This week we got a request that sounded simple enough: find postcards for each of the four Disney World theme parks (plus a couple of favorite rides). There was just one catch - the front of each postcard needed to have the park name in text. Oh... and the postcards had to be landscape (they were for a Disney vacation scrapbook project). "Sure", we said, "no problem".
I guess postcards are starting to be phased out at Disney World. It has been so long since we've sent any that we really had not been paying attention to the fact that the postcard supply is dwindling. No matter where we shopped from parks to hotel gift shops, we saw the same dozen or so postcard designs.
We can remember looking at display racks that were full of postcards. Today, the cards are not only hard to find, they're are pretty pricey. A single postcard that we picked up for Soarin' at Epcot cost $2 - it was the only one and we didn't even really like it.
Finding postcards with the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios or Animal Kingdom written across the front was nearly impossible to find... unless you wanted to buy a 10-pack of cards for $6 each. Ultimately, that's exactly what we had to do. The cards came in a long folded strip that needed to be separated by hand at the perforations.So... I guess that's progress. Communication has become more instant (unlike the postcards that used to arrive about 2 weeks after we got home from our Disney vacations). Why send a postcard when you can quickly update friends using e-mail or social media. Honestly, I still enjoy receiving an old-fashioned postcard. It looks like they may soon become a thing of the past...