Travel Tip for sending postcards

29 August 2009
Travel Tip for sending postcards

I love sending postcards when I’m travelling, and today’s travel tip for sending postcards is going to make it easy for you – and it has two parts.

Travel Tip for Sending Postcards #1

Before you leave home on your big adventure to Paris (or Sydney, Suez, Scandinavia or Sarawak), type up the names and addresses of people you’d like to write to – straight onto a sticky label or address label layout on your computer.

Simply print this onto the sticky labels, and take it with you.

You can even use labels with images, or add your own.

Travel tip for sending postcards from Paris France (image)

Depending on how long you’re travelling, you might like to duplicate some of the names etc to create more than one label per person.

If you haven’t used all the labels by the time you get back home, you can use them to send birthday cards, Christmas cards etc – an added bonus :-)

Travel Tip for Sending Postcards #2

Now I don’t know if anyone else will think this is a good idea, but I ALWAYS take sticky labels with me which have my HOME details printed on them.  I can use these on the postcards [making sure to trim them and write FROM so the postman won’t get confused :-) ] and I can also give them to people I meet along the way … I always carry a notebook so I can put their stickers straight into my book and make a note of the date and place we met.

Of course these days many people have smartphones, so they can use Apps to share their details – but my tip is a bit more “old school” :-)

Read more about my Travel Tip for postcard address using sticky labels here >>

Do you have your own travel tip for sending postcards?

I’d love to hear it, post a message and I’ll put it on this page :-)

 

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2 Responses to “Travel Tip for sending postcards”

  1. Marie Longserre July 11, 2012 at 5:59 am

    Teena, I take the preprinted labels with me too. I can usually buy stamps in the airport upon arrival otherwise I buy them early in the trip at first opportunity. I have spent far too much time in line at a postoffice and would much rather get them from a small shop, (in Paris it’s the cigar store). I also buy postcards early on. I stamp and label the cards. Then, as time allows, I’ll pen a few lines on a card when waiting for lunch, sitting in a park, or before bed. Before I’m ready to leave all the cards are done and I don’t have to worry about stamps, addresses, or rushing to complete them at the last minute. I also ALWAYS send one or more to myself. When I get it in the mail back at home it takes me back immediately to where I was when I wrote it and it becomes a treasured souvenir of my trip.

    • What a wonderful way to do your postcards Marie, thanks so much for sharing your fabulous tips, this will help lots of other people on their travels. I especially like sending a postcard to yourself, a wonderful idea! And a great way to collect memories :-)

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