December 28th 1998 (Special Issue)

At the New Year Eve we all want to express you our deepest thanks for your continuing support of the our network. If a postcard had brought you at least one smile or a little cheer last year we consider our work done.

Let 1999 be the happiest year of your life!

And before I will tell you a few of our New Year secret plans - shortcut to our New Year Cards directory (20+ sites now and will be more by the time you get there).

New Year Cards from Personal Postcards Network

Now what we plan for the New Year?

More features, more effects, more personalization, more interactivity - everything you requested

And you can preview some upcoming features right now!

I. Send cards at later date

The most requested feature so far is available at two sites now. You can send cards 20 days in advance and your recipient will never know it was not sent the same day!

Bowcreek Postcards

Castle Mountain Postcards

Coming soon: send cards 3 months in advance. More sites will add this feature soon.

II. Send cards to multiple recipients

We still consider postcards as personal communication tool unfit for spam purposes. That's why we disabled multisend options. Recently a new member had implemented something really cool and innovative - personalized multicards.

Corny Cards

If you are lost for words you can "generate" here a random message that still looks really personal.

And here we come to

III. Ready made personal messages

It's only a first sign of something new coming... Send your friends, co-workers, lovers their weekly horoscope or their compatibility with your own sign!

Astrological Greetings Cards from LuckNet

We can disclose a secret and tell you that one site prepares personalized poetry selections. You name occasion, feeling you want to express, personal preferences and ... voila - you are sending a unique poem suitable exactly for this purpose!

IV. More Effects !

Now we know you all love java visual effects - cards with lake reflections, snow pictures, rocket fireworks and slideshows were the most popular this year.

The pioneer in making them popular on postcards was Laurie of Bowcreek Postcards with virtual fireworks and beautiful lake applets. Then Patricia of CardWeb had added really cool Anfy Java applets.

Cardweb

Recently we reached a deal with Fabio Ciucci, leader of Anfy Java team and the next year lots of cool cards with unique visual effects utilizing full power of Anfy Java will be available for you.

WebTV users - it's time to lobby your network to hurry them in implementing java support for WebTV!

V. More great offers for you!

JMarbe2387@aol.com wrote: "What a wonderful idea. How do you support the postcard site if you are producing a free newsletter and all these different postcard ideas? Is there a contribution for the postcards?"

Folks, the greatest contribution from you is your attention and support! We also just LOVE getting this kind of support:

"By sending postcards, by the way, I have gotten alot of people online that thought they weren't interested (CAN you imagine?) or hadn't had the exposure. Getting them all out there by the numbers now, they're buying and surfing and learning and getting with the program so to speak. Being online about 2 months myself, of course, I am becoming an expert. Seriously, it might interest you to know that in this short time I have made big changes and actually shop online about 80% at this point. Even groceries. Click on 90% ads/merchants at sites I surf/utilize and encourage every one/educate them the same. Many purchases have come from sending/receiving postcards. Important and wanted to pass that along. - Pam"

(Thank you! Be sure we read all letters, just can't answer all. Pam, if you are reading this - write back, we have a special offer for you).

We always tried to select only ads worth your attention and next year we will present you more great offers from honest and reliable Internet merchants.