Sending a postcard when traveling

On a sad note, my father just past away in mid June(only 90 years old}, and my Mother about 4 years ago at age 85. While starting the process of of cleaning out our parents home, I found a cabinet shelf in my mother's den that had EVERY single postcard I sent her going back to when I was like 10 years old, I am now 54. Postcards from summercamp, boarding school, and every trip I have taken around the USA and world, not only that, in order that I sent it. Just amazed me.

So, the question is, do YOU still send postcards the old fashion way to friends and family, or is it just send a pic to their emails or "social media website's of choice" to show you been "there"?

Yes, I do!

And, similarly at the end of last year when I cleared out my late mother's house, I found that she had done exactly the same thing form 1979 onwards. I've kept these postcards and given them to my grandchildren and I now send them postcards on each trip. They've also got my foreign coins and the elder one is getting a world map jigsaw for his birthday so that he can see where the postcards are from.

I haven't sent a postcard in a long time, but you've inspired me to do it next time I'm away somewhere!

Hello!
I just send photos via messengers and social networks

There is a lively market for old postcards. I have some that my grandfather sent to my grandmother around 1905. I've gotten as much as $50 for one of the really old ones. But that was a special one of Hatteras Lighthouse (which my grandfather had climbed - as he said on the card) and the buyer was writing a book on the lighthouse.

I do still sometimes send postcards - not as much as I did in 1964 when I traveled to Europe with stick on address labels that I had printed out for people I should send cards to. And my mother would buy, but not send cards of places she visited especially where she was unable to take a photo of the thing pictured in the card or where she wanted the details of where she had taken a photo which she thought she might not remember.

Absolutely! It is one of my favorite thing to do while abroad, looking for cards and then finding a nice place to sit down and write them

I also like receiving and am lucky to have likeminded friends who occasionally send me cards too

I have elderly relatives who don't use the internet, so yes, I still send postcards too. However, I've noticed that the post is slowing down: it routinely takes several months for an airmail letter or card to get from one side of the world to the other. The cursus publicus, the postal system of the Roman Empire, was a lot faster than the system we enjoy today. So it is really easy to beat the postcards home. It doesn't seem to matter though. They are still appreciated.

Does anyone still use airmail?

Postcards aren't as plentiful as they used to be. It can be difficult at times to find one. I now rarely send postcards but instead share photos and videos via the Internet, often as quickly as I take them with my mobile phone.

I used to print out labels to people we wanted to send a postcard to and then would send them as we traveled. Haven't done that in a while though. We all tend to keep in touch via messaging. Also, all the older family members who used to get the cards are now gone.

I do have lots of postcards dating back to the early 1900s that I inherited from my grandparents. I would never part with one of those. My family used to keep in touch with postcards made from photos of themselves or their families, kind of antique selfies. The messages are just sharing things they have been doing, family news.