Writing and sending greeting cards by mail has been become obsolete and less and less people send birthday greetings and postcards by regular mail... what do you think about it?
Do you prefer receiving birthday card by mail or by SMS?
As for me, I depend more on mobile messages to send greetings. I believe most people depend on WhatsApp or other application when sending greetings.
Dear @Darko, I do send e-mails and rarely SMS, only to respond to SMS greeting! I wish You Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I depend very much on the internet for my greetings and communication in general, bec ause, it enables me to reach much further in the World.
Nevertheless, for those who are closest to my heart, I might prefer delivering greetings in person.
In my country, post offices are slowly gowing bankrupt, and closing post offices every month. At the moment, I have to take the csr and drive for several minutes to go to the post-office to mail packets.
I dislike getting greetings through email, and very much consider them as «junk», except when they arrive from abroad, and I would much prefer a presencial hug, but this is the modern world.
I agree with Maria becuase I sometimes use the interent for such greetings. Nowadays as Mahfuz said, most people depend on WhatsApp and some other applicatiions.. i wish you all a happy new year full of joy and happiness...
I usually send and receive e-cards, for BIRTHDAYS, CHRISTMAS, CHINESE NEW YEAR, EID CELEBRATIONS, DEEPAVALI and HARVEST CELEBRATIONS. Here, we are multi cultural, but each festival is only a 1 day or 2 day holiday. (At times, I receive greetings through whatsapp, and sms.)
Peace and Joy at Christmas and throughout the year to all! 'GOD BLESS THEE, LET NOTHING YE DISMAY.'
http://www.thestar.com.my/Travel/Malaysia/2012/11/12/Festivals-and-celebrations-in-Malaysia/
I am not picky about it, mail/calls/text modes of communications are cool depending on the person you have to greet. I send E-cards to my family, friends/acquaintances who are far from me just to make them feel that I am regarded in their felicity.
Personally I use four methods I send cards for coworkers and Social media facebook and linkden for major holidays, e-cards and some form of messeging for friends. All of them for my loved ones.
Dear all,
Happy New Year 2015 !
I wish may the coming new year fulfills all your dreams turn into reality and all your efforts into great achievements.
Regards - Asad Biabani
People cherish and value the connect and not the mode (physical / electronic). Psycho-social id satisfaction.
Dear Darko,
I prefer cards by mail, but I must admit that the virtual practicality is amazing and the important thing is to remember dates and greet friends!
All the best!
Vanessa
I prefer to convey quickly using mobile and/or Emails because traditional cards take more time to reach.
Hi All and Darko Pavlović; I personally use mobile phone and talk to personally and greet individually. Of course Face book Friends are being greeted through face book and also through RG for RG friends whose date of birth known to me. Thanks.
Yes, dear Cecilia. That's it !!!
If I am to be conscious of saving rain forest trees, (at least one or two), I will quicly turn to more personalized internet greetings!
So, just to save at least one rain forest tree, Here goes my Season's Greetings to all RG members and good friends.
May this magic lantern bring peaceful light to all our hearts. (It was hand manufactured by the Portuguese artist Ana Mandillo, that you'll find on FB).
Kind regards, M.
The greeting cards have a special flavor, especially if they come from particular people. For routine and practicality messages from mobile phones are definitely more effective.
I tend to use e-mail greeting cards or personal telephone calls for friends living nearby. For friends or people abroad, Facebook, e-mail, and sometimes regular mail. But, as the Mail Service is not so reliable at home, i usually prefer e-mail messages or cards, at least you know if it has been received.
I don't like general SMS greetings by mobile phone. I really dislike this cell phone mania, having people watching their cell phones all day long. I'm old fashioned regarding phone calls, and just call when I need to say something, not just to kill time.
I have a feeling that today, unfortunately, people have drifted away from the beautiful custom of sending greeting cards ... that people find it easier to send e-mail than to send 'traditional' postcards by mail.
