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“send a postcard and receive one back from a random postcrosser somewhere in the world!”

What is Postcrossing?

It's a project that allows anyone to exchange postcards (paper ones, not electronic) from random places in the world. Learn more

How does it work?

  1. Sign up to get a login
  2. Obtain an address and a postcard ID
  3. Mail the postcard
  4. Wait to receive a postcard from another postcrosser
  5. Register the postcard ID of the card you have received
  6. Go to number 2 and start again!

What is happening now?


Postcrossing Blog

An image is worth a thousand words.

After several weeks of work, we are proud to announce Postcrossing postcard walls! Now everybody can upload their received postcards to their respective profile! All your postcards will be displayed in your profile as well as in a gallery of images that we like to call postcard walls.



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Postcrossing Stats

68,424 members
191 countries
282 postcards/hour
1,506,153 postcards received
70,074 postcards traveling
8,214,110,068 kms traveled
204,968 laps around the world

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Recent Postcards

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