Comments on: Hazel Mail, A Dead Simple Way To Design And Ship Custom Postcards Worldwide

By: Egor Kunovsky

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:30:52 +0000

This one would not work with Cyrillic. Which is important for me since most of my recipients speak Russian.

By: Egor Kunovsky

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:58:16 +0000

Amazingmail seemed super-complicated to me when it comes to usability. I would not say that Hazel Mail has the cleanest interface I’ve ever seen, but I definitely did not need half of the screens and the forms Amazingmail made me fill before I could come any close to finally sending that card.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:29:53 +0000

This site is cool, however I found a better one…www.getposted.com!! It allows you to put a message on the front, which the other guys don’t let you do. Check that one out!! http://www.getposted.com

By: ido

ido — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:04:15 +0000

why is 20 words too much? (thats the error message i just got)

neat idea..nice layout and very convenient, especially when you dont feel like going out, finding a generic postcard and mailing it from an international location (yeah, im lazy like that)

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KillerStartups.com - HazelMail.com - Let Hazel Mail It — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:48:07 +0000

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By: wes

wes — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:58:22 +0000

I think this is a good simple idea. Its always good to have a choice and for some of us who are artistic its a good chance to impress.

By: ZingerSteve

ZingerSteve — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:07:14 +0000

There are a lot of people doing this kind of service, whether geared toward consumers or B2B. It’s a tough sell. In some ways, I wonder if the world just isn’t ready for it yet. Sending postcards while traveling might take longer to transition to the digital age, if it ever does at all.

By: baah-baah-the-black-sheep

baah-baah-the-black-sheep — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:46:02 +0000

Mr Kincaid, why the inconsistency?
First you declare the death of business card by means of shaking an iPhone or some other elaborate action and now you are in love with this dead-tree carbon emitting air-miles business.
Deadpool in a few months.

Look, I am an insider to this web2print game. I’ve seen about a dozen of people trying really hard to get something like this off the ground. With ads, without ads, with corporate support, without corporate support. They just didn’t get any hits no matter how big the button was and even on really high trafficked sites.

PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO SEND POSTCARDS FROM A COMPUTER.
2 exceptions:
- a card is sent in anger (campaigning)
- it’s them on the card and they have no other means of obtaining the image

So, why did you pick these kids?
They ain’t the first, they ain’t the best, they ain’t any more different than 100 others before them.

When you travel there are minutes when you hang around the town with nothing to do, nowhere to go. You buy a bunch of cards, sit down at a cafe and fill the time writing messages and licking stamps. This is how people do it offline.
If they go to an iNet cafe they just email the photos.

One chap put ads right on monitors in downtown iNet cafes and hostels in Melb, AU and still wasn’t getting orders. Tells you something, doesn’t it?

By: Adult Social Networking

Adult Social Networking — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:23:15 +0000

that is very good service, as long as they use USPS – United state postal service or they will loose mail

By: guruz

guruz — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:58:39 +0000

Ok, nowhere is of course wrong, it is somewhere hidden in the terms of use. I want to use paypal though and not yet another membership here and there

By: guruz

guruz — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:57:10 +0000

Wanted to try it 5 minutes ago to send a card to my gf in Norway (I live in Germany). Since they didn’t write anywhere on the page on how I can pay for the card and sending an e-mail to them gets me a “Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently” I gave up on it.

By: Nav

Nav — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:56:54 +0000

Great idea. Takes out the cost of actually buying, filling out and then mailing the post cards. I’d pay for this service.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:41:24 +0000

AmazingMail is still in the consumer space. But, as you can see by this thread, the consumer space is challenging.. However, AmazingMail will be making a big push back into the consumer space, with a mobile application, due to launch before the upcoming holidays. And, you will be able to send a card from anywhere in the world you have a connection, to anywhere in the world mail is delivered.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:08:58 +0000

Closest competitor, huh. Nice research, TechCrunch.

Amazingmail.com has been around for years; I’ve used it since 2003 at least. They look more B2B now, but the consumer options are still there. Great fun to be able to send custom postcards.

By: Angie Chang

Angie Chang — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:47:17 +0000

Interesting idea… why not. I would also like to pick the random “cool” stamp to put on the postcard, is that OK?

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:35:44 +0000

Agreed. TC should just remove URL links from comments here. It would improve comment quality instantly.

By: JC

JC — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:32:39 +0000

I think it’s a cool idea, as long as it’s international. Sending postcards from abroad is a required, annoying tradition, since it’s SO hard to figure out postage and figure out where to send things from. Would be so sweet to do it from a internet cafe.

HOWEVER, half the fun of stupid postcards are that the recipient gets the stamp from the foreign country…am I going to send you something from ‘athens’ but it’s going to have a US stamp sent from San Francisco on it?

By: TC-Comments: The Game

TC-Comments: The Game — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:21:44 +0000

Right, like pricing structure doesn’t matter. WTF?

There is also:
1) Ease of use
2) branding on the card (which cardstore seems to be tied to)

By: RMeyer

RMeyer — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:02:46 +0000

Each of the aforementioned businesses are very similar to Cardstore.com (http://www.cardstore.com), a site that has been around since the early dotcom days. Only difference is pricing structure.

By: david

david — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:49:56 +0000

why not send an audio at http://postcard.fm ? it’s totally free and totally customizable.

By: Chris Banach

Chris Banach — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:36:39 +0000

actually we do, it’s called a CEIVA FRAME. http://www.ceiva.com/

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:16:35 +0000

Nice site, and it may appeal to folks sending christmas cards or party invitations, but it doesn’t seem to connect with the usual postcard-sending audience of tourists. Wait about 50 years though and maybe you’ll see some of these on cardcow as nostalgic collectibles from the early 21st century.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:15:45 +0000

That’s good to know Justin. Looks like you all have a great thing going (and I hate most startups )

You may want to remove anything from your FAQs that are not FAQs

By: Lurking_Grue

Lurking_Grue — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:14:37 +0000

This is cool.

I can send photo’s to my mom…

I am so lazy when it comes to mailing anything.