Postage

Last time I sent one it was 1 euro, might be more now. For the past couple of years I've been emailing photos from my iPad instead of buying/sending postcards (although I miss that).

2 euro.
At least last year. I'm sure it hasn't gone down since.
If you mail from the Vatican it will get here faster. Apparently their Air Mail has powerful "connections" up there in the skies.

LOL, Roberto!

So, mail those post cards while the USD is strong.

It was 2 euro in June 2014. I asked someone at the front desk of my hotel to mail it for me. It arrived before I returned to the US (15 days later).

Last year we bought what we thought were post office stamps, but later found to be a company that competes with the national postal service. You have to mail them from special boxes found in many tobacconists around some cities. At least a few of our postcards made it home. I saw online reviews where some folks might as well mailed them via garbage cans, as those postcards never arrived. At around 2 euro a pop, you really would like to see them go where you want them too.

Unless your friends and relatives need to see foreign stamps and postmarks, it's easier to bring the post cards home and mail them from here--22 cents at last check.

"... easier to bring them [the postcards] home and mail them from here ..." Really? You could, of course, just phone them when you get home and tell them what a wonderful time you had, saving the 22 cents.

Bring them home and post them in order to save a couple of dollars? I can feel the ridicule of family and friends already.

Thanks for the critical replies to my suggestion. I was thinking of providing friends and relatives with a nice pictorial remembrance of my trip, not saving money, but saving time and perhaps confusion.
Several times in Europe, I have been given incorrect information about the cost of postage for post cards to the USA.
I recognize that if one moves out of the lock-step formation on this forum about how things "should be done," one risks remonstrance or ridicule.

Someone turned me on the the iPhone app: SnapShot Postcard. It actually creates a postcard out of a photo you have taken and sends that postcard to your contact. I used my free trial and sent a card to myself and it really works. Don't know what it costs to send, but it may be something you may want to check out.

Roberto, AFAIK the Poste Vaticane rely on the Italian ones...

Maybe, but the Almighty God knows where it was mailed from and therefore He knows which "Posta Prioritaria" should be given "Higher" Priority. :-)

postgram is another app that let's you create your own postcard. When we were in Europe last summer it cost 99 cents and got to our friends right away. We used an iPad to take the photo, create the card, and "mail" it...super fast and easy. We also bought and mailed some postcards the old fashioned way, but between the cost of the card, the cost of the stamp, the time spent trying to find stamps, the time spent in line at a Florence Post Office where we finally were able to buy them...postgram was definitely cheaper and easier. Plus the folks at home loved the personalized cards!

Max, & I prefer to spend the money to send the old fashioned picture postcard. If we can afford the money to travel overseas, we can afford to send a postcard to our friends & family back home.

Others to their own. . .

Joan, your suggestion was as valid as any other, and provided one more option.

As Roberto stated . . .

The Vatican post office is faster
"If you're in Rome, use the Vatican post office. Prices are the same, but it's been know to be a bit speedier than the Italian postal system (Plus, they give you cool Vatican stamps.)"

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