Postful Adds Postcards
September 5, 2008
The biggest feature we’re launching this week is the addition of postcards. It’s now easy to send custom postcards with your own photos and designs.
To try things out, just go to our site, upload a photo, and add your message. You can preview the card, set the recipient, and send in minutes. It’s only $.59 for a single 4.25″x6″ card. Volume discounts take things down from there.
It’s a great way to send reminders, thank you notes, vacation postcards, holiday cards, and more.
Of course, for many of you, sending individual cards isn’t your key concern. You want to integrate this directly with your application. Through our API, you have full control of the postcard printing system, including complete control of the design on both sides of the card (both sides full color).
If you’re interested in getting more details, just contact us and we can help you to handle the integration process.
For everyone, let us know what you like and, just as importantly, what you don’t like. We’re looking forward to hearing from you.
September 6, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Well done, guys. Excellent development.
September 10, 2008 at 4:48 am
Excellent…that was just what I was waiting for you to do!
A couple of questions:
1) can we send postcards without pictures (and, if so, what is the pricing); and
2) When do you plan on supporting Canada?
September 12, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Thanks! We hope to keep things going.
In answer to emad’s questions:
1) You can send a postcard without a picture. We already have people sending text for front and back.
2) We’re looking at adding international support for postcards early next year. We do mail internationally now for letters.
January 1, 2009 at 4:22 pm
a couple questions -
the api specifies a block for text. how are line endings handled in that? is that a chunk of HTML? the spec just has “hello world” and nothing longer than that.
when you upload an image for a postcard, is that image handle you get persistent or temporary? if it’s persistent, how long can we count on it?
thanks
January 12, 2009 at 2:39 am
Edward,
(1) The text is a chunk of plain text, not HTML. Whitespace is significant in it, however (which is a bit of a departure from most XML), so a newline or tab in the XML will be treated as a newline or tab in the outputted text.
(2) The images are temporary. You can count on them being on the servers for at least a couple of days, though this policy may change at some point due to server load.