Postcards are amazing! When you are travelling or living in another city or country it's easy to lost contact with your love ones. Postcards are a fun and good way to keep in touch with loved ones back home. You write few phrases to let them know what are you doing and how are you feeling. I think it's just warm way to keep in touch and show the place that you are visiting without the social media like Instagram and Facebook. Of course, it takes days, weeks or months to arrive the destination. But that doesn't matter. The importance is the thought of sharing and writing for your loved ones. Deltiologists, as postcard collectors are called, collect for a variety of reasons. I collect them to make more friends and I feel conection to the world.I already sent postcards before, but when pandemic started I thought I need to find a hobby so I started to sending and receiving postcards through the site Postcrossing.com
Also, there is emotional value when you writing to someone or you are reading from a postcard that you received. One day I was feeling depressed but when I found out postcards from my mailbox I was instantly so happy. Now I don't have money to travel to many places, like Europe, Asia, North America, Africa. So receiving them it's like I am traveling to these places. I received one from China! I never went there but now looks I know little more about China and people there. This hobby is a amazing activity of communicating with other people from diferent cultures. My collection it's little bit shy, but I want to send and receive postcards until the day I die. I am 30 years old so I have many decades ahead, but to be honest you can start sending postcards when you are child, teenager, adult or elderly. Remember just to have fun!
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