Postalz is an online service that lets you communicate with friends and family using postcards. It is similar to email, but better suited for occasions when just text is just not good enough. On Postalz, you can create postcards with text, art, photo and video and exchange them privately, just like you would do with email.

Postalz can communicate the special moments in your life, in a very special way. Email with photo attachments, or web photo albums do not tell your story, as well as postcards do. Whatever the occasion: a vacation to the bahamas, sharing your first date with a girlfriend, seeking a recipe from mom, or fretting on a shopping dilemma... you will find that every moment can be better expressed on a postcard.

Postalz makes creating and sending/receiving postcards easy for everyone. Experience it.

It is super easy. You compose a postcard just like you would compose an email, and then you send it to your friends. Every postcard is sent out as a 4x6 sized card. People can not only read the card, but comment on it using ‘spots'. Spots is a totally cool feature, where someone plants a kiss on your lips or packs a punch, to express their feelings anywhere they like ON your postcard. You can also edit a postcard you get, and re-compose a reply (just like we do on an email), by adding/replacing pictures, video, art or text.

1. How do I sign up ?
2. I have heard of postsecret; Is it like postsecret ?
3. Is it same as ecards? How it is different from ecards?
4. How do I create a private postcard?
5. How do I reply to a postcard I received?
6. Can I change something on a postcard I received and send it back as a reply?
7. How do I view comments?
8. Can I add my own spot (image) in the spot comments gallery?
9. Can I edit a postcard that I sent out already?
10. How do I save my postcard collection?
11. How do I upload my video?
12. Animated gifs – will my personal collection work?
13. Can I add animated flash art on my postcard?
14. Can I upload pictures from my social network folder?
15. Can I embed some “widget code” on the card?
16. How do I upload my address book?
17. Do I know automatically, if my friends sign up for postalz?
18. Spam - How can I block someone from sending me postcards?
19. How do I send a private postcard to someone from the postalz community?
20. Can I use a public postcard from the community for my friend?
21. How do I send or receive a postcard ?
22. What are private postcards and community postcards ?
23. How do I send a private postcard to someone from the postalz community?
24. Can I use a public postcard from the community for my friend?
25. What about my privacy ? How secure is it ?
26. How can I invite my friends to join this service ?
27. Carry your postbox to your blog
28. Blog your postcard
29. Putting text on top of pictures – how do I do it?
30. Pictures lot of time to upload – how do I speed up?
31. Want to use a picture as postcard background – but full size image upload option is not big enough.
32. Images get distorted when stretched – how do I avoid that?
33. Want to put my own video on a postcard – not sure how to go about it.
34. How do I generate handwritten text?
35. How do I bring an image from back to the front, or reverse?
36. Can I generate my own banners?
37. Can I use other utilities on web to create cool text and banners?
38. I dont know what kind of postcards to create?Can you share some ideas.

It is easy – no need to fill pages of profiles. Pick a postalz ID and get started in 30 seconds.

PostSecret is a community art project, where postcards are created off-line, using paper and ink, on a single theme (sharing secrets), and mailed to a blog, where they are scanned and showcased for other to read, With postalz you create postcards online and exchange with friends. You can also showcase your cards on the community, like postsecrets; but in postalz, it is not just about secrets. Add travel, art, poetry, relationship, cooking, humor, shopping etc to secerets, and you are likely to find a collection of the worlds most amazing postcards all created online.

Postcards are e-cards on steroids. In e-cards you pick an idea, and personalize the text, so most e-cards look almost the same. In postcards you start with a blank card - add personal pictures and video and art, and give it a completely personal look. It is as personal as your email. Unlike e-cards where all you get to save is a link for a few days, in postalz, you get a FREE postbox for life, where you save all postcards created, sent or received by you.

After you create a card, share privately with friends by sending them to their email ID or postalz ID. Only those people you send your postcard to are able to view it. If a postcard is forwarded by friends to others, they get to see it too. It works just like your email.

