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Postagram Swap
Group:Mr. ZIP Approved!
Swap Coordinator:rachelcdoyle (contact)
Swap categories: Postcards 
Number of people in swap:3
Location:International
Type:Type 2: Flat mail
Rating requirement:4.90
Last day to signup/drop:April 25, 2012
Date items must be sent by:May 2, 2012
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

While we all appreciate good old fashion mail that we wrote out with our pens and carefully applied a stamp, carried it to the post box and waited for it to arrive, this IS 2012 and I'm coming out of my box to embrace technologically. :D Well, actually I work for a software company so I kinda did that years ago BUT... I digress, which I'm really good at.

There is this really cool website called Postagram. You make an account, sign in and from there you can use YOUR photos (or other photos you've found along the way that you love), type out a small note and hit "send". This company will then print it out for you and snail mail a spiffy postcard to the recipient. You can do it from an app on your iPhone or Android OR if you don't have one or you'd rather use a photo you've stored on your computer you can upload from your computer. It also works hand in hand with Instagram.

Their website says you can send anywhere so I emailed them to get exact rates. From USA to USA it's .99 for a postcard and for International it's $1.99. Also, the picture "pops out" of the postcard so if you want to start some sort of collage with the pictures you are postagrammed this would be really easy. :)

I hope I have covered everything but if you have questions please ask. If I don't know the answer I'll look it up!! :)

Thanks and Happy Swapping!

I'm setting this as Type 2 because while it is done over the computer, the recipient gets a "hold in your hands" postcard.

Discussion

reauk 04/21/2012 #

there use this in british army its pretty kool .

BetsyPreston 04/22/2012 #

Huh. I couldn't get this to work at all. The browser app does...nothing...when I try to upload a picture. The phone app crashes every time I try to log in.

The sincerely.com registration page didn't look...real. It didn't ask me to repeat my password. It said that it would send me an email so I could activate my account, but when the email came (10 minutes later) there was nothing about activating my account. I couldn't find anything on the postagramapp.com website about JOINING - just how to log in if you already had an account (eventually I stumbled across a link to sincerely).

It didn't say anywhere how much a postcard costs, and then the page to "add credits" says 5 credits for 99 cents. What does 5 credits get - why doesn't it say? Why would one postcard cost 5 credits?

When I tried to buy 5 credits, paypal wouldn't let me cuz it said there is a problem with the merchant.

I googled for postagram help - nothing. I googled for problems with postagram - nothing.

Basically, at every turn, this doesn't look like a "real" website. Has anyone else gotten ANYTHING to work?

FiWebster 04/23/2012 #

I haven't tried the website yet, but 99 cents for a postcard sounds like a lot to me. If you have a printer (and who doesn't?) you can print out your own photo and glue it to some kitchen cardboard. Then it only costs 32 cents for 4” x 6” or 45 cents for a larger photo, to mail.

ColoradoKate 04/23/2012 #

@BetsyPreston - I'm sorry to hear you're struggling with the site. Maybe @manders2280 can explain it some? I've not used this before...

@melusina - I think the beauty of this sort of swap is that, for people with smart phones, it's almost an instantaneous sort of thing. I personally don't have a working printer at this time. ;) And, in reference to the cost of a postcard, I suppose it depends on the card... the Cherry Blossom Centennial cards my father recently bought me in D.C. were $0.75 each! I suppose I'm used to my postcard totals running around $1.00+. :)

manders2280 04/23/2012 #

I've been sending postagrams for several months now. We don't have a printer. When I went to an out-of-state wedding several months ago, I sent a whole slew of these cards to people who could not come. I sent a photo of my spouse to my in-laws recently and they asked how to do one without a smartphone. $0.99 is less expensive than similar apps. Printing postcards from photos and mailing them is quite hot at the moment.

I tried the Postagram site just now and had trouble with the upload - right filetype, right size and it tells me the photo is too large. I've emailed photos from my computer to my phone so I could send them because I didn't know the upload feature existed. @rachelcdoyle sent me a postagram from her computer so I know it works sometimes.

manders2280 04/23/2012 #

postagram customer support has lots of answers, well organized and with a search feature. If all else fails, email your questions - or @BetsyPreston send them you complaints. :-) They are generous with free cards!

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