With the summer stretching it's arms and warming up more and more countries, the Postcrossing meetups are also on the rise. April was a particularly active month with at least 5 meetups that we know of and May seems to be following the same steps.

Finland on its own had 3 of them just in April, all in different cities throughout the country. Russia followed, and Taiwan had its first meetup in Taipei which gathered quite a few Postcrossers.

Here's a quick run down of all the meetups that happened since the last update with links to photos of the events:

4th April

Finland, Jyväskylä (photos, photos)

12th April

Finland, Kalajoki (photos)

18th April

Taiwan, Taipei (photos, photos)

25th April

Russia, Moscow (photos)

Finland, Joensuu

6th&7th May

Finland, Helsinki (photos)

9th May

England, Ipswich

Finland, Jyväskylä (photos)

But it doesn't stop here. There's quite a few coming up soon! Here's the agenda for the upcoming meetups:

17th May

Brazil, São Paulo

31st May

Portugal, Coimbra

27th June

Canada, Ontario

As usual, for the most updated list of the upcoming meetups, be sure to check the forum.

And because it's much easier to describe the meetups with photos, here are some taken by Headstandguy on the Taipei meetup:

For more photos of this meetup, check this slideshow.

PS: By the way, soon we will be publishing details here about the upcoming International Postcrossing Meetup 2009 so keep tuned!