The app Image It lets you quickly look up travel-relevant pictographs, such as a drawing of a stamp to indicate you want to buy one to mail a postcard, from an array of travel-related topics, from food to transport and medical emergency to shopping.

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The site also lets you send a Loch Ness Monster e-mail postcard, buy a book on the legend and study the X-files-like Ness Files.

BBC: By Internet Correspondent Chris Nuttall

When you get referred to see a hospital consultant, would you like a letter to be dictated and posted in an unsecured manner to a mail room in a hospital pushed round on a mail cart, opened by somebody processed and then a postcard sent to your house regarding the nature of the appointment and where you should turn up?

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Jenel Lee, who owned a one-bedroom condominium in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, received a postcard in the mail earlier this year from Sam Bryan, an agent representing a buyer that was ready to make an offer with a 50% down payment on a unit like hers.

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Insurers launched a postcard campaign that inundated Congress with mail, and bought TV ads with actors depicting outraged citizens.

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New services like Postagram will send a postcard with a personalized photo and message, stamp it and stick it in the mail.

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