Digital cameras replaced film. We send photos by e-mail, we load on photo hosting sites for family and friends. But there are still people who have no computer and no internet. These are our grandparents. Yes, and sometimes, you want to have a paper version of a good photo. For many years I have been printing photos several times a year using
DotPhoto ,
Winkflash and, occasionally,
Snapfish . Very convenient: upload a photo using Google Picassa or ftp to a photo sharing-printing service, choose sizes, number of photos and pay with a credit card. In a few days - a maximum of a week I receive in the mail a package with printed photos. Every year, in early December, I or my wife choose from a mountain of files those few dozen - the most successful in the last 3-4 months. For grandma. Or rather, great-grandmother. Having received an envelope with photos, I quickly repack it, fill out a bunch of pieces of paper for customs and run to the post office to send the package to Russia. This pleasure is not expensive and from the price of 9 cents per photograph (approximately 2 rubles 65 kopecks) the price of each photo increases to approximately 35 cents (about 10 rubles 30 kopecks) - and this is an increase in price by 4 times and, basically, due to shipment from USA to Russia.
There is a crisis in the yard and, therefore,
this past year I decided to try to take advantage of the Internet and print photos using a Russian photo service. A quick search on Google showed me a few: fotki.mail.ru, foto.yandex.ru and a couple more. The price of photos (3 rubles. 50kop in translation into dollars turned out 12-14 cents). Shipment or delivery of photos to the house are not quite expensive. Decided to try. Faced one problem: you can pay for printing photos either through webmoney, yandex.dengi and other similar services, or upon receipt by mail. One service that I found in google accepted credit cards, but since 2007 it’s already like read only. A couple more looked like something very handicraft.
Actually the question is: do you know photo printing services with shipment in Russia (namely, Kursk), which accepts payment by credit card?