More than half of Brits that OnePoll surveyed in June report they never send postcards.

English Heritage said it would give free postcards to children visiting 18 of its sites over the summer English Heritage has warned the tradition of sending postcards "could become a distant nostalgic memory". The charity's conservation, curatorial and learning director, Matt Thompson, said there was "something genuinely sad about the idea of this tradition disappearing". More than half of Brits that OnePoll surveyed on behalf of English Heritage in June reported they never send postcards. The preservation charity said it would give free limited edition postcards to children visiting 18 of its sites over the summer "in a bid to revive the once popular holiday tradition". The postcards were designed by authors and illustrators Nick Sharratt and Sir Quentin Blake. Sharratt said: "I wanted my designs to be the kind of thing a child would want to pick up and perhaps keep, but even more inspire that first trip to the postbox. The postcards depict knights and a princess in castles and children visiting a large palace