Simply hit reply, and postalz lets you compose your personal reply, and sends it back to your friends. Only “Reply All” is supported by postalz at this point of time.

Absolutely yes; you can modify the contents of the postcard you received, add/delete pictures or text, and send it back as a reply to your friends. It works just like email.

When a postcard loads, all the spots are animated in a sequence, indicating their presence. Click on view comments, to permanently display the spots. Take your mouse to each spot to read it. You can delete spot comments on your own postcard, or comments that you choose to put on other’s postcards.

Not at this point of time; postalz supports a selective list of spot comment icons that cannot be modified by user

Absolutely yes; what happens in this case is that the recipient will see your new postcard in their inbox.

You don’t have to do anything special. All postcards are automatically saved inside your postbox. You can also delete your sent/received postcards whenever you want.

Postalz does not require you to upload your own video on the postcard. You can use services such as YouTube, to upload your video and insert the video embed code on your postcard using ‘add video’ option.

Yes – Postalz postcard creator allows you to upload your own animated gifs as a picture. There may be instances when some animated gifs will not work. Postalz offers it own library of animated gifs that are refreshed periodically

Not at this point of time.

Postalz will soon provide automatic picture upload facility from your social network. You can upload any image from your desktop at this point of time.

Postalz does not support embedding widgets within the postcard, other than videos, at this point of time.

Simple – go to your contacts page in your postbox, and click ‘update my address book’

We have a very easy interface to upload your address book. Since this is a communication service, it is better you add your contacts to your address book, as first step.

Yes – provided your friend has signed up for Postalz service using the email ID you have on your address book.

If you have added your friend on your address book, and if he/she were to sign-up on postalz using the same ID, we will indicate the same on your address book.

You can report abuse with the spammed card and we shall look into the issue.Report Abuse links are available at the bottom of every postcard.

You can visit that person’s profile page and add him/her to your address book. After creating a postcard, send it to that person by picking the correct ID from your address book.

Yes – you can forward any postcard from community to your friend. However original creator name will appear at bottom of postcard

It is just like email. Type in email IDs of friends you want to send your postcard to, and postalz willd wild deliver an exact replica of your postcard inside their inbox. If you want to reply to a postcard you got in your mailbox, you need to click on reply. You need to be signed up on postalz service to either send or receive a postcard. If you want to just publish the postcard you composed on the community for public view and consumption, you need to address the postcard you compose, to the postalz community.

All postcards are private by default, and that means they are available to be viewed only between sender and receiver. If a recipient forwards the postcard, to others, they get to see it too. It works just like email.

If a postcard creator chooses to send his/her postcard to the community, everyone can see it.

Community postcards cannot be sent as a private card to someone. However if you like a card from the community and send it to your friends, your name will appear as the sender. Postcard will acknowledge the creator with his/her name at the bottom.

Yes – please email it to anyone you'd like.

Spam - How can I block someone from sending me postcards?
If you want to block a user from sending you a postcard , please report this to us using the report abuse at the bottom of the card or a report issue at the bottom of every page , we shall address this issue. Even if an unwanted user sends you a postcard, by adding you as a contact, your privacy is never compromised as your email ID is never made visible. Only postalz postmaster is responsible for postcard distribution to individual mail boxes.

27. Carry your postbox to your blog

28. Blog your postcard

29. Putting text on top of pictures – how do I do it?

30. Pictures lot of time to upload – how do I speed up?

31. Want to use a picture as postcard background – but full size image upload option is not big enough.

32. Images get distorted when stretched – how do I avoid that?

33. Want to put my own video on a postcard – not sure how to go about it.

34. How do I generate handwritten text?

35. How do I bring an image from the back to the front, or reverse?

36. Can I generate my own banners?

37. Can I use other utilities on web to create cool text and banners?

38. I dont know what kind of postcards to create?Can you share some ideas.

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