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Has modern technology overtaken ‘snail mail’ to the extent that the latter is no longer useful for short trips? My latest experience suggests the answer is yes…definitely yes.
I sent a dozen or so postcards to friends in Australia from Germany one week into my recent overseas trip with two weeks still to go before my return home. I also sent most of these friends an email or two when the internet service allowed.
Not one of my postcards beat me home. Perversely, all of the postcards I sent to friends at the hospital were amongst the mail I collected from the Hospital’s mail room as part of my volunteer’s role on my first day back at work and I delivered them by hand to the addressees. I might as well have carried the cards home myself and saved on the stamps! Just as perversely, the card I sent to the Nursing Home arrived the next day, a few hours after my return to work there.
All of my emails to the same recipients arrived without delay and were welcomed, even the one liners, as evidence that I was alive and well and having fun. Frankly my impression is the emails were welcomed more than the postcards.
Tempis Fugit (even if the postcards do not).
Someone for me 
>This has happened to us too. I am not sure where the problem is, as it happens when sending from third world and first world countries. We haven't received your post card yet.
>Andrew – yours will be hand delivered.