Quest for postcards
Mar. 7th, 2022 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebI've been wanting postcards to help me speak out rather than stand idly by. But it's been trouble. Should this be a learning-new-tricks post? Are postcards not a thing anymore? I think they are still sold for tourists, but I guess I don't know anymore, and I was hoping for a cheaper bulk option. I do know there are currently postcard-writing campaigns to get out the vote, but is that just a fluke?
So the obvious place to go was Austin Creative Reuse. All they have are "vintage" postcards. Sometimes. A bit pricier than I'd hoped for.
I tried various other places to no avail.
Finally I went to my local post office. The post office sells plain white postcards with the postage already printed on them for just the price of the postage. But you have to drive there and wait in line. It was time to exercise my car, so this was my excuse.
They did not have any. They said the central post office "might" have some. This is like how my local credit union does not have any cash (except from the ATM, which doesn't understand that sometimes I want a bunch of $5 bills for tips or a bunch of $1 bills for bus fare).
So I looked online. I don't want to buy from Amazon for reasons. Etsy was weird. But supposedly drug stores and Target have postcards. So I looked again today.
Walgreens - I looked with the greeting cards and with the office supplies/envelopes. Nope.
Dollar Tree - Same.
Target - Same. So then I asked someone at the service desk, and he said they have only one kind and told me the aisle, which I'd already been to. (This was the aisle with boxed sets of note cards, FYI.) I checked very thoroughly, and no.
Staples - Surely. Went to the aisle with envelopes where an employee offered to help, and he took me to the other corner of the store with the computer stuff and showed me packages of postcards, four to a page with perforations, for your printer. I took one. Victory!
I never would have thought to look there.
These postcards are completely blank. I could decorate them! But I decided instead to use one side just like an envelope and then use the whole other side to write my concerns. That's probably going to work, right?
So the obvious place to go was Austin Creative Reuse. All they have are "vintage" postcards. Sometimes. A bit pricier than I'd hoped for.
I tried various other places to no avail.
Finally I went to my local post office. The post office sells plain white postcards with the postage already printed on them for just the price of the postage. But you have to drive there and wait in line. It was time to exercise my car, so this was my excuse.
They did not have any. They said the central post office "might" have some. This is like how my local credit union does not have any cash (except from the ATM, which doesn't understand that sometimes I want a bunch of $5 bills for tips or a bunch of $1 bills for bus fare).
So I looked online. I don't want to buy from Amazon for reasons. Etsy was weird. But supposedly drug stores and Target have postcards. So I looked again today.
Walgreens - I looked with the greeting cards and with the office supplies/envelopes. Nope.
Dollar Tree - Same.
Target - Same. So then I asked someone at the service desk, and he said they have only one kind and told me the aisle, which I'd already been to. (This was the aisle with boxed sets of note cards, FYI.) I checked very thoroughly, and no.
Staples - Surely. Went to the aisle with envelopes where an employee offered to help, and he took me to the other corner of the store with the computer stuff and showed me packages of postcards, four to a page with perforations, for your printer. I took one. Victory!
I never would have thought to look there.
These postcards are completely blank. I could decorate them! But I decided instead to use one side just like an envelope and then use the whole other side to write my concerns. That's probably going to work, right?
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on 2022-03-08 11:20 am (UTC)no subject
on 2022-03-09 01:59 am (UTC)I'm not actually printing out the postcards but writing them by hand because a) I can't access the printer right now and more importantly, b) I think handwriting counts more somehow. I don't really get it. Politicians should just do scientific surveys and not be swayed just by money plus occasionally by a bunch of people complaining in the right ways.