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There is something wonderful getting a postcard, and it is such a shame that nobody seems to send them anymore, it is very rare that one ever comes through my letterbox. We should not forget about these traditions.

What a nice idea!
Well done British Airways, and well done Kayte for highlighting this.
I too remember sitting behind one of those wind-breaks on the beach and writing cards. I had to buy the card from my pocket money but my parents always bought the stamps !
Looking out at our ruined pier in Hastings is so sad and so this little story has just made my day.

I agree with the above comments, I used to love going to buy my postcards with my pocket money and writing to my grandparents and Aunts and Uncles when I was away on holiday. It seems now that all kids are interested in is what the latest phone is and texting one answer messages. It is about time old traditions like writing a postcard came back. Texting and e-mailing has a lot to answer for as it is so impersonal.

Its up to the parents to encourage their children to start writing again and not give into them and let technology take over. Kids need to know how to communicate in other ways other than mobile phones and network sites.

I think we would have a big fight on our hands trying to get our kids to revert back to writing postcards when they can quite simply just send a text. It is sad but true, some traditions are truly gone.

I agree with Julia, getting kids off their mobile phones texting, twittering or whatever it is they do, I feel is impossible. My Grandchildren barely know how to hold a conversation, let alone write properly!

What great idea, but I am not sue that many children have the writing skills or even the imagination to write a postcard. Last week we received a email thank you card' for an eighteenth birthday present.

I agree with Kayte's comments. As a child I used to take great care in choosing which card I should send to each of my relatives and friends. I have an 8 year old daughter and she always sends postcards to family and firends when we go on holiday. My parents spend half of the year abroad and my daughter loves getting postcards from them. Come on brits lets not let yet another great tradition disappear

I think this is a great initiative and it needs to be encouraged by parents to get children writing postcards again. It is a such a shame that these traditions are disappearing into the past.

As I child I was always excited if a postcard or letter arrive in the mail. I encourage my daughter to send poast cards and she often wends little cards to family and friends in the post, so lets not tar all children with the samw brush, the parents are the one\'s to blame.

I often look through postcards that I receievd when I was a child,(I am now a 39 year old woman!). Remembering people I met and where I went brings back such fond memories and Iencourage my child do send them whenever we go on holiday and hse enjoy's receiving them.

I just love this article.
It would be so nice to go back a few decades when children and their parents did this kind of thing together.

Whenever i go on holiday i always send postcards to my family to let them no we are all ok and how the holiday is going. As with Zoe my grandparents spend the winter abroad and I love getting postcards from them!

Well I am one of those 1 in 10! Where ever I go I always make sure to send a postcard to my family! Call me old fashioned but I think postcards are a tradition that should be carried on through the generations.