Snailmail Photos To Friends With Facebook’s New Postcards Feature

Hey, Bryan from Sincerely here. If you want a similar integration with your app or service, we have a simple web api: <a href="http://dev.sincerely.com" rel="nofollow">http://dev.sincerely.com</a>

Still don't know why Facebook doesn't sell collated physical photo albums. I would without a doubt order ones for my wedding, multiple of our kids birth and birthdays (for grandparents as presents), along with other special events like graduations. You and your friends already upload the best pictures from these events to Facebook, just give me a way to select 20-30 and place them in a template to be printed and mailed.

While I haven't personally printed a photo in the past decade, the market is surprisingly large for photo printing services. A new revenue stream could be quite meaningful to Facebook as their ad revenue slows -- in 2011, Facebook did $3.7B in revenue while Shutterfly did $473M in revenue.

Oh yeah, Facebook keeps enough resolution now to make acceptable postcards. Now if they would just keep basic metadata, they'd be an acceptable import source for all kinds of other services.

What a great way to get addresses!

Does anyone use "postcards" features? I've seen this on cell phones since about 2003 when they started getting cameras, but I've never heard of anyone ever sending or receiving one.