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When the Postcrossing project was launched 4 years ago, no one would guess that it could ever reach one million postcards. But it did, and, we have just reached 3 times that! What a milestone! Three million postcards! Three million connections! Three million smiles! We couldn’t be prouder of being part of this project.

3 million

And, this couldn’t be reached without every single member of Postcrossing, so a big thank you to you all for making it happen!

But, we know many of you are anxiously waiting to know who were the lucky members that exchanged this special postcard. So without further delays:

3 million

The postcard 3 million travelled from arjakos in Finland, to klemko in Slovenia! Congratulations to both for being part of such an important milestone in Postcrossing!

And, finally, congratulations Sara-Gandalf (from Slovenia!) – you are the lucky winner of our contest by being the first to guess correctly the countries involved on this unique postcard.

International Girl Aerogrammes The winner of the contest, the sender and receiver of the postcard 3 million will receive aerogrammes packs kindly offered by the folks behind Int’l Girl Aerogrammes. If you aren’t one of the the lucky ones, be sure to check their website – their aerogrammes are designed with love, come in different languages and are printed in recyclable paper. Each aerogramme is a little piece of art that takes your message directly to those you love. Can you tell how much we love them?

Shall we start the countdown to the postcard 4 million? :)


73 comments so far

soilian, Finland

Congratulations arjakos and klemko! :D

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MissMaple, Netherlands

Congratulations to the three winners :D:D:D:D

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dst121gr, Greece

Congratulations :)

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Muttley, Netherlands

Congratulations! Had lot of fun while waiting for it!!

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szirmaik, Hungary

Wow!!! Congratulations to EVERY SINGLE POSTCROSSER, but especially to arjakos and klemko! :)

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kugusch, Germany

woooohooo!
It's been a fun two hours in the forum watching the countdown, waiting and refreshing the count, chatting, and trying to register the 3Millionth card ourselves.

Congrats to the sender and receiver, and of course the correct guess!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy your "fame" and aerograms!

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kugusch, Germany

woooohooo!
It's been a fun two hours in the forum watching the countdown, waiting and refreshing the count, chatting, and trying to register the 3Millionth card ourselves.

Congrats to the sender and receiver, and of course the correct guess!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy your "fame" and aerograms!

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kugusch, Germany

woooohooo!
It's been a fun two hours in the forum watching the countdown, waiting and refreshing the count, chatting, and trying to register the 3Millionth card ourselves.

Congrats to the sender and receiver, and of course the correct guess!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy your "fame" and aerograms!

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Geminiscp, Portugal

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Next million, here we go!!!!

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Tjitske, Netherlands

Congratulations to all postcrossers! What a wonderful milestone!

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scrutiny, Hong Kong

Fantastic! Congrats to all of us, because we all made it happen. Here's to the next million, and millions after that!

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MarjoleinVtG, Netherlands

congratulations to all :)
it was fun to wait for it!

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Jetske, Netherlands

Congratulations! :)

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sumares, Puerto Rico

At Postcrossing, everyone is a winner! :D

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dandilion, Netherlands

WOW!!!

Right now when its was most important to register and send cards my internet was off :-(

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gabis, Germany

Congratulations to the lucky winners!

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Sara-Gandalf, Sweden

Yay! We are famous :) Well...mostly lucky :P

Yes, 4 million, here we come!!

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butterblume, Germany

Congratulations from Germany :-)

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kirbird, United States of America

Let's all give ourselves a pat on the back for bringing some real joy into the world. Congrats, everyone! :)

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sparklingsights, Canada

Very cool! Congrats guys!
I love Postcrossing. :)

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Nordbaer, Germany

Congratulations to the team who made three million smiles possible!

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kela79, Finland

So wonderful!!!We made it again!!:))Congratulations to everyone!!!:)

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yote, Finland

Congratulations klemko and arjakos !!!!!!! :D :D

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Lori45P, Canada

Congratulations to everyone, especially the winners!

But an extra special congratulations to Paulo and his team, because if it wasn't for him following through on his vision, none of us would be here celebrating!

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phisseraph, Taiwan

Congratulations to all of participators!!

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Shaneez, South Africa

Congratulations everybody:-))))

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isagv, Germany

Congratulations to the winners and there were so many names from forummembers soooooo close to win. ;)

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Zoushi, Germany

Congratulations for everybody ^^

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Bluma, United States of America

Congratulations to every one of us for making it happen and a special congrats to arjakos and klemko! On to 4 Million!

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Eismond, Germany

Oh no! I registered the 3.000.002 postcard. U_U

Congrats to the lucky ones!

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suzeroo, Canada

Wonderful...Wonderful...Wonderful!!!

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dollart, Finland

congratulations for every one, unbelievable. Paulo, how long did it take to reach for the first, second and now third million, are we picking up the pace?

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honeybee, Austria

Congratulations! This is the best contest in the world. Let's start the next million!

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don101, Germany

Glückwunsch an die Gewinner !!! Congratulations....!!!!

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pepsimaja, Germany

Congratulation to the winners and let´s have a lot of fun anymore!

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rkneo11, India

Congratulations...

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JEM, United States of America

what a great gift . It's nice to learn about these wonderful websites through postcrossing.

