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Seems similar to "thesimplepostcard" https://www.thesimplepostcard.com but for a dollar more. I used simple postcard, but the photo arrived damaged. I'd be willing to give this a shot if I had some sort of assurance that the photo would arrive undamaged.

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I'm definitely not the first person to come up with this. But, as a side project hacked away over a weekend it was a lot of fun to build!

As for the damaged postcard...once it hits the route it's pretty much beyond our control. If your mail-person isn't careful with the mail, it'll get bent, folded, damaged...

Sorry I didn't mean to knock it/you in any way. its pretty awesome building something like this. Even if someone's done it before, as others have said this is a marketing game so you can totally make it into something bigger. You have their phone numbers, if you want you could send people text messages before christmas reminding them to send postcards.

thats fair. I figured higher quality card stock/printing might help prevent scratches.

Isn't that more likely a postal service issue outside of the control of the company sending the postcard?

It is, but your chances of getting the card through are reasonable if your card stock is adequate. I've used Ilford postcard paper (a wet-process darkroom paper) and it is thick enough for surviving normal postal processes.

At risk of hijacking this thread...

Try my friend's app! https://textmycards.com/

I tried your friend's app but I bailed out when it was unclear where my payment details were being sent.

Thanks for trying it--it's my service, launched around Mother's Day of this year. I should make it clearer--it's secured with Stripe. All payment info is stored on Stripe.

That's what I figured but it wasn't obvious so I stopped. Could your payment page also use HTTPS?

Yeah, it does use HTTPS, but I'll definitely make it clearer. Thanks for the feedback! Cool to see multiple versions of the same underlying service being built. Competition on price, UI/UX (slight differences) , and marketing is what it will come down to. :) Good stuff, Postacard--seriously mean it! Fun little hack indeed.

Awesome! ;)

That site days US only. So that's useless for most people.

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