Can I send maxi cards by just writing the address on the postcard and dropping it in the postbox, or should I affix a new stamp?

Recently, I sent two like that. Will it get delivered?

what if a new peep who has just started snail mailing wants to make a handmade postcard?

what kind of paper should I use?

are there any GSM regulations?

what is the weight supposed to be?

i did stumble upon a post where someone had put up a link to a document, officially, probably, from the india post website but i cannot find it now

Hi everyone!

I recently made around 60 movie-poster-style postcards, and I’d love to do a postcard swap with fellow members!

I’ve uploaded all the designs to a Google Drive folder. If you’d like to swap:

1. Pick any movie poster design you like from the folder
2. Send me a screenshot of the one you selected
3. I’ll check if it’s still available and reserve it for you
4. I’ll mail it to your address, and in return, I’d love to receive a postcard from your country/city too 😊

Open to INDIA exchanges!

Please comment below first and then DM/chat me your screenshot + mailing details.

Happy swapping and collecting! ✨📬

LINK:-

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Jvv2D5sazSoRN3ePfdcPpnRsWIsDwKgg?usp=drive_link

Hi everyone,

I’m Lena from Belgium, and I’m looking for postcard swaps with people who would be willing to write something on the card in their own language/dialect/alphabet.

It can be a personal message, a fragment from a book or poem, or simply something beautiful or ordinary from daily life that you want to tell me about. I love looking at different languages (even if I don't speak them), alphabets, scripts and handwriting styles, all of them unique expressions of a certain place and culture.

In return, I can send you a postcard from Belgium with something written in Flemish or even the dialect of my regio,, if you like 😊. I have lots of different themes of cards to choose from: city views, art/history/archaeology, photography, botanical, anatomical, Harry Potter, Japanese woodblock prints...

I also love beautiful stamps and always put care into the cards I send.

Feel free to DM me if you’d like to exchange addresses.

So yesterday, I visited my post office HO for some stamps and the person showed me a special stamp. It was a colourful circular shaped paper with 5 square stamps cut out in it. Each of those 5 stamps had value of Rs 55 written on them. The executive said that the whole circular stamp costs 55 and if I want to use it, I have to attach all 5 stamps to the letter/envelope.

Is this true, or is the value of each stamp is 55 and in total the value of whole circular paper in which these 5 stamps are is 275? The reason I am asking is because no one in the post office in my city knows anything about ordinary post. The oldest person over there has been working for the last 10 years and he has never seen anyone use ordinary post.

I am sure this has been asked many times, but I have never used ordinary post. I have recently started writing letters and this is the first time I am using India Post Ordinary mail service. The reason I am asking is that I have seen a few posts saying that letters are not delivered or they get lost or get delayed for a long time. What is your experience about this? Is there anything I should know about this or take any precaution?