Japan Post launched the New Year's card service "Smart Nenga" on December 8th, which allows users to complete a series of New Year's card experiences such as purchasing, creating, sending, receiving, and saving all on LINE. The price starts from 200 yen. In addition to printing and mailing New Year's cards for an additional fee, it also has a function to send paper New Year's cards without knowing the recipient's address.
Although greetings at the beginning of the year have changed from New Year's cards to e-mails and SNS, there is a need to "think of someone important once a year and give a heartfelt New Year's greeting." Provided from the idea that it exists. It was developed as a service that combines “handmade feeling and customizability” and “easy”.
To use, add Smart Nenga's LINE official account as a friend and tap "Create New Year's card". After purchasing a pack, select a design from the pack and customize it by inserting photos and videos, pasting stamps, writing messages, etc. If you fill in the address side, you are ready to send it, and you can send it by LINE, or you can request printing and mailing and send it.
In customization, in addition to "handwritten/typed message", it is also possible to create "moving New Year's cards" such as "template with moving effect", "insert video", "insert voice", and "insert moving stamp". After sending it on LINE, you can also interact with the other person on LINE. Also, when sending via LINE, it is also possible to send to group LINE.
The New Year's cards you make and the New Year's cards you receive are saved for each year. Also, if you look at the New Year's card sent to Smart Nenga by January 10th, you can participate in the "Smart Nengakuji". The prizes for Smart Nengakuji are LINE points, 200 for 1,000 points, 800 for 500 points, and 9,000 for 100 points, for a total of 10,000.
The price of the New Year's card pack, which is a design template, is 200 yen for a trial pack containing 5 types (including plain colors), 300 yen for a basic pack containing 20 types, and 500 yen for a premium pack containing 30 types. You can also upgrade the pack by paying the difference. Payment method is credit card or LINE Pay.
LINE can be sent from January 1, 2022 to February 4, 2022. The template can be used until February 4th.
Requests for printing and throwing the created design are 230 yen per sheet including New Year's postcard fee. When you tap "Request printing/throwing" and select the friend you want to send it to, a predetermined input form will be sent to the other party's chat screen. Since it is a mechanism to send to the address entered by the other party in the form, even if the sender does not know the address of the other party, it is possible to send a paper New Year's card.
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