Postikadi

Postikadi (kutoka ing. post card) ni aina ya barua isiyo na bahasha. Kwa kawaida ni kipande cha kistatili cha karatasi ngumu chenye ujumbe mfupi unaotumwa kwa posta.

Mara nyingi postikadi huwa na picha upande mmoja halafu anwani, stempu na ujumbe mfupi upande wa kinyume. Gharama ya postikadi ni kidogo chini ya gharama ya barua katika bahasha.

Ilhali postikadi haina bahasha ujumbe wake unaweza kusomwa na kila mtu anayeishiska. Kadi hizi zilianza kutumiwa kuanzia miaka ya 1860. Tangu kuwa na bei ndogo kuliko barua idadi ya postikadi kati ya barua iliongezeka. Baada ya kupatikana kwa simu za mkononi, sms na barua pepe postikadi zimepungua sana. Bado zinatumiwa hasa na watu waliosafiri wakitaka kutuma picha ya mahali walipofika.

Kadi za posta za kwanza zilipendekezwa na mkurugenzi wa posta ya Prussia Heinrich von Stefan mnamo 1865, lakini pendekezo lake lilikataliwa kwa sababu mamlaka iliona "umbo lisilofaa kwa kutuma ujumbe"^[1] Lakini kwenye mwaka 1869 fomati hiyo ilikubaliwa na posta ya Austria-Hungaria ikafanyikiwa na kuenea.^[2]

1. ↑ Historia ya postikadi.
2. ↑ Tweeting by mail: The postcard’s stormy birth , tovuti ya Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2013

• The Postcard Traders association—Represents professionals within the UK postcard industry.
• The International Federation of Postcard Dealers—Represents professional postcard dealers worldwide.
• Japanese Postcard Collecting Research きのう屋日本の絵葉書コレクション
• Postcards Collection - The collection of postcards from around the world Archived 23 Mei 2017 at the Wayback Machine.
• Bowden Postcard Collection Online Archived 6 Machi 2016 at the Wayback Machine.. Approximately 10,000 digitized postcards, maintained by the Walter Havighurst Special Collections in the Miami University Libraries.
• abadie.co.uk Archived 23 Oktoba 2016 at the Wayback Machine., currently the only book of classic John Hinde postcards with the senders messages transcribed
• johnhindecollection.com, a website dedicated to John Hinde Postcards
• "Plowman Family Postcard Collection". University of St. Michael's College, John M. Kelly Library. Ilihifadhiwa kwenye nyaraka kutoka chanzo mnamo 2017-06-30. Iliwekwa mnamo 15 Oktoba 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link)