Incredibly, it costs just £1.08 to send 'Wish You Were Here's' from Cancun, however it can take up to three weeks for the postcard to arrive. France and Italy cost £2.19 per average postcard, which compared to the £1.94 price for reporting home from the US, does come as a surprise.
It costs twice as much to send a traditional postcard back to the UK from Italy and France than it does to send one more than 5000 miles home from Mexico, as revealed by handy postcard app, ‘Race It Home‘.
The Apple and Android app, which allows users to send their holiday snaps as personalised postcards without the hassle of searching for foreign stamps and postcards, compared the price of average postcard and stamp costs across 12 popular holiday destinations.
Incredibly, it costs just £1.08 to send ‘Wish You Were Here’s’ from Cancun, however it can take up to three weeks for the postcard to arrive. France and Italy cost £2.19 per average postcard, which compared to the £1.94 price for reporting home from the US, does come as a surprise.
Understandably, costs from Australia are high, topping the chart at a whopping £2.25. The Maldives seems amazingly affordable given the distance, at £1.28 per postcard, however they can take up to two weeks to arrive.
Race It Home is cheaper than buying postcards and stamps abroad, with credits from just 99p which can be purchased before jetting off. Recipients’ addresses can also be saved in advance to make it even easier to send personalised holiday snap postcards whilst relaxing by the poolside. Users simply snap a photo, type in a brief message and select a friend. The app automatically recognises which country the user is in and adds the relevant flag to the reverse of the postcard. Then comes the really clever bit: the cards are printed in the United Kingdom within hours and popped into the postal system. This ensures they take only 1-5 days to arrive (depending on the delivery service chosen), ensuring that the postcard always wins the race back home.
With a choice of A5 or A6 sizes and standard or priority postage, postcards printed on quality, glossy card arrive in days, not weeks. Credits can be bought using PayPal or major credit or debit cards and cost from 99p per A6 postcard depending on the selected delivery option and number of credits bought at one time.
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