Postcards: romantic and unique letterheads

With the popularization of cell phones and networks, traditional postal communications have gradually faded out of people's lives. But postcards still have a certain market, especially some of the tourist attractions as the theme of the postcard, is still more popular. This small card carrying people's good wishes and how was invented?

The history of the postcard is not very long, it was invented by the German painter Leitersm in 1865. One day in October of that year, Leitsem was about to write a letter to his distant friend. While writing the letter he had a sudden idea to write a rather special letter for his friend. He decided to write on one side of the letter and draw on the other. In order not to let the light through the picture and affect his friend's ability to read the letter, he got a piece of cardboard.

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Leitersme drew a very nice picture on one side of the cardboard, wrote his wishes on the other side, and then went to the post office to mail it to his friend. When Wrightsome arrived at the post office to take out his carefully prepared "letter", the post office staff had a problem. Because the post office did not have a suitable envelope that could hold Lettersm's letter, and because Lettersm's letter was written on cardboard, it was not easy to fold, and even if it could be folded, it would damage the picture. What to do about that?

Finally, the post office staff gave him an idea: If you can't, then you don't need an envelope, just write the recipient's address on the letter and put a stamp on it, so that the recipient can receive the letter and it won't damage the letter. "The letter will not be damaged. Leitsem also thought this was a good idea, so he agreed to the post office staff's suggestion. And so the first postcard was born.

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Leitersheim's special letter soon spread through the German postal system, and everyone found this form of "letter" very good. In the same year on November 30, the German Postal Federation of a congress, some people will be proposed to promote the promotion of this kind of Leitersham does not need an envelope "letter". But because of the delegates' different opinions, this proposal was not adopted. However, Leitersham's "bright letter" with both pictures and content has begun to develop slowly in the civil society because of its novelty and convenience.

In 1869, a doctor in Austria, which is also part of the European continent, published an article introducing this kind of postcard, and also suggested to the government that postcards should be developed and classified as printed mail in order to reduce the price of postage. The Austrian government quickly adopted the doctor's suggestion, and on October 1 of the same year, the Austrian post office officially issued postcards. Thus Austria became the first country in the world to issue postcards. Postcards in the beginning of the issue of people's favorite and sought after, the Austrian government issued postcards in just three months, there are more than 3 million postcards were mailed, which is no one expected.

Postcards

Postcards at the beginning of the invention of the postcard, each country has its own name for it, the Chinese translation is also a lot of, the name is not uniform. In the 1880s, the Chinese Li Gui coined the term "postcard", and the name postcard was established in China.