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Where can I get a postcard from Rome... in Dublin?

  • 29-07-2016 07:50AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭


    AH, I need your help. I'm looking to buy a Rome postcard, are there any shops in Dublin that sell them? Appreciate the help.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,083 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Have you considered making one? Something like this on one side, the usual on the other, and then get a print-shop to actually print it, assuming you can't yourself?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭degsie


    Might have a poke around George's St Arcade. You'll be lucky though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,993 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Contact the Italian embassy?

    Or the Italian Cultural Institute on Fitzwilliam Square http://www.iicdublino.esteri.it/iic_dublino/it/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭Story Bud?


    Tell us the real story OP.

    How did you end up in Dublin when you're meant to be in Rome?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,083 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Story Bud? wrote: »
    Tell us the real story OP.

    How did you end up in Dublin when you're meant to be in Rome?

    "Didn't you get that postcard I said I'd send you from Rome? The postal service is terrible!"

    *I'd better follow through on that promise, even though I'm home*


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Isn't there a Rome Postcard Shop on Grafton St.?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭blindside88


    Remember the stamp and postmark will be from Dublin when you post it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Get one from Cork and use tippex to correct it. Most people would not know the difference between Cork and Rome.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Remember the stamp and postmark will be from Dublin when you post it

    Awww you just had to go and ruin the thread.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Get someone in Rome to post you one. Call the Pope...he'll sort you out. He's sound like that.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    Your Face wrote: »
    Isn't there a Rome Postcard Shop on Grafton St.?

    Down by the Rome shop and Rome's R US, matter of fact, I think they are all in the Rome district.

    OP won't they notice an Irish postage stamp on it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,083 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Awww you just had to go and ruin the thread.
    If he went with my suggestion of designing one, it'd be a matter of just snipping one of these postmarks to where the stamp should be. If there a date on it, it could be smudged. Then stick it in the recipient's letter-box.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,049 Mod ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    Maybe OP is going to argue that he definitely sent it and then he "finds" it in his suitcase.. and they laugh and joke about how silly he/she is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭Zxclnic


    Winterlong wrote: »
    Get one from Cork and use tippex to correct it. Most people would not know the difference between Cork and Rome.

    I have to agree with the above OP.
    It's very easy to confuse Pana with the Via del Corso, so just send a couple of photos of yourself from the former and say you're in the latter.
    Simples.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭Johngoose


    Is it part of your challenge for an upcoming season of The Apprentice?Alan Sugar expects you to be very resourceful on your trip to Dublin?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 575 ✭✭✭richardw001


    Here you go - will probably have a German postmark though if you send it from the site

    https://www.mypostcard.com/en/design-shop/holiday-greetings/greetings-from-rome-italy-travel-vacation-send-postcard-online-1994


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,853 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    What did the Romans ever do for us?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    You could try the Italian quarter. Even if you can't get a post card you will get a tasty pizza.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    You could try the Italian quarter. Even if you can't get a post card you will get a tasty pizza.

    And wine. Lots of wine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    Thanks for all the replies. It looks like the option of printing one is what I'm going to go for. Although I will check out the place on Fitzwilliam Square.

    No, I won't be posting it anywhere! I'm taking my better half to Rome for a weekend and the postcard will be given to her with "see you soon, love from Rome" (or something like that) written on the back.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭Story Bud?


    When do you need it for?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,993 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Awwwwww!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,701 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    Thanks for all the replies. It looks like the option of printing one is what I'm going to go for. Although I will check out the place on Fitzwilliam Square.

    No, I won't be posting it anywhere! I'm taking my better half to Rome for a weekend and the postcard will be given to her with "see you soon, love from Rome" (or something like that) written on the back.

    :) aww


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    Story Bud? wrote: »
    When do you need it for?

    Today if possible. Or tomorrow at a stretch. So online ordering would be out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭Zxclnic


    Thanks for all the replies. It looks like the option of printing one is what I'm going to go for. Although I will check out the place on Fitzwilliam Square.

    No, I won't be posting it anywhere! I'm taking my better half to Rome for a weekend and the postcard will be given to her with "see you soon, love from Rome" (or something like that) written on the back.

    How sweet....gotta dash I feel a 'novel' coming on.
    Ciao for now.
    Cecelia A.:):):)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭Story Bud?


    Today if possible. Or tomorrow at a stretch. So online ordering would be out.


    You can probably get printable postcards in any half decent stationary shop?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭Story Bud?


    Or just google postcard templates and get some card and a scissors.

    Aw and you could print off Italian stamps onto a label and stick it to the printed out postcard!

    I love this sh*t.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    The first reply here linked to a pretty good looking postcard - my plan is to print it in Read's on hard card and then just write on the back. It won't really matter that it's not a "real" postcard, I just thought I'd check in case there was somewhere that'd have them (long shot I know).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    Thanks for all the replies. It looks like the option of printing one is what I'm going to go for. Although I will check out the place on Fitzwilliam Square.

    No, I won't be posting it anywhere! I'm taking my better half to Rome for a weekend and the postcard will be given to her with "see you soon, love from Rome" (or something like that) written on the back.

    I smells rattus rattus. Maybe rattus norvegicus. But definitely rattus. Maybe even ratsRus.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭Zxclnic


    The best of luck to you.


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