When is the last time you got a post card – other than a notice from your eye doctor? We’re talking post cards from Florida or Old Faithful or the Caribbean.
Boomers remember when post cards were not only common, but essentially a requirement when folks went on vacation. Today, instead of post cards, our in-boxes are filled with e-mails sporting pictures of the vacations taken from I-phones.
For years, post cards cost 2 cents to mail, then they went up to 3 cents and everyone was stunned. Three whole cents for a post card! The very nerve. The cards themselves typically cost a nickel, but the photography was stunning. Being limited with space, the post card senders often jammed words along the sides and even on the fronts of the cards, but somehow the mailmen deciphered the addresses and the cards made it back to parents and friends.
Today post cards cost 56 cents to mail and if they happen to make it to the intended address and within a month, consider yourself fortunate.