What could be a reason for this change in habit.....??
We do live too fast dear @Darko! That is the reason for the absence of greeting cards! We used to collect them when we were young! Collection of e-mail greetings is not a collection! There is no beauty as @lerardo stated! Internet brought such changes!
Every celebration is a day of rejoice. Please accept my greetings.
Let us not stop greeting each other, daily, and rejoice, independently from the date. This would be a much better spirit and transform good "Seasons" into "permanent" emotions.
The beautiful well-colored greeting cards are of much less demand than before 1995 (the year in which the internet came to our country). We don't see post office boxes & the "postman" now. Most people rely on e-mails, SMS, Skype, and Facebook to send their greetings. I use the e-mail mostly.
Dear @Nizar, please have a look into a postcard which was sent to my grandfather by my father in 1947!
THANK YOU DEAR PROF.Ljubomir Jacić, The card is a splendid piece of history & I like very much the good handwriting.
Dear colleagues,
Thank you for joining the discussion and for your time and willingness to help my research.These information’s are very useful.
Dear friends, here is a postcard presenting my city Pozarevac, the end of 19 century!
This is an old postcard showing my city of Vukovar (early 20th century)
Dear all, I wish to send greetings HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR. This is celebrated by Chinese all over the world. I believe many of you have Chinese friends. I'm very busy over this period, but I do my best on RG. But when busy, I'm quite absent minded. So here I send my e greeting card for HEALTH AND HAPPINESS IN THE YEAR OF THE RAM (GOAT).
There is nothing to beat a printed greeting Card, however, these days the greetings reaches us through Phones as Test Messages, Viber, Whatsapp etc.,
Birthday wishes definitely adds cheer on your friends' or loved ones' birthday. so go ahead and make their birthdays more special by sending our birthday wishes cards..
Popup 3D Cards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMbF6eJflcM
Dear friends, some of us are from Danube banks, as Darko is. Old Photos and Postcards, process motifs of the Danube and its banks in a thematic way - just watch and enjoy, it is virtual Danube Museum! It covers all the Danube countries!
http://virtuelnimuzejdunava.rs/serbia/cultural-heritage/art/old-photos-and-postcards.382.html
Danube countries (old postcards)
Vukovar, Croatian Baroque city on the Danube river
Danube countries (old postcards)
Ilok, the easternmost town of the Republic of Croatian, in line rises above the Danube, surrounded by slopes of Fruska Gora and beautiful vineyards.
Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia.Political, cultural and economic center of Slovakia.
It is often called "The beauty of the Danube".
Danube countries (old postcards)
Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria.
Old postcards of places, the coast of the Danube give us a pictorial testimony to their historical moment ....
Today old postcards provide interesting historical information stopped at some past time (events, rivers, parks , streets, monuments ...). Old postcard thus became a document that bears witness to the to the history and culture of living in some remote time ....
That's why I love them and collect ....
My dear friends, very often postcards have been watered with tears for good reason! Memories!
Dear friends, the first postcards have appeared in Serbia in 1896! Fine collection inside the web cite!
http://www.imus.org.rs/eimus0025.htm
Dear @Eraldo, I have found the information about the oldest sent postcard to Serbia. " Oldest known Austrian-Hungarian picture postcard, sent from Vienna to Zombor (Sombor) and back to Vienna; date sent: May, 19th 1871. The card was sent out by the Serb Petar Manojlović to his cousin. Postcard is written in Serbian language with Cyrillic script.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OldestAustrianPictPostcard.jpg
Probably the World's Oldest Picture Postcardis a postcard sent by Theodore Hook Esq. from Fulham, London, UK to himself in 1840. It is the only postcard to have a Penny Black stamp. The illustration shows a coloured caricature of Post Office scribes seated around an enormous inkwell.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1862284.stm
Dear @Darko, this is postcard of my city, Pozarevac. It is Royal square at the postcard! I do suppose it is from the beginning of 20th century!
