Postcard vs. Email — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Postcard and Email
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Postcard
A postcard or post card is a piece of thick paper or thin cardboard, typically rectangular, intended for writing and mailing without an envelope. Non-rectangular shapes may also be used but are rare.
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices. Email entered limited use in the 1960s, but users could only send to users of the same computer.
Postcard
A printed card with space on one side for an address and a postage stamp, used for sending a short message through the mail.
Messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network
Reading email has become the first task of the morning
Email messages
Postcard
See postal card.
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Postcard
A rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended to be written on and mailed without an envelope. In the case of a picture postcard one side carries a picture or photograph.
A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over a computer network.
Postcard
(transitive) To send a postcard to.
To postcard one's friends
A message or messages sent or received by such a system.
Postcard
(transitive) To send by means of a postcard.
To postcard one's news
To send (someone) an email
I'll email you when I know my schedule.
Postcard
A card for sending messages by post without an envelope
To send (a message) by email.
(uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually through a network.
Snail mail
He sent me his details via email.
The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
(uncountable) A quantity of messages sent through an email system.
I am searching through my old email.
My inbox used to allow only 50 MB of email at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
(countable) A message sent through an email system.
He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.
I archive my old emails using a cloud-based service.
An email address.
What’s your email?
Don’t send personal messages to my work email.
(transitive) To send an email or emails to.
She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.
To send (something) through email.
I’ll email you the link.
He emailed the file out to everyone.
(intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.
Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.
(computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in
Communicate electronically on the computer;
She e-mailed me the good news
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