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Yellow Postcard is the most affordable option to send postcards within India. Its a prepaid postcard that requires no extra stamps, and its available at every post office. This post shows 3 easy steps to send these yellow postcards in our country.

1. Visit the nearest Post Office and buy Yellow Postcards

2. Write the message and receiver's address on the postcard

3. Drop the Yellow Postcard in a red postbox, and you're done!

Its easy to get started with postcards in India as these postcards cost half of a rupee and anyone regardless of the financial background can buy and send them to their friends and family members, even in the remotest village of India.

Yellow postcard has space on front and back side. It's enough to write a decent-sized message. Its also allowed to doodle, draw, paint, color, print, and embroider on this postcard. Use your creativity and surprise your friends with a unique postcard. People also send yellow postcards from their trips to other indian cities/state. Steps are the same for every location, even if you're travelling to other location in the country.

What are you waiting for? Send your first Yellow Postcard and let us know your experience :)

Next post will be uploaded soon about sending a picture postcard.

^(note: this is a repost and its being shared again as many new members joined since this was posted last time.)

There are five things that you can get from Post Office besides stamps. These are the prepaid items that comes with printed stamp. You just need to use them and drop it in the letterbox or hand over at the counter at a post office.

Each of these items are for inland use (sent within India) except Aerogramme, which can only be sent outside india.

1. Meghdoot Postcard:

This postcard has advertisement on the left side of the address and it costs ₹0.25 per postcard. It's a prepaid postcard with printed 25 paise (₹0.25) stamp. Prepaid means we don't need to stick any extra stamps, write and drop the postcard in the letterbox. We can write on the back side of the card that comes blank for writing the message. This postcard is subject to availability.

2. Yellow Postcard:

This postcard is similar to Meghdoot Postcard but it costs ₹0.50 and has no advertisement on the address side of the postcard. We have ample of space to write, i.e. left side and the back side of the card. It is a prepaid item with 50 paise (₹0.50) stamp. Its easily available at every post office.

3. Inland Letter Card:

This is a foldable letter and It is used to write longer messages or letters. It costs ₹2.5 per letter card and its comes printed with a stamp, so we don't need to stick any additional stamps. Any enclosure isn't allowed within this letter. Back side is for writing the message, once the message is written, we need to fold twice and glue the flaps. Then its required to write recipient's address, and our address on the other side. This is easily available at every post office.

4. Envelope:

This can be found at every post office and it costs ₹5 per envelope. Its a prepaid like other items and no extra stamps are needed for enclosures upto 20g. If the weight exceeds, extra stamps needs to be applied. Please check the weight of the envelope and then apply the stamps accordingly. Rates for domestic letter is listed in the pinned post of this subreddit. Max allowed weight for letter (envelope) is 500g.

5. Aerogramme:

It's lightweight foldable letter like Inland Letter Card and the only major difference is that it can only be sent outside india. For sending within india, use Inland letter cards that cost 2.5rs. Its slightly larger than Inland card. Aerogramme costs ₹8.5 but to send it abroad, total of ₹20 stamp is required. This means additional ₹11.5 of stamps needs to be applied on it. Enclosure within aerogramme isn't allowed. Letter is written on the back side and its folded twice. At last its flaps are glued. It is subject to availability.

Reach out to your nearest Sub Post Office, Head Post Office, or General Post Office to buy these postal stationary items. Thank you for reading!

These are Regular stamps, also known as Definitive stamps or postage stamps. These stamps are used to pay postage of ordinary post articles like postcards, letters, aerogramme, and others. We don't pay money at the counter to send postcard or letters, instead stamps are bought from the post office and affixed on the top-right corner according to their rates. Once these stamps are applied on the ordinary post items, they are dropped in the red letterbox.

Stamps are available at every post offices. If you want every stamp seen in the picture, you might need to go to bigger post office such as Head Post Office (HO) and General Post Office (GPO). Sometimes certain stamps gets out-of-stock at smaller post offices (Branch Post Office and Sub Post Office). In that case, visit to bigger post office might be required.

There is a value associated with every stamp which is written on either top-left or top-right corner of the stamp. Just like paper money or coin money, they come in various denominations. It available from 25 paise (0.25rs) to 50 rupees. These are regular/normal postage stamps and one can also get philately stamps (commemorative stamp) from Head Post Office or GPO. Its not covered in this post but they comes in different varieties and newer ones gets released frequently. Regular stamps stays the same.

I hope this post helped those who are still new to sending postcards and letters. Stamps is important part of sending them. Feel free to ask any question in the comments.