Many tourists and travellers these days don't bother with post cards, because with the ease and convenience of digital cameras, who needs 'em?
Well...people with lousy memories do!
One of the problems with digital cameras is that people can take so many photos, so easily, that they quite often get carried away. Then, when they get home and are faced with the task of putting those photos into some kind of order, and labeling them and so on...they see all those photos and get discouraged. They put off the task, and put it off, until a year later they look at the photos, ready to begin the project, only to find they can't remember the names of the locations!
Purchasing post cards prevents this little problem, because the postcards are invariably labeled with the location. More than that, many of the postcards give information on the reverse side, about the photograph onthe cover side.
It's fun to collect postcards, actually. There's a variety of designs, from those that have a photo or drawing on the front and nothing on the back, so that people can write addresses and notes easiliy, to more sophisticated ones that give you two photos, a normal one on the front, and a faded photo of a different view of the same scene, on the back.
Some locations also have post-marks to put on the postcard...as for example the Pony Express station/museum in Gothenburg, Nebraska.
There's all sorts of postcard collectors, too. I prefer pristine ones. Some people mail the postcards to themselves, or collect them from friends and family to whom they've mailed them.
So when you visit a museum or other location, don't forget the postcards
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