How many postcards are sent each year

Oh and yes I want a postcard. I would love a postcard from as far away from where I live UK as possible! Preferably one with a beautiful photo on the front ;. Will surely send some actual myself, and also use the portal fir sending out memories often now.

The postal dept needs work as well. So glad we could inspire you to start sending postcards again! I used to buy a bunch of extra for myself as well, and had quite the wall mosaic going on in my bedroom from like 18 — 22 :D. Postcards rock Meg. Being 43 I recall days of folks sending postcards as prime means of communication.

Maybe a long distance call if they spent some dough but usually just a buck or few and off went the postcard. Mindful, thoughtful and loving. Throwing it back sometimes feels fun, right? Yes they do Ryan! I used to send postcards as the main form of communication too!

Lol speaks to our age I guess :D. Hi Sharon! Shoot me an email to megan mappingmegan. This is exactly what I wanted! And the first postcard goes to myself. After that you need to find a post office, leaving your city exploration behind, and pray that you somehow reach the right counter with little knowledge of the local language and the staff understands you as well.

On our recent trip of Europe, we visited 14 countries and in most cases the stamps costed more than the postcards. Stamps, how many, how much, where … oh oh! I agree with you on preserving cards to show future generations. Forget them, I myself become nostalgic when I read postcards which I sent to myself around 10 years back. Will definitely use it. Awesome Nisha! We send postcards to my parents and my gran. Have got the children involved. We would love to receive a postcard, but about to move locations again!

I sell greeting cards and am very much aware of the increasing costs of sending cards. The restrictions on letter sizes and weights are crazy. At least postcards generally attract a cheaper rate than letters or cards. Awesome Samantha! So cool that you got the kids involved — definitely a fun way to approach writing practice :.

I buy stamps in bulk usually, and then a couple of months later realize I need new ones!! I love this post so much.. Post card really worthing and giving nostalgia….. Getting back every sentence,places visited etc will be felt heartedly through postcard. Thanks for the reminder! I think it was at least 6 weeks. It really is fabulous! Oh and lol so maybe my postcards from Antarctica arrived quicker being mailed from Australia after the tip lol :D. Postcards are awesome!

Love following your blog and journey. OMG I thought I am the only one left doing that. I was sometimes feel so weird asking for the stamps as well, but yes, what I do, I send a few from each place I go. My parents and granny are always on the list and my friends I pick randomly so they are surprised. I also buy and extra one for myself, I have a full album with postcards from my travels. If you have any left, I would love to get one. It turns out there are a few of us left who send postcards!!!

As generally I used to use postcard in my childhood. Germany, USA, Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK managed to increase their total of sent postcards, but the remaining countries all sent less cards throughout last year. Willi , Antje and Sidolix complete the top 5. We thought it would be cool to do a different kind of ranking with 's data, to give less populous countries and territories a chance to be featured.

Here are postcards sent per inhabitants, for countries with more than 10 members:. No surprises there — World Postcard Day was a huge hit, with a little more than 40, postcards received which were sent on that day. The following 3 best days of the year all happened in February, with around 16, postcards being sent.

Tags: postcrossing , statistics. News, updates, and all kinds of goodies and stories from the postal world! Posted by meiadeleite on 14 Jan, Tags: postcrossing , statistics. Share on:. I love to discover interesting stats like this. Posted by siebe1 on 14 Jan, Posted by Talal90Ahmed on 14 Jan, Wow, that's so cool, thank you for compiling this. That's a lot of postcards!

Posted by -Katie on 14 Jan, I love this hobby so much! I backed off on sending more but will start to amp it up next week! Posted by SunflowerLover on 14 Jan, Posted by carruzzo on 14 Jan, Thank you for your effort to give us these interesting stats. This why I love postcrossing even more. Thanks again!!!! Posted by MerlinM on 14 Jan, Thank you so much! Really enjoyed this wrap up a lot.

Posted by Linderoos on 14 Jan, I've clicked all the links and checked out those super Postcrossers, studied the country list and graphs. I love it all! Thank you. Posted by Chirp2lou on 14 Jan, Thanks for the great list - it's always fun to read the stats! Most postcards per Capita was a very good idea! Posted by reiselustig on 14 Jan, Oh statistics are so beautiful!!

Thanks for sharing!!! Posted by alaskanabbey on 14 Jan, Thanks for these interesting Numbers. I am amazed by the people that send more than postcards last year. What an investment in time and money! I also understand now why I get so many cards from Germany ;-. Posted by Hansvanderveeke on 14 Jan, Thank you for doing this, so cool to see the stats.

