Things Are Disappearing Because Millennials Just Don’t Want To Pay For Them Anymore
Postcards Are A Dying Breed
Since teenagers and 20-year-olds today prefer selfies over the tradition of mailing postcards and personalized sentiments, postcards have quickly become the latest endangered commodity. It was a sad day indeed when J Salmon, England’s oldest postcard company, announced it would be closing its doors in 2017.
By the mid-’90s, more than 20 million postcards were sold to customers every year. By 2017, that number had dipped down to a mere five or six million, a sign that the end was near for the once-thriving industry thanks to modern services like Instagram and Facebook.
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