On the front page of the Enthusem site is the claim “greeting cards reinvented.” That’s a tall claim, especially with so many e-card sites available on the web. But Enthusem is not a traditional web-based greeting card site, where you send a greeting card to someone’s email address. Instead, Enthusem is a web-based app that sends physical greeting cards to a person’s postal mail address.
We have reviewed Zumbox before – a site that delivers web-based mail to someone’s virtual snail mail address. Zumbox may be more environmentally conscious as there is no extra paper involved, but Enthusem distinguishes itself with a folded card inside a translucent envelope, so you can see the cover image through the envelope. Enthusiam helps add value to a suffering postal mail service and enhances the experience with a unique hybrid email/postal mail system.
Enthusem may use more paper than an all-electronic greeting card service, but sometimes it’s necessary to send a physical note – perhaps as a thank you, or to contact former customers with new offers, or simply to tell someone you love them. Although postal mail has gotten a bad wrap in recent years due to increasing junk mail, people generally appreciate a personalized note from friends and loved ones. Enthusiam cards can be linked to a web address as well, so the greeting card can reference a video or other more-extensive, graphical messages. All told, it’s a good and useful idea and one of those things that makes you think: why didn’t someone think of this sooner?
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To “What we didn’t like” one should add the following: the service only seems to be available in the US; so goes for the alternative Send Out Cards.
I was just looking for some competitive info on enthusem, and thanks for the info. In reply to the comment, Send Out Cards is available world wide. Cards can be sent anywhere, and are printed and sent locally in the US, Canada, and Australia. As it is web based, you can access from anywhere, and mail cards to anywhere. The company is also expanding to have a second print site in the US, and other countries as the need increases.
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