Magic Postcard

Series 1: Thinking of you

$9 Buy with stamps
(recommended) Buy without stamps
(outside the U.S., etc.)

Magic Postcard allows you, the sender, to attach a piece of media — photo or video — that your recipient can view immediately upon delivery. It works with any phone that can scan a QR code; it requires no special app or account.

This is a pack of three postcards, each a different design, all reflecting the Series 1 theme: Thinking of you … 

Circe sits with books and wand, 1650, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
An alchemist wearing a tall hat, sitting at a table containing his chemical instruments, Frank Howard
A scholar pores over a book, searching for inspiration, David Teniers the Younger

Magic Postcard’s back looks like this:

Scan the code, the video plays. There’s no app, no login, no subscription … this is really just a postcard! You buy it, you use it: just like a postcard. The experience is fast and light: just like a postcard.

Of course, it’s trivial to transmit a photo or video to the phone of someone you love … but, turns out, it is VERY FUN to send it to their mailbox instead.

Magic Postcard also serves as a talking gift note. Record your greeting (and maybe your instructions) and slip it in alongside your gift.

Magic Postcard is end-to-end encrypted, which means the media you attach is accessible ONLY by the bearer of the postcard. Penumbra Print Shop can’t see it, and, poetically, if the postcard is destroyed or discarded, the media is effectively deleted. This brings the logic of the real physical postcard into digital space, insisting, this is how things ought to work.

Magic Postcard is printed with a Risograph SF9450 on French Paper Kraft-Tone cardstock, foil-stamped with our logotype.

Series 1: 500 ⁄ 600 remaining

Shipping for a single item is $1, anywhere in the world.

Orders go out on Mondays. We don’t accept returns or exchanges. Questions? Email shop@penumbraprint.com.

We ship items via USPS First-Class Mail. When we print your address label, you’ll receive a tracking link. Inside the U.S., delivery takes 2-5 days. Anywhere else, delivery takes 1-3 weeks. (International orders are tracked until the USPS hands them off to your local postal service.)

Countries to which we have dispatched items, so far: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.