A postcard is a card with a characteristic rectangular shape that shows an illustrated face, traditionally occupied by the image of some of the most important tourist centers in the world, although in recent times the range of possibilities has expanded to unsuspected limits that include: personalities of music, cinema, theater, politics and the arts and the most diverse themes and that has been approved to be used as a traditional letter.
The differential and most characteristic feature of this very traditional form of communication that is used anywhere in the world, is that unlike the letter, it does not use an envelope to be sent, the back of the piece of cardboard is divided into two halves, on the left you can write the message to be sent and on the right the relevant place for the stamp and the indication of the recipient's address, in addition to being an alternative much cheaper than the letter.
Generally, whoever chooses to send a postcard is on vacation somewhere and then uses the excuse of the postcard to communicate with a loved one and takes advantage of the image that it contains to show him / her what the physiognomy of the part of the world is like. which is. The postcard is sold mainly by souvenir shops that sell objects or clothing characteristic of the regions in which they are found.
As a consequence of the fact that postcards do not use envelopes to be sent, it is obviously recommended not to use them to communicate strictly private matters such as: the disclosure of some money issues, among others, since their content can be read by anyone.
Although when one thinks of a postcard, the rectangular piece that we mentioned that is sent only by mail will instantly come to mind, in recent years, it has become a common practice, although it has not yet supplanted the mystique that the classic postcard has for me, that people send virtual postcards through their email after having chosen the best static or animated motif with Flash technology, offered by many web pages created exclusively for this purpose.
