Go Postal with a Postcard Sent by the USPS

As strange as it sounds, you can actually send a real postcard—just the kind your technophobic great-grandfather can hold in his hand, with a stamp on it—right from your iPhone. If the idea strikes you as a throwback, just think about the possibilities. Imagine you’re on vacation in Utah—or Uganda—and you want to scribble a few postcards to your friends or parents. With these iPhone apps, you can safely shun all those gaudy postcards at trinket shops and send one of your own images. In fact, you don’t even have to worry about buying a postcard and licking a stamp. You just fire up the app, choose your photo, adorn it with a border and maybe stickers, grab an address right from your contacts, and essentially ...

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