Posted by rainbowtrisha on 14 Jan, It would be fun to see the shortest distance a postcard traveled as well! Thanks for sharing all these statistics :. Posted by chloeolivia on 14 Jan, That's incredible! Posted by suxies on 14 Jan, Nice to see the activity in such special year. Postcrossers fighting against all challenges to send and receive cards, and they were not few! Posted by Luziaceleste on 14 Jan, I know with this coronavirus I sent more postcards this year.

One of my favourite "going out" activities was a trip to my mailbox. The people at my post office are enthusiastic about the postcards I send and receive. And are always happy to tell me of newly issued postage stamps as I spend a fortune on postage!

Posted by SuziH on 14 Jan, So interesting to see postcards per capita! Germany is still quite highly ranked while other countries typically ranked high for numbers sent don't even crack this list at all ie. USA, Russia, China. Kudos to these members in smaller countries! Posted by AutismMom on 14 Jan, Some really fascinating figures here, from what was a very unusual year - thank you!

You've shown that postcards took longer to arrive I think we've all noticed that! I feel as though more of my cards than usual just didn't arrive Posted by rococoabean on 15 Jan, A large number of these featured illustrated views of a town and the expression Gruss Aus or, Greetings from , leaving enough space for a message. At the end of the decade, the Eiffel Tower made its debut on the Exposition Universelle of that took place in Paris.

French engraver Charles Libonis designed postcards for the occasion featuring the monument, which was the tallest tower in the world at the time. The novelty postcards, which could be mailed from the Eiffel Tower itself, were much beloved by the visitors and became known as Libonis.

The s saw photography starting to be used in postcards, gradually increasing in popularity over the next few decades. All matter of subjects were photographed with topographics urban street scenes and general views being a recurrent topic.

At the turn of the century, Kodak launched the No. They could be reproduced inexpensively and in large quantities, and had space on the back to write a note.

Visiting or calling cards could be given out in person or when making social calls, and were incredibly popular in Europe and the United States. The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago, a world fair where 46 nations participated with exhibitions and attractions. Over 26 million people visited the fair, and for many of them, this was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to discover what lies beyond their own country's borders.

Publisher Charles W Goldsmith seized the opportunity to produce a novelty set of official postcards, showing the pavilions and other interesting sections of the exhibition in color. These were the first commercially produced pictorial postcards to be printed as a souvenir in the United States, and they proved to be a sensational hit. A year later, prominent London journalist James Douglas wrote:. It has secretly delivered us from the toil of letter-writing.

There are men still living who can recall the days when it was considered necessary and even delightful to write letters to one's friends. Those were times of leisure. Happily, the Picture Postcard has relieved the modern author from this slavery. He can now use all his ink in the sacred task of adding volumes to the noble collection in the British Museum. Formerly, when a man went abroad he was forced to tear himself from the scenery in order to write laborious descriptions of it to his friends at home.

Now he merely buys a picture postcard at each station, scribbles on it a few words in pencil, and posts it. This enhances the pleasures of travel. Many a man in the epistolary age could not face the terrors of the Grand Tour, for he knew that he would be obliged to spend most of his time in describing what he saw or ought to have seen.

The Picture Postcard enables the most indolent man to explore the wilds of Switzerland or Margate without perturbation. In June of , the World Association Kosmopolit was founded in Nuremberg, a postcard collecting club with thousands of members. The association was active until the First World War, and at its peak counted with more than 15 members in Germany alone. The turn of the century saw the golden era of postcards. An article on the Standard a British newspaper from August 21, read:.

With multiple daily pickups and deliveries up to 12 times per day in large cities! It was cheap and convenient to send them, and postcard-obsession reached its peak in the Edwardian era with billions of them being sent every year.

Scenic landscapes, portraits, exhibitions, royal visits, humorous scenes or even current events were quickly printed in postcards shortly after taking place. The many surviving examples of such postcards tell a vivid picture of the time. Sporadic cases have occurred in Britain. Young ladies who have escaped the philatelic infection or wearied of collecting Christmas cards, have been known to fill albums with missives of this kind received from friends abroad; but now the cards are being sold in this country, and it will be like the letting out of waters.

The travelling Teuton seems to regard it as a solemn duty to distribute them from each stage of his journey, as if he were a runner in a paper chase. His first care on reaching some place of note is to lay in a stock, and alternate the sipping of beer with the addressing of postcards. Sometimes he may be seen conscientiously devoting to this task the hours of a railway journey. Some of these cards, by the way, are of enormous size; and anyone who is favoured with them by foreign correspondents is subjected to a heavy fine by the inland postal authorities, who are not content with delivering them in a torn and crumpled state.

In , the British Post Office allowed messages to be written on one half of the side normally reserved for the address, paving the way for the divided back era of postcards. This left the reverse side of the card free to be completely filled with an image.