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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“Opening the mailbox and finding a colorful card, written with kind words from a total stranger; what a nice world we live in! I've always loved to write, travel and meet folks world wide. Postcrossing lets me do all of that from my home; mailbox to mailbox.”

Sylvie, U.S.A.
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What is happening now?

Postcrossing in numbers

  • icon807,115 members
  • icon208 countries
  • icon76,824,109 postcards received
  • icon511 received in the last hour
  • icon390,154 postcards traveling
  • icon242,141,550,205 miles traveled
  • icon9,723,994 laps around the world