Add flair to your postcards & scrapbooks
For many people, sending postcards to the folks back home is part of the fun of travel. For a rapidly-growing number of travellers, creating scrapbooks when they get back home helps cement and even enhance the memories. Wouldn’t it be great to have postage stamps showing where you are to put on your postcards, and exactly the right photo for your scrapbook? Well, that’s easier than you might think.
To mail your postcards from places in the United States, PhotoStamps.com is the source for custom stamps, and in Canada it’s the Post Office’s PicturePostage program.
If you don’t have quite the photo you want for either a custom stamp or your scrapbook, microstock photography sites are the answer. For as little as $1 you can get professional-quality photos from photographers around the world. Have a look at:
Those of you who own your own business have no doubt already seen the marketing possibilities – having a custom postage stamp with your logo on it does get noticed. You can see the one I created to promote my community at ExploreNorth’s Carcross page – that photo is the view from my cabin.