What is Postcrossing?

It's a project that allows you to send postcards and receive postcards back from random people around the world. 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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“Postcrossing is a window on tiny, interesting details about ordinary folks’ lives from all manner of countries and cultures all over the world that I would never learn otherwise. Being involved broadens my horizons amazingly and makes me so much more culturally aware. And it’s so incredibly positive. People make a huge effort over a small rectangle of card just because there’s another person at the end of it. It’s a simple, beautiful thing and I am so glad to be part of it.”

Lola, U.K.
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What is happening now?

Postcrossing in numbers

  • 806,668 members
  • 207 countries
  • 89,001,712 postcards received
  • 814 received in the last hour
  • 456,687 postcards traveling
  • 283,943,581,565 miles traveled
  • 11,402,692 laps around the world