Concept in Definition ABC

A postcard is a card of characteristic rectangular shape that shows an illustrated face, traditionally occupied by the image of some of the centers most important tourist attractions in the world, although in recent times the range of possibilities has expanded to unsuspected limits that include: personalities of the music, the movie theater, the theater, the 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 cardboard piece is divided into two halves, on the left you can to 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 a much cheaper alternative than the letter.

Usually, someone who chooses to send a postcard is on vacation somewhere and then uses the excuse of the postcard to communicate with a loved one and take advantage of the image that it contains to show him what the physiognomy of the part of the world in which he is find. 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 matters, among others, since its content can be read by any.

Although when one thinks of a postcard, instantly, the rectangular piece that we mentioned that is sent only by mail will come to mind, in recent years, it has become a common practice, although it still does not supplant the mystique that the classic postcard has for me, that people send virtual postcards through its email after having chosen the best reason static or animated with the technology Flash, which offer many web pages created exclusively for this purpose.