Zagreb is the capital of the Republic of Croatia and an old Central European city
The name "Zagreb" is mentioned for the first time in 1094 at the founding of the Zagreb diocese of Kaptol, and Zagreb became a free royal town in 1242.. In 1851 Zagreb had its first mayor, Janko Kamauf....
Legend about Zagreb (Zvonimir Milčec)
" A well known Zagreb phrase says that "the only thing lovelier than Zagreb itself are its women", giving a lovely compliment to both the city and its female citizens. However, it is worthwhile adding that the women of Zagreb are - older than Zagreb!Or at least one of them is. One legend says that the name of the city originated like this: an old city ruler, tired and thirsty, ordered the young girl Manda to bring water from the source. The ruler said "Mando, dear, zagrabi!" (zagrabi - scoop it). And hence the name of Zagreb and the name of the well Manduševac...Unverified and unreliable, like most legends, but in any case sweet and significant, like some type of pre-answer to the eternal question: why are the women of Zagreb so charming and lovely? Well, likely because the first of them, the one that according to the legend was there when the city received its name, was just that. Namely, she must have been, for the ruler to so nicely and tenderly call her, "Manda, dear, scoop it..."And even today, they say that the loveliest things in Zagreb are the old town and young women. This is no longer a matter of aesthetics, as this saying has set the coordinates from which to observe Zagreb: old and young, where old and young are intertwined at every step..."
Today's collection of old postcards for any special value, but the biggest is that revives our past. For example, it is known that Warsaw rebuilt with the help of a collection of old postcards. This is why many museums in the world have departments of old postcards.
Dear Darko,
I have a small collection of postcards of Brazil and the World, of the travels that my research colleagues do!
I love cards (cards, birthday, New Year ...)!
Some old cards of São Paulo:
Best wishes,
Vanessa
P.S. Beautiful post cards that You, Dear Erald, Dear Arar and Dear Ljubomir sent!
Father’s Day is celebrated worldwide to recognize the contribution that fathers and father figures make to the lives of their children. The first Father's Day was held back in 1908 in the United States after a major mining disaster which killed more than 250 fathers and the daughter of one of them asked the local pastor to hold a Mass for all of them. Today in Croatia celebrates Father's Day
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. Victor Hugo
How about virtual postcards! Virtual tours are also enabled!
http://www.roeddehouse.org/en/services/multimedia/virtual-postcards-xch
VINTAGE POSTCARDS FROM SERBIA with finest chocholate!
http://www.eugenchocolate.com/sr/kolekcije/vintage-postcards-from-serbia-225.html
Real-photo postcards (sometimes called RPPCs) are the result of developing a negative onto photo paper with a pre-printed postcard backing.
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/postcards/overview
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.
Galen Rowell
Dear Darco RG
Certainly the technology of communication allows us to achieve the ends of the earth in a few moments. To wish a happy event among other birthday with one click consignee in angels because of our intention to have thought of it. For the latter no matter how to wish him a happy birthday as long as it is good that we thought of it. "So it's the thought that is the most important and not the way".
Regards
@ Subhash
Agree, that mobile and e-mail greetings are popular these days as they are
What a choice of e-greeting cards for different occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, holidays...! There is no end the human imagination and inventiveness!
http://www.someecards.com/ecards/birthday/
http://www.123greetings.com/
http://www.snowleopard.org/connect/ecards?gclid=CLO5rt3uwMQCFYrLtAodFxsAQA
http://www.jacquielawson.com/
I am agree with Dear @Ljubomir and Dear @Krishnan, that using e-card is flexible and inventiveness, as well as Dear @Cecilia... it is more sustainable..... and I like add it, some time I like to send by card to my Adviser as a special thank's .... because I know that he prefer get card
I know, E-mail (e-card) is easy to use, comfortable, flexible ... but I will prefer to send postcards. At the same time, I collect old postcards .... images of time that is long gone ..
