I sent my family some photos from Picplum recently. I was very satisfied with the quality of the photos, but the experience wasn't as nice as this article, and

I sent my family some photos from Picplum recently. I was very satisfied with the quality of the photos, but the experience wasn't as nice as this article, and it cost about five times more than their competition. At a 5x price premium for 4x6 (and 5x5 Instagram prints are double the 4x6 price), I'm not sure there could possibly be enough ease of use to turn me into a regular customer. And I didn't see all this fantastic ease of use - the uploader got stuck and did not display the result a few times, and the browse has no good clear-to-me way to view large images before selecting and uploading them, so if you have 2 shots of the same thing you have to tab out to an external photo viewer to pick the better one. I ended up doing all my picture selection in picasa then hunting for filenames in picplum. I liked the quality but I just wasn't impressed enough to justify using it regularly. Apparently they have some good ideas like you can set it up where you e-mail pictures in and they batch them up and mail them out to your family, but that just seems to me like a way to rack up another cell phone sized bill each month.