Mail Mobile Pix as Postcards

A recent Gadling.com entry reminded me that this now exists: photo postcards by mail / cell phone. Like to send postcards but can never find the perfect shot? Generally forget about it until you're either back of beyond with no Pony Express or at the airport, headed home? If you've got a Cingular, Alltel, Midwest Wireless or US Cellular account, you can now snail mail your own photos as postcards from anywhere you've got US service, courtesy Fuji film.

It's fairly spendy, natch -- $1.99 per missive, billed to your phone. I recently spent two bucks on a postcard stamp and an "encouragement" to a bellguy to post my card as I hopped on a tour bus, though. Six weeks later, the postcard hasn't reached its addressee, either -- for the same pesos, I could have sent my own shot and known it would arrive pronto.

A postcard-sender be!