Does anyone do these any more?

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  1. Ome

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-58179661

    When we were kids sending a postcard was always something you did on holiday - sometimes to your own home and seeing who made it home first... Does anyone ever still send them? A quick whats app snap or Facebook post these days innit.

    Same with handwritten letters I guess.
     
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    Reply is in the post!
     
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    It was either a landscape photo of Scarborough or one of the cheeky Bamford cartoon cards.
    Loads of people used to stand laughing at those cards on the card spinners. Was part of the holiday fun.

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    Bet most of them wouldnt be down with the pc crowd these days lol
     
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    still send a couple but not like we used to - easier to send a photo and brief message on whatsapp these days. Did actually receive a postcard yesteday from some friends who were in Oban last week - they are back now of course
     
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    we got one from our grandchildren 2 days after they got back from Cornwall. Royal Mail put picture post cards in the 3rd class bin (when ever).
     
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    Got a lovely friend down in Leicester who basically says the same thing, we regularly talk via phones etc, but on special occasions we make sure to send each other handwritten letters. Just feels a nice, personable touch
     
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    Our 3 kids always sent their Grandma one each whenever we were on holiday. It was something they loved to do, mainly just for the fun of it, but also to see whose postcard would get there first. They always arrived on different days despite all being posted together.

    As a kid I spent plenty of time in the postcard shop at Scarborough. The one just up the road and the opposite side from the joke shop (another one of my favourite shops back then).
    Happy days...
     
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    I remember when we were moving offices from Featherstone to Pontefract a few years ago.We were moving the fittings off the wall ( they used to have the mail sorted into them ) and behind one was a postcard sent from Blackpool in 1963. Shows how things can get (lost). The service now is getting worse thanks to privatisation.
     
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