Postable Alternatives (2026): 5 Card-Mailing Services

The best Postable alternatives in 2026: ShipNote for a batch of thank-you postcards from a registry list, at $1.99 a card on 10 or more, postage included, the lowest all-in price in our table at 20, 50 and 100 cards; TouchNote for photo cards sent abroad; and Minted for keepsakes. Postable runs $3.40–$5.41 a card mailed.

Disclosure: ShipNote is our product, and it appears in this comparison. Every price below was checked against each vendor's own pricing page, product page or help center on September 30, 2026, at list price. Postable and Minted were both advertising discount codes that day, and we left them out. Minted's Mail It For Me details were checked on September 14, 2026, Mailbook's on September 16, 2026, and Punkpost's domain on August 31, 2026. The links are included so you can re-check, because card-mailing prices move with USPS rates.

What do Postable alternatives cost for 20, 50 and 100 thank-yous?

Postable costs $4.04 to $5.41 a card for 20 thank-yous with the stamp added, and $3.40 to $4.25 on 100. Minted, TouchNote, Handwrytten and Simply Noted land between $2.06 and $4.57. ShipNote is $1.99 a card on 10 or more, with First-Class postage and mailing included: $39.80 for 20, $99.50 for 50 and $199.00 for 100.

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At 20, 50 and 100 cards, ShipNote's $1.99 is the lowest all-in price per card in this table, below every Postable, Minted, TouchNote, Handwrytten and Simply Noted format we priced, including the postcard where one is sold. On 100 thank-yous that is $141 less than Postable's postcards.

How the other rows were built: Postable's 50- and 100-card figures are the prepaid-credit rates from its own pricing calculator, which totals the stamp in; its one- and 20-card figures come from the same calculator and match its FAQ. Minted's rows are its thank-you postcard at list price plus a 65¢ USPS postcard stamp, because Minted ships the cards to you unless Mail It For Me is offered, and Minted doesn't sell exactly 20 or 50, so the nearest sizes are labelled. TouchNote's figures assume you buy its 10-card bundle as many times as you need; postage is included anywhere in the world. Handwrytten is its published retail price with the 82¢ stamp it bills on top.

ShipNote: $1.99 thank-you postcards from your registry list

ShipNote (that's us) mails real thank-you postcards for $2.49 for one, $1.99 each on 10 or more, and that price includes printing, addressing, First-Class postage and mailing. A 20-card batch is $39.80, 50 cards are $99.50, and 100 are $199.00. There's no subscription, no credits that expire and no minimum, the full price is on the site before you check out, and checkout doesn't ask you to create an account.

It's built for the job that sends most people searching for Postable alternatives: the 20-to-100-card pile of thank-yous after a wedding or baby shower. Pick a postcard design, write one message, and paste your registry's thank-you list from Amazon, Zola, Babylist, The Knot, Target and others. Each card fills in that guest's name and gift from their row, you can edit any single card before the batch goes out, and every card is printed, addressed and mailed the next business day. A 60-card batch takes about 15 minutes, not a weekend: you write the message and we mail the thank-you cards for you.

The honest fine print: postcards only (no envelopes), US addresses only, and it's built around thank-yous. For a one-off birthday card to another country, use Postable or TouchNote.

What does Postable actually cost?

A single Postable card in an envelope is $5.99 plus an 82¢ stamp, $6.81 mailed, and a single postcard is $3.99 plus a 65¢ stamp, $4.64 mailed. Those are Postable's list prices on September 30, 2026, before any discount code.

Postable's FAQ prices enveloped cards at $5.99 for one, $5.29 each for 2 to 19 and $4.59 each for 20 or more, every tier "plus stamp". Its calculator puts a postcard at $3.99 for up to 19 and $3.39 each on 20.

Postable no longer has a standalone pricing page. The "Pricing" link in its menu opens a calculator instead, and the calculator's fine print says orders under 200 cards need prepaid account credit to get its lowest price. Here is what that calculator showed on September 30, 2026. Its per-card rates leave the stamp out; the totals below include it:

The famous low rates you'll see in roundups, $3.29 a card and $2.24 a postcard, are the calculator's 500-card prices before the stamp. The calculator also notes that its volume rates can't be combined with discount codes. Postable mails orders in about 1–2 business days by First-Class Mail, sends anywhere in the world from the US (international stamps are $1.75), and, per its FAQ, lets you send a card without creating an account.

