This is genuinely a cool concept: Postcards are sort of old-fashioned, but there’s still something satisfying about getting someone’s written word from the road. A big problem is that many postcards just plain suck. They’re boring. The same photo you’ve seen a thousand times.

Enter a new site, HazelMail, which lets you upload an image of your choice, type in your message, and hit send. HazelMail prints it as a postcard, pays the postage, and mails it anywhere in the world for the flat rate of $1.50.

Sure, it won’t contain your scrawls or a cool stamp from a country your addressee hasn’t been to, but the postcard image will be yours and yours alone.

Clever!