The Ultimate Souvenir: Custom Postcards with Future Delivery

Everywhere we go on holiday, from cosmopolitan cities to wild, untamed beaches, to remote countryside villages to natural wonders, there is always somewhere close by a shop that sells postcards. The idea of buying a postcard from a place you’ve visited is the most quintessential vacation habit we have developed as tourists. 

A postcard is the ultimate vacation keepsake

Decades ago it was a way to tell your friends, family, and even neighbours that you’d been somewhere. If you think about it, you would literally post them a card with a picture from your location, and write a caption for that picture with your thoughts at that moment. Sounds a lot like what we are doing nowadays on social media. Of course, it has become a lot less personal, because our posts are addressed to the world in general, not only one particular person, but the intent has remained the same: to share our experiences. 

People are still buying lots of postcards today on trip, but more with the intention of having a souvenir for themselves. Some are even posting them to their home address, and most of the time the postcards arrive before they even return home. Kinda sad if you think about it -

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The postcard has lost its magic.

Postcards may be a thing of the past, but that does not mean that they can’t hold a place of value in our modern world. Nostalgia is a powerful feeling that we all share, the only difference is what each of us is nostalgic for, and we are all nostalgic for something we have personally lived through. No one is proposing we ditch the postcard, as discussed before it is a piece of emotion suspended in time, let’s just bring the postcard format to the second quarter of our century in an updated, better version of itself.

Introducing FuturePosts: the postcard service of the present for future nostalgia

With FuturePosts you can make a postcard online, with your photos, write a message and then post it to the future! That postcard becomes a physical time capsule that will be delivered to your recipient's home address whenever you choose: it can be this month, this year or even this decade!

FuturePosts is reinventing the postcard in the modern age by keeping all that we loved about a postcard intact.

A futurepost is still a keepsake that you can hold in your hands or display proudly in your home. It still has that iconic postcard format, a large image on one side and a personal message on the other side that is framed by colorful lines on the edges; and most importantly you still receive it  by mail, not by email!

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Taking hundreds of photos while on vacation is a hobby shared by everybody

We are all trying our best to snap that perfect photo, that shows our true beauty next to that mesmerising landscape. What happens to those beautiful pictures after the vacation is over? Most likely they will get lost in the hundreds that already reside in your phone. Some might get posted on social media and receive likes from mostly strangers right? so their fate feels somewhat cold and impersonal, your amazing pictures never reach their true potential on this route either. Why not turn them into a postcard? Give them meaning by crafting your very own time capsule with your best holiday pictures, ready to reach future you or your loved ones at your set future date. 

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The photos found on traditional postcards no longer feel personal.

We as modern humans are tired of stock photos, or airbrushed landscapes, and we want candor - we want an image that evokes a memory personal to us. An image that we saw with our own eyes in reality, that impressed us enough for us to want to take a picture of it. That is how you create nostalgia, and a futurepost is the postcard of the present that can help you achieve pure nostalgia. Knowing that the postcard you create online with FuturePosts will become a time capsule, the message written on it gains new meaning too. The message on the back of a futurepost can be your future self letter, that preserves your current thoughts, dreams and experiences. By sending yourself or your loved ones a message from the present, you capture the essence of who you are and what you value right now, offering a meaningful snapshot of your journey.

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Thousands of souvenirs are being bought daily, every tourist is always searching for that perfect souvenir, but most settle for generic knick-knacks. Be different and make a smart choice on your next holiday, choose meaning, choose substance, choose pure nostalgia with FuturePosts. Head to future-posts.com and use your photos and thoughts to craft your time capsule that will be shipped to your chosen future date as a large and vibrant postcard. Skip the traditional souvenirs and futurepost your memories today!