Is Postable or Minted better?

Postable, if you want the cards mailed for you. Mailing each card is Postable's standard service. Minted mails only when its Mail It For Me option is offered at checkout, which it says it is introducing gradually, with no published price. When it isn't offered, a Minted order ships to you and you stamp and post every card yourself.

Minted wins on the card. Its designs come from an independent artist community, and it sells fold-over and foil-pressed cards with free recipient addressing printed on the envelopes. Its thank-you postcard is also cheap before the stamp: $2.36 a card on 25, $1.67 on 55 and $1.41 on 100, list, on September 30, 2026. Add a 65¢ stamp and your own trip to the mailbox, and 100 cost $206.00, against Postable's $340.00 mailed. The full rundown is in does Minted mail cards for you.

For a batch of registry thank-yous, neither is the one we'd pick: ShipNote mails every postcard for $1.99 on 10 or more, which is less than Minted's postcard with its stamp at every quantity we priced, and the mailing is done for you.

How does each service get your guests' addresses?

The address list is the slow part of any batch, and each service solves it differently:

• Postable gives you a personal link (postable.com/YourName) that you share by email or text. Friends fill in a short form and their addresses land in your free Postable address book, which you keep for next time.
• Minted needs an address book too. You type contacts in, upload a spreadsheet in its seven-column template, or send guests a request link by email or text.
• Mailbook is a free online address book and nothing else: you share one link, people type in their own addresses, and you export a spreadsheet or print the addresses on label sheets at home. It doesn't mail cards.
• ShipNote starts from the list you already have. Paste a registry list, your purchase emails or a spreadsheet, and AI pulls out each name, gift and any address the giver shared. When you press Next: Review, every row with a name and no address is flagged, and it offers a link that one guest uses to type in their own address. We email you when it arrives. There's no single link for the whole list and no reusable address book between orders, so save your own copy.

If collecting addresses from scratch for a list you'll reuse every year is the job, Postable's link or Mailbook is the better tool. If the gifts are already on a registry, pasting it is faster than building an address book first.

Which other services mail cards like Postable?

TouchNote: photo cards anywhere in the world

TouchNote's US thank-you postcard is $4.99 for one, or $2.40 a card in a 10-card bundle ($24.00), and postage is included wherever the card goes: its product page advertises free First-Class delivery worldwide. A greeting card is $6.90 for one. Bundles are prepaid credits, and its help center says credits expire after a year.

The genuinely nice part: TouchNote prints locally in the destination country, so a card to the UK mails from the UK. For occasional photo cards sent abroad it's a good fit. For 60 US thank-yous you'd buy six bundles at $2.40 a card, where ShipNote is $1.99.

Handwrytten and Simply Noted: robot handwriting for businesses

Both appear in every "Postable alternatives" roundup, but both are robot-handwriting services built for businesses. Handwrytten's pricing page says cards "retail at $3.75" with postage extra, so a card is $4.57 mailed; its subscriptions run from $100 a month for 24 cards to $382 for 100, its business plans from $449 to $2,499 a month, and its page says discounts take the card price to $1.19 or less, before postage.

Simply Noted's credit packs start at 100 credits: $338 for 6x11 jumbo postcards or $358 for folded cards, postage included, so $3.38–$3.58 a card. There's a $497-a-month unlimited plan for always-on senders. If you're a realtor or a dealership sending steady "personal" mail, these are the right tools, and we compare them all-in in Simply Noted alternatives and Handwrytten alternatives. For 30 wedding thank-yous, they're the wrong shape and the wrong price. If your list is a client list rather than a guest list (closed deals this quarter, an order history, a spreadsheet your CRM spat out), you can send thank-you cards from a CRM export without a subscription or a setup call.

What happened to Punkpost?

Punkpost, the artist-handwritten card service that shows up in most older "Postable alternatives" lists, is gone. It announced its own closure in July 2024. The company also let its domain lapse, and punkpost.com was re-registered by someone else in May 2025, so whatever sits at that address is no longer Punkpost and nothing there can be redeemed. When we last checked, on August 31, 2026, it served an expired certificate over a suspended hosting account. If a roundup you're reading still recommends Punkpost, that tells you when it was last fact-checked.

