Postcard Service Discontinued!
Choose a postcard template.

The Swiss Post is discontinuing it's postcard service for small businesses. Therefore the "real postcard" interface implemented in Posterino will stop working on July 1st, 2009!

The good new is, the postcard coupons you bought are not lost! Even after July 1st! You simple have to process your postcards using the Swiss Post web site instead of the postcard interface built into Posterino:

  1. Create your postcard in Posterino
  2. Choose the Export toolbar button and than the Save to Disk option
  3. Visit the Swiss Post Postcard Website (http://www.swisspostcard.ch). You can switch the language using the links on the top left of the page!
  4. Choose Private customers
  5. Start creating your postcard by clicking the Design postcards now button and use the saved image as own image
  6. Complete your postcard and pay with the coupon code you purchased

Sending a postcard

You can send real postcards right from within Posterino.

To send a postcard:

  1. Create a new document

    Start Posterino or create a new document by choosing New... from the File menu. Select a postcard template. Because you can place your message text on the back of your postcard, a template just holding images makes a good start. For example, we choose the "Twisted Post" template:

    Choose a postcard template.
    Choose a postcard template.
  2. Design your postcard

    Move your images into the placeholder frames as usual. Do whatever you need to do to design your card. In our example we removed one frame from the document to give our spooky black & white shot more space:

    A sample design step.
    A sample design step.
  3. Upload the postcard

    To display the mail options, choose the Mail toolbar button (or press Command-Shift-K):

    Select a mail option.
    Select a mail option.

    Choose Send as Postcard to start the upload process.

  4. Enter the postcard details

    After the postcard image has been successfully uploaded, you will see the following screen:

    Postcard details.
    Postcard details.

    In the Address Book Lookup field at the top of the sheet you can perform a lookup of your Mac OS X Address Book. If a unique result can be found, the persons address is automatically filled into the form. Hit the Tab key to jump from the search field right to the message field and enter your message. As a last detail, choose a payment method. There are several payment methods available:

    • PayPal Use your PayPal account to pay for your postcard.
    • Coupon Code Choose this option to enter a coupon code for payment.
    • Mobile Phone This payment method is available in Austria, Germany and Switzerland only! Enter your mobile phone number and you will receive a SMS with a request to confirm your payment.
  5. Send your postcard

    Press the Send button to send your postcard. After your postcard has been successfully send, the address information are cleared from the form and you will see a message like this:

    Postcard details.
    Postcard details.

    If you like to send another postcard with the same image, proceed with step 4. If you send enough postcards for today, press the Close button.

Tips

To start the postcard upload process right away - without displaying the mail options - you can choose the menu item File > Export > Send as postcard (or press Command-Control-D).

The Address Book Lookup function is able to handle combined request for first-name and last-name. For example, say your are looking for "Peter Axmann" and there are several persons named "Peter" in your address book, so just looking for "Peter" reveals no unique hit. But if there is only one person with it's last-name starting with "A", you have the following options to find the right Peter:

On the other hand, Peter has such a unique last-name, that just entering "ax" will do the job equally well.

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