Send a Postcard/Letter hybrid

Postcards and letters are great ways to stay in touch with loved ones, and each has its own strengths recommending it.  Letters are private, and can be multiple pages in length; postcards are attractive, and have cheaper postage.  But one's strength is also the others' weakness - postcards can be read by anyone and can carry only short messages, while letters have more expensive postage costs.

If only there was a way to extract only the best characteristics of each; now that would truly be a powerful piece of Postal technology.  Well, it was with this goal in mind that I created a Postcard/Letter Hybrid!  It combines the length and privacy of a conventional letter with the shape and postage cost of a conventional postcard.  (I'm currently still struggling to think of a good name for this mailing monstrosity - as all the obvious portmanteaus sound stupid: ie. "Petter" , "Lostcard" , "Postter" , "Letcard".  I guess if I had to choose at gunpoint, I'd pick Letcard at the moment.  If you guys have any good name suggestions please feel free to make your ideas known in the comments section!)

Ok, without further hesitation, let's create this grisly mutant of a device before our constitutions fail us.

Step 1 Diabolical components

To bring this Franken-card (<- hey, perhaps a name?) to life you will need the following:

• a single sheet of paper (more on this in later steps)
• scissors
• scotch tape
• glue stick (not pictured)
• an old calendar or other image you want to make into a postcard
• marker and/or pencil (not pictured)
• the handy "L" tool from my previous postcard'ible