & how they sell postcards in foreign countries with our kids in the photo - priceless :D
Ditto on the 'my old mum' receiving a card:D
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Originally posted by stoop
It gets a little clearer if you check the site. 99p is for postcards sent from the UK - it's £1.49 if you are out of the UK. Maybe I'll stick with my current method for now but I'll have to check what the costs are compared.
http://www.ecards.co.uk/postcards/
and the office wall. I have been to some lovely places but there are no postcards of my trips as I cannot be hassled with the buying of a stamp etc - and it's 99p to send TO the Uk and £1.49 to send it to the rest of the world. Not £1.49 to send it if you are outside of the UK. 8)
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Yes Stoop, you must have been some financial advisor with your understanding of pricing :D
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Read it again and you will see wht I was a very successful Financial Adviser :)
PostCards is a FREE application which any image can be instantly made into a postcard, printed & posted to anywhere in the world for only 99p for the UK and £1.49 for anywhere else.
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Originally posted by stoop
Read it again and you will see wht I was a very successful Financial Adviser :)
PostCards is a FREE application which any image can be instantly made into a postcard, printed & posted to anywhere in the world for only 99p for the UK and £1.49 for anywhere else.
Correct, and that is not what you said in your earlier post - yes, I can quite possibly see how you did well - I can hear them, "yeah I got my pension with Slippery Stoop" ;)
Initially you said it was 99p for postcards sent from the UK, whereas it is 99p for postcards sent to the UK. Nice change of view Stoop :D
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Scunner -I'd like to know if you used the app whilst you were on your holiday in Spain?
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Sorry I missed your post GB. Yes, we used it and it is as good as I had hoped. Easy to use, easy to pay (Paypal) although you can't store your paypal name/password which is a little bit of a pain. We sent ours 2nd class and all were received and normally within 3 days. On returning home we saw a few we had sent and they are really excellent. People seemed to love getting them and those who didn't understand how it was done put it down to "you know Keith and his computers"!!! One lady told Steph that the picture "really looked like you"!!!
In summary, it's fab - not only the novelty of sending a postcard with you & co on it, but the speed of delivery (and from some countries the fact it arrives at all) - the price (cheaper than postcard + stamp in some countries), not having to find those, and then a postbox - ultimately we sent way more postcards than we usually do, and that sums it up really!
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All very well but there's nothing like recieving in the post a postcard with some wrinkled old Turkish dear on the front... Or the tortoise with a no entry sign on it's bottom... or that map of the world with a bubble stating "I am here" over Turkey.
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Excellent I have used it, didnt see the end result but the recipient was chuffed
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This app appears to have vanished - anyone know if it has a new name, or is there a decent alternative?
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Think it's called By Post .
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Thanks Fran, I gave up and downloaded an alternative called Stannp, seems quite good.