We dug into this separately: see Punkpost alternatives for the closure timeline, what to do about an unredeemed gift certificate, and which surviving service matches which part of Punkpost.

Where is Postable the better choice?

Postable is the better pick when the card itself matters more than the price per card:

• One folded card in an envelope, mailed for you. Postable mails a real greeting card in an addressed, stamped envelope, one at a time, with no credit pack or subscription for a single card.
• Any occasion, one card at a time. Birthdays, sympathy, holidays: a large catalog, and a single card mailed for $6.81.
• Cards abroad from one place. Postable mails anywhere in the world, with a $1.75 international stamp.
• Handwriting-style type. Its patented "Smart Fonts" vary the letterforms so a typed message looks closer to handwriting.
• An address book you keep. The fill-in link above builds a list you can reuse every year.

Is there a free Postable alternative?

Not for physical mail. Paper, printing and a stamp cost real money, so anyone advertising "free" mailed cards is making money from you somewhere else. The closest thing to free is digital, and a digital card arrives in an inbox, not a mailbox; even Paperless Post doesn't mail paper cards. For a real card at the least money, either go DIY with a postage calculator so you don't over-stamp (the July 12, 2026 USPS change puts a postcard stamp at 65¢, up from 61¢), or use a batch service with postage included: at $1.99 all-in, a ShipNote postcard costs less than most DIY card-plus-stamp combinations before you've addressed a single envelope.

Which Postable alternative should you pick?

Match the service to the job:

• Wedding or baby-shower thank-yous: ShipNote. The lowest all-in price per card in our table at 20, 50 and 100 cards, and it reads your registry list directly.
• Enveloped greeting cards, any occasion: Postable, at $4.25–$6.81 a card mailed on 1 to 100 cards.
• A keepsake design you'll mail yourself: Minted, and take Mail It For Me if it's offered.
• Occasional photo cards abroad: TouchNote.
• Business mail that looks handwritten, at volume: Handwrytten or Simply Noted.
• Leaving a card service that bills you monthly: the commitment models are compared in SendOutCards alternatives.
• Photo cards you designed on Shutterfly: it can mail them for you, with conditions; see how Shutterfly's Mail for Me works.
• Just need addresses collected: Mailbook, free.

Whichever you choose, check the vendor's live pricing page first. Every price above was checked on September 30, 2026, and this category reprices with every USPS rate change.

Postable alternatives: common questions

Does Postable include postage in its prices?

No. Postable's FAQ prices every card "plus stamp": 82 cents for a card in an envelope and 65 cents for a postcard. Its calculator adds the stamp into the order total. A single card is $5.99 plus 82 cents, so $6.81 mailed. ShipNote's $1.99 a card on 10 or more already includes First-Class postage.

How much does Postable cost for 100 thank-you cards?

$340.00 for 100 postcards or $425.00 for 100 cards in envelopes, stamps included, at the prepaid-credit rates Postable's own calculator showed on September 30, 2026. That is $3.40 and $4.25 a card. The same 100 thank-yous from ShipNote are $199.00, postage included.

Is Postable or Minted better?

Postable, if you want the cards mailed for you. Mailing is Postable's standard service, while Minted mails only when its Mail It For Me option is offered at checkout. Minted is the better buy for a keepsake design. For a batch of registry thank-yous, ShipNote mails every postcard for $1.99 each on 10 or more.

Can you send a Postable card without an account?

Yes. Postable's FAQ says you can send a card without creating one; an account is what holds its address book. ShipNote doesn't require an account either: you pay at checkout and every card is mailed the next business day.

Related reading

• Fastest way to send wedding thank-yous — handwriting vs print-and-mail, with what 50 and 100 cards cost.
• The cheapest way to mail thank-you cards — per-card math for DIY, print shops and mailing services.
• Stamp calculator — exact postage for postcards, square envelopes, and heavy cards, auto-updated for the July 2026 USPS rates.
• How to send thank-you cards from your Amazon registry — the 15-minute registry-to-mailbox walkthrough.
• Thank-you note wording generator — free, no signup, composes the message for you.