Humble postcards could be making a comeback amongst youngsters who are bored of social media messaging . At its peak people were sending 800m of the “Wish You Were Here” notes from their travels to family and friends every year. They have nearly been stamped out in recent years as people resorted to sending text messages instead. But experts said the tradition is having a resurgence due to festival goers . Graeme Wolford, from Judges, a family run postcard business, said as many as three million were still sending the holiday notes. And he said the industry was getting a boost from younger generations who are choosing to send out the notes. He said: “If you go to Glastonbury, there is actually a postcard pop-up marque where you can go and write a postcard, and it’s increasingly happening at more and more festivals. “Increasingly the young people are saying, ‘come on, I’ve sent enough texts and WhatsApp messages, let’s make someone’s day and send them a postcard’.” Postcard collector and Deltiologist Alec Wallace said the power of the pen was far from dead. He said: “They’re so nostalgic, I think myself and lots of people are interested in the past. “And also if you’re interested in a particular theme or a particular subject, if you play golf, if you play football, if you’re interested in cooking, if you go to Eastbourne, there’s a postcard of it. There’s a postcard of everything. “ He added that historically “you got some really saucy ones”. Alec, who has around 10,000 postcards, started collecting as a youngster and said: “My mother showed me a collection that she’d acquired as a child when I was ten about or 15. “One of the cards, the first card, it’s a picture of Phyllis Dare, the theatre star in the Edwardian times. “I thought fascinating, I didn’t know these sorts of things existed. “It was one of the main means of communication, there was no television, there was no internet, so it was a great way of communicating with people. “In fact there were up to six of seven posts a day in the main cities and the main towns and they would arrive the same day in the same town.” For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletters .