What is Postcrossing?

It's a project that allows you to send postcards and receive postcards back from random people around the world. That's real postcards, not electronic! Learn more.

How does it work?

  1. Request an address and a Postcard ID
  2. Mail a postcard to that address
  3. Receive a postcard from another postcrosser!
  4. Register the Postcard ID you have received
  5. Go to number 1 to receive more postcards!

Our happy members

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“In the digital age, it is so easy to keep up with people. You’ve got acquaintances on Facebook, emails with your distant relatives, texting with your grandparents, and tweeting at celebrities and politicians. Something about the act of writing things out by hand on physical paper, sealing it in an envelope, and dropping it in the mail makes the whole message feel much more personal and enjoyable.”

Núria, Spain
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What is happening now?

Postcrossing in numbers

  • icon804,085 members
  • icon208 countries
  • icon76,550,708 postcards received
  • icon138 received in the last hour
  • icon389,460 postcards traveling
  • icon241,181,590,304 miles traveled
  • icon9,685,443 laps around the world