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glaesmann, Germany

Congrats to the winners!

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Lori45P, Canada

I just did some quick calculations and, if we keep the current pace we have going, we should reach 4 million approximately the 2nd last week of December. But the pace is gaining speed rather than staying static, is that right Paulo?

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Ninocas, Portugal

Congratulations!!!

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klemko, Slovenia

Thanks to everybody also from my side!!
Best wishes!

Klemen

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Blogger, United States of America

Congratulations to Postcrossing, and to all the winners! 3 million! who would have thought it possible for people to write actual notes on a card and mail it. - No texting skills needed!

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nurse-fiction, Ukraine

Hell yeah! It's amazing!

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HM, Netherlands

Fabulous, gr8! Excelent and postcrossing is the winner! conG to arjakos in Finland for sending and to klemko in Slovenia for registering as exactly number 3,000,000!
Brilliant!
At what time exactly it took place???
Tomorrow we are ready for Up to the 4!
Celebrate today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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nowaglas, United States of America

Congrats! That's sooooooooo amazing!!!!!!!!!

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icitaiwan, Netherlands

Congratulations...3 million postcards, how would that looks like when you put them all together.

I had so much fun yesterday on the PC forum during the countdown and I did make it to the "screen shot" , but didn't win :). So many people where trying to register their cards at the same time...amazing!!

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Mundoo, Australia

Congratulations to arjakos and klemko for 3 million worth of fun. So much fun counting down and being part of the fun on the forum. I am glad I am part of this project.

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paulo, Portugal

Thank you everyone! :)

@dollart: You can see the dates of 1st and 2nd million on our history page: http://postcrossing.com/about/history

@Lori45P: It's hard to say when exactly the 4th million will be. But yes, it is speeding up. So I would expect the 4th million to be in less than 7 months! :)

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jp40, Brazil

Oh my god!!I posted Usa to Taiwan, well the postcard number: 2.999.998 :(

I hope to win, the next countdown :)

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capricornrising, United States of America

Congratulations!

Can't wait for the next million! ;)

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kazinhabueno, Brazil

Good news!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!
:)

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Aulikki, Finland

Wonderful.....Extremely wonderful....Congratulations to all of us....I am very happy to be a part of this :).
It would be great to see a picture of Paulo holding 3 million postcards in his hands LOL (without him none of these postcards would have been sent).Together towards to 4 million.....10 million.......1 billion.....?

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glenasena, Australia

Congratulations :-) Happy Postcrossing to everyone

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AllSerene, United Kingdom

Congratulations to everyone and many thanks to Paulo - and to everyone else who works with him to make Postcrossing such fun!

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FemkeDorien, Netherlands

Congratulations now I'm wondering how this postcard looks like...

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paulazet, Poland

Congrats! :)
We did it! ;D

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Luxi, Luxembourg

Amazing! And we are all part of it ;-)
Congratulations to the winners!!!

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arjakos, Finland

Hello everybody!
It´s amazing!! Many thanks to everyone who has sent the message to me...I nearly cried when I read those messages! Yesterday was my lucky day with Klemen and OF COURSE with all postcrossers!!
Best wishes, Arja

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Fedow, Italy

Congratulation to everyone who sent a postcard, it's a great target!

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rnbastos, Brazil

wooohooooo! congrats everyone who made postcrossing get to that number (and, sure, specially to the one who send the 3-millionth card. heheh)

this is very cool... when I joined the site, it was "almost" getting to 2 mil... that was fast! :)

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Lori45P, Canada

For anyone interested, a stack of 3 million postcards would (based on an average size of 4"x6"), and covering an area on the ground of 2 feet x 1-1/4 feet would reach approximately 977 feet into the air, which is the same height as the Sutro Tower in San Francisco (www.sutrotower.org)

: - )

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isagv, Germany

@FemkeDorien: Here you can see it: http://www.postcrossing.com/postcards/FI-637138

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ammy, Singapore

Since we're getting more and more members daily, provided the older members continue to Postcross, the growth rate should be exponential! =D
Thanks to everyone, especially Paulo, for creating this wonderful project!

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mettyfauziah, Indonesia

To think that the count from 2 million to 3 million postcards is achieved within 1 year, it's amazing, isn't it? I think we should raise the bar from 3 million to 6 million this time and see how fast it will take to get to the number :)

Way to go, Postcrossing!

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mamamanon, Netherlands

Hip Hip Huray! To the winners ánd all of us, Postcrossers! Let's hope that this project wil become bigger and bigger and make us all realise that the world and his people are so wonderfull..

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mor_lefay, Greece

Congrats!!! :))

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fredriech, France

YEAH §§! postcrossing rox all over the world ! Toujours aussi puissants !

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Saintois, Belgium

congratulations...ready for countdown to 4 millions...

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ejune, China

It must be brilliant to have so many smiles in hand. Congratulations. :)

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BubbleGum, Slovenia

Wow! Slovenian postcrossers played such a huge role in this, I'm so proud! hehe :)
Congrats to us all!

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bradpete, Philippines

Congratulation! Happy Postcrossing!

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NowhereMan, Belarus

It's COOL!

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Markku11, Finland

Congratulations to you!

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