Article by Kerry Mcdermott - August / December 2012
"Death of the postcard: Facebook photos from the poolside and picture messages mean we no longer write home"
"It’s probably better to talk: How checking our phones 60 times a day is driving away friends"
I am bringing a few more articles on the role of postcards - different case studies.
http://www.academia.edu/5704338/P%C3%B3csik-Kiss-Karancsi_Role_of_postcards_in_the_sale_of_historic_landscapes_and_townscapes._Comparative_analysis_of_two_different_Hungarian_key_tourist_areas._Siedlungsforschung_31_2014_337-351
http://queensjournal.ca/story/2009-11-10/postscript/evolving-role-postcards/
http://jvm.sagepub.com/content/18/2/157.short
Article The Symbolic Role of Postcards in Representing a Destination...
Postcard history begins in the latter half of the 19th century
1861. was important year in postcard history. On February 27, 1861, the US Congress passed an act that allowed privately printed cards, weighing one ounce or under, to be sent in the mail.
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/photography/History-of-Postcards.html
European Film Star Postcards
Vintage postcards, stars and stories, http://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/
I think the craze varies over ages. During my college days in 1980's me and my brother would keep all the greeting cards pinned to one another as a chain and hang in the wall, to show with pride the number of Greeting cards received. As time passes, these cards would gather dust, dirt and dog eared, eventually find its removal. This practice is not seen nowadays, as we have become to be electronic and paperless.
Do not throw away old postcards that you get. Each postcard is a different story, history ...! Save them for future, as they have certainly great value, especially emotional!
Collection of old postcards for me represents the stacking of small image moments of the past and a great love for their city and people ...
The old bridge on the river Vuka (Vukovar)
Postcard from the early years of the 20th century the old bridge over the river Vuka
Hell Gate Bridge (originally the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge or The East River Arch Bridge)
The bridge crosses the Hell Gate, a strait of the East River, between Astoria in Queens and Randalls and Wards Islands in Manhattan
Dear All
I suggest that both e-card and post card have their on value added,
Fine examples of different sorts of postcards. My contribution is about promoting science! Science exploration through stories by means of postcards!
http://www.sciencepostcards.com/
One of the most popular areas of collecting postcard are scenes from the town on the rivers or bridges ....
http://croatia.ch/kultura/umjetnost/140326.pdf
Thanks dear @Darko. Very valuable document. Dunav, Drava, Sava...the rivers that connect...! For people who do not speak our languages, in order to understand, here is a summary :"Behind the title of the exhibition lies a complex historical panorama of those parts of the courses of Danube, Drava and Sava by which they together enclose a large and rich interamnium. This panorama is composed out of a number of postcards bearing the motifs of the rivers of Danube,Drava and Sava,which were made a long time ago, sent with love and kept with care, and now they are preserved within the holdings of the State Archives in Osijek. The selection of exhibits reveals a mosaic of our encounters with those rivers and the people living and working by and on them in the past.As in the motion picture,before us we have shifting images of natural landscapes and panoramas of towns and villages, riverbank streets,buildings and vegetation, bridges, bathing places, piers, vessels, professions associated to the river, work and leisure of the people, in short,the symbiosis of the man and our great rivers in the past. And after millennia have passed, they are still, in the contemporary European context, objects of perception,discussion and agreement on their role and importance to the countries the through which they flow and the regions they dominate."
Great contribution dear @Darko!
Dear @Darko, dear friends, watch what I have found about postcards of Yugoslavia. 23 minutes of nice journey - through Yugoslavia by means of postcards!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJOBjOs6-L0
Dear Darko, Ljubomir and all, I almost forgot to tell you that my students are very artistic, and they love making cards for me. What I do then is to laminate some of the cards, and decorate the walls of my cubicle. (We have a New year card here, and a birthday card that shows the structures in a cell.)
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