The digital interface for individual postcards
Postcard API

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Make your customers ambassadors with postcards: allow your customers to send postcards – each one with company branding. The digital “Postcard API” interface makes this possible via your website, your app or perhaps a photo booth at an event. Once you have connected it to your systems, you can use API for many different communication purposes.

The benefits for you

  • Individual postcard solutions and campaigns
  • Many different connection options and applications
  • Customers become multipliers of the company
  • Generate more traffic and interaction
  • Swiss Post takes care of printing and mailing

Ideas on how to use it
Can be used for many different communication purposes

  • Photo booth connection for your event or location
  • Integration into a website or mobile app
  • Product launch / announcement of a (new) service
  • Send thank-you or birthday cards directly from the customer management system (CRM)

Here’s how it works

  • Get in touch with us to discuss your idea.

  • You sign the contract and send us the activation form with the campaign details.

  • We will send you your personal access details to use the Postcard API test and production environment.

  • You set up the connection using the technical specifications.

  • You start your marketing campaign.

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Prices

Sending a postcard costs CHF 2.20 including VAT, printing and mailing by A Mail. If you send 1,000 postcards a year or more, you will get discounts. You will pay an annual usage fee, irrespective of volume. During this first year, this will be CHF 300, and then CHF 100 during subsequent years. You can limit your campaigns to a specific period or a certain volume.

Volume (per year or per campaign) Price per item Savings
> 0 2.20 0%
> 1,000 2.05 –6,8%
> 10,000 1.95 –11,4%
> 50,000 1.80 –18,2%
> 100,000 1.60 –27,3%

Prices in CHF incl. VAT

Design and branding

You decide what elements you want your customers to have creative freedom over on the postcard. In terms of branding, you have three options: QR-code and text, image/logo or an advertising text. Every postcard features at least one image on the front, as well as the recipient and sender address on the back.

Example of a postcard. 1: Front picture. 2: Greeting text. 3: Postage stamp. 4: Sender. 5: Recipient. 6: Branding. 6a: QR Code and text. 6b: Advertising image/logo. 6c: Advertising text.

Format and mailing

A postcard comes in A6 format (105mm x 148mm). Both sides are printed on and come in four colours, with the front laminated. The paper weighs 260g/m2. We send the cards by A Mail and can, on request, send them abroad as well.

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