The recognition of letters and views amongst Czechs is lowering. That is proven by Czech Publish information out there to CT. Quite the opposite, digital Postcards On-line are gaining in reputation, the state enterprise prints and delivers over one million of them yearly.
Tadeáš Šátek has been going to scout camps for a decade, first as a participant, now as a pacesetter. As he himself observes, in recent times he has been giving out fewer letters to youngsters than when he went to camp when he himself was younger. “Letters are in all probability lowering as extra youngsters take their telephones with them,” he believes.
As an alternative of images of animals or cartoon heroes, youngsters are sometimes laughed at by their kin or buddies on the entrance of the postcard. “Of the roughly fifty views that the kids obtained on the camp, about half have been despatched on-line. Generally a photograph of a household or a canine makes them completely satisfied, they’re particularly completely satisfied to have obtained one thing,” says the younger chief.
Mailboxes and branches are disappearing
Whereas within the first half of 2017 folks despatched over 159 million letters and views, this yr solely 64 million went via the mail throughout the identical interval. “The variety of letter shipments, which embody traditional postcards, is lowering yearly. It’s associated to the more and more widespread digital type of communication,” explains Czech Publish spokesman Ivo Vysoudil.
However the causes are sometimes much more prosaic – yearly within the Czech Republic, some mailboxes, generally even whole branches, disappear. Final yr, for instance, the submit workplace canceled 300 of them, and a few thousand traditional orange mailboxes disappeared within the Czech Republic.
Regardless of the lowering curiosity in bizarre writing, the recognition of postcards from your individual pictures is growing. Prospects add them to the applying together with the handle and textual content. The submit workplace will then print and ship the postcard. “There are at present round 165,000 energetic customers of Postcard On-line, and their quantity is rising,” says Vysoudil. “From 2021, the restrict of 1 million printed Postcards On-line was exceeded yearly,” he provides.
