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Postcard
A  postcard

A Rome postcard. (TV: The Faceless Ones)

A postcard was a type of written correspondence.

History[]

Samantha Briggs discovered that Chameleon Tours gave out stamped postcards to its young airline passengers for them to write before they departed, which were later sent abroad and posted back to England so their families would believe they had arrived safely. She realized her missing brother, Brian, wouldn't have had to be in Rome to send the postcard she received from him. (TV: The Faceless Ones)

Duggan bought a postcard of the Mona Lisa from a Parisian gift shop. (TV: City of Death)

While visiting Ostend with the Sixth Doctor in 1913, Peri Brown was going to send H. G. Wells a postcard. (AUDIO: Year of the Pig)

When Mel chose to part company with the Seventh Doctor in favour of travelling with Sabalom Glitz, she promised to send the Doctor a postcard. When the Doctor pointed out that he didn't have an address, Mel said that she would put in a bottle and throw it into space, stating that it would reach him "in time." (TV: Dragonfire)

When Midge went to Australia on holiday, he sent Ace a postcard saying how lonely he felt so far from home. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation)

Sam Jones sent her parents postcards from the planet Kursaal and one of her and the Eighth Doctor in a photobooth on Paphos. They started arriving around the Mars, 1997 mission. (PROSE: Unnatural History)

The Timey-wimey detector was made up of items including a Blackpool postcard. (TV: Blink)

While on Vallarasee, Donna Noble asked the Tenth Doctor whether or not she could send her grandfather a postcard from the 51st century, to which the Doctor did not know. (AUDIO: One Mile Down)

Brian Williams visited Siluria and sent back a postcard to Rory and Amy. (TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)

Physical postcards still existed in the 27th century, which surprised the Twelfth Doctor. (PROSE: Big Bang Generation)

In a square in Copenhagen was a shop which sold postcards. Following an argument with the Eighth Doctor over whether it was right for time travel to be offered by Causeway to the masses, Audacity Montague retreated into the shop. When found by Charlotte Pollard, she was browsing the postcards, musing to Charley on how she could never send them to her loved ones in Regency era England. (AUDIO: The Time You Never Had [+])