Postcards are good at their job—maybe too good. Designed to be a quick and easy way to communicate, they don’t require a lot of thought, which means you never think about them. You spin the ...

Postcards from abroad became a licence to ... Paxos” laboriously writing out “Glorious sunshine, wish you were here” 17 times – and then find a postbox. Nowadays, thankfully, you can ...

Postcards are everywhere and "used as reminders, advertisements, and casual correspondence," writes Mimosa Shah in the essay "Wish You Were Here: The Power of Postcards." "They mark travel and ...

We no longer wish you were here. Or rather, these days, an individual I is much less likely to scrawl such a message on a postcard to a particular You. The collective We and the aggregate You ...

Postcards were an early version of social media - sent to keep in touch with family and friends, recall places visited and remind us of special events, often suggesting: "Wish You Were Here." ...

“Because printing technology was so well developed in Germany, cards were produced for the whole world. Everyone was enthusiastic about it, there was a real picture postcard mania,” says ...