
On 14th July 2005, the Postcrossing project started its first steps in spreading smiles through postcards. It was a small project done for the love of sending and receiving postcards from all over the world, and the hope was that there would be more people sharing the same love and interest for snail mail.
Fast forward 5 years and this same project is now responsible for over 4.5 million postcards connecting about 200 countries. It binds together people from different cultures of all ages and genders, with different political and even religious beliefs. Few other hobbies can claim to have achieved the same results, and we are quite proud of this!


Throughout these years, Postcrossing has gone through several milestones, thanks to the work of a team of volunteers as well as the precious support of its members who helped it reach what it is now.
Postcrossing is sending out a bold message to the world today: postcards are not something from the past. In fact, we feel like we are starting a postcard revolution and proving that no technology will ever replace the intimacy of a handwritten postcard. :)
Thank you everyone who made this possible. Let’s make the next 5 years even greater!
Please join me wishing,
…aaaaaaand because a birthday is not complete without presents, we have a big contest to announce! :)
We would like you to take a picture of yourself posting some postcards at your local postbox. Why not go do that now, we’ll wait here for a bit… Done? Now mail the photo to this email address, and don’t forget to add your username, so we can know who you are! That was easy, right? We’re hoping to make a big slideshow of smiling postcrossers around the world!
By July 31st we’ll randomly choose 5 people, who will each receive a pack of 60 postcards from MOO. :)
Many of you already know MOO, but if you don’t you should really check them out – they help you to make batches of professional glossy postcards, with a set of your own pictures or using some of their cool ready-made designs. If you’re a postcrosser who has never tried MOO before, you’ll be happy to know that they are offering all new customers 10% off 20 or 60 packs of postcards with the voucher code POSTBIRTHDAY5! (valid for one order only until the end of July, excludes delivery).
121 comments so far
You have bought the world into my home and broadened my horizons. I eagerly look forward to checking my post box each day to see what smiles and far-flung places are in it for me to enjoy.
Thank you Paulo for your idea and making it work.
Thank you Ana for your support.
I am so glad you were "born" five years ago and I hope to celebrate many more years together.
Thanks for beeing there, it's a wonderful idea and makes me often happy by opening the letterbox. Wish you much more years and happy members.
I'm very glad to be here to celebrate the second birthday with you. I hope I'll be here more and more years.
Thank you to all who make this possible ;-))
And to many many more amazing years!!
Greetz to all
Luxi
TAM
Have a very Happy Birthday, Postcrossing!
:)
Happy Birthday! How much joy postcrossing has brought to so many people in these 5 years. Congratulations.
I'm thankful not only coz of the great postcards I have received due to this project, but also coz of the great wonderful people I got to meet from so many different spots from this Planet Earth.
I wish you many many many more birthdays to come and candles to blow :)
Thanks to everyone who has made postcrossing possible!
Big smile + hug + love + support for you.
thanks for a great experiance to bring to us all.
Happy Postcrossing :)
And a big thank you to all who send cards. Postcards rock!
Brought smiles to million of people around the world:)
Well Done Paulo, Ana and the team!
Heartiest Congratulations to Paulo and the team for this remarkable achievement....and I hope that we will celebrate many more anniversaries in the future.
Paoulo, Ana and supporters, a big thank you!
Feliz! Cumpleanos!
and a HUGE "THANK YOU!!!!"
Postcrossers love you! :)
Stay alive and kicking!
Thanks Paulo, Ana and team for brighten up the days for so many people!
Thank you for the good idea!
Thank you also for the present! The discount voucher in Moo, i guess i'll use it!
Best wishes!!! Felicidades :)
About the contest, eh, won't be able to participate since my camera has been dead for a quite a long time now :(
I`m so glad I found out about you! Thank you for so many beautiful postcards! THANK YOU!!!
i'm gonna submit my pic for sure :D
สุขสันต์วันเกิด!!!!!
Joyeux Anniversaire!!!!!
Postcrossing ^^
Congratulations Paulo and Ana!
Congratulations to Paulo, Ana and The Team!
Here's looking forward to the next five years!!!
Keep up the good work!:)
A wonderful project to celebrate! ^o^
HIPPERDEPIEP HOERAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Thanks Postcrossing team and all the postcrosser who makes this unique thing happend.
Thank you for making it possible we can send and receive cards to people all over the world! I'm so happy with postcrossing! I would love to write more, but that costs a lot. That's why I love postcrossing. Keep up the good work! I will stay a user for many, many years more!
Greetings, Mariska
and to all other users: Happy postcrossing and congratulations to you too!
To say it with Ipuenktchens words: Postcrossing builded! (Postcrossing bilded-> Postcrossing educates!)
I learned a lot here and I JUST LOVE IT!!!!
Here's to the next 5 years! ♥ ♥ ♥
April
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
Happy Birthday to everyone in the Postcrossing Team, and many thanks from the thousands of us who use it every day.
I hope that, in my next life, I shall find out about Postcrossing as soon as I can read and write, I hope I'll be able to afford cards and stamps always and will have a great choice of both where I'll live then. ;-)
Also, I hope, that by then there will be a "hall of fame" of Postcrossers of "years ago" and will be so intrigued to read about the pioneers Paulo and Ana and their "followers" from the "early days"!
And I'll be really sorry I could not have been there then, but I will have been there then! Great!!! :-)))
In Portuguese: " Parabéns Postcrossing e Paulo"
Dear Paulo & Postcrossing team
Thanks for the idea of having created this spectacular HOBBY!
I am fairly sure that your idea will be recorded as one of the best that appeared on the Internet! The future will speak for itself ...
See you on the 6th Anniversary!
All the best for the future &... HAPPY POSTCROSSING!
And still have space for more. More ideas, more projects, more people around the world communicating and exchanging postcards, as before, as always!
Your visionary idea guaranteed to perpetuate a lifestyle that, otherwise, perhaps a day would end. Thanks!
Thank you for having given us cultivate a hobby that connects people, spreading cultures, countries closer.
Thanks for boxes and more boxes, albums and more albums from small windows to a new world, real and virtual.
New friends too. Virtual and real, brought together by meetings held around the world.
And from the main project, we jumped into the forum, which led to increased trade the nth degree. I, in particular, have today, after five years (yes, I'm the one of that began in 2005), thousands of postcards exchanged in the forum. Thanks.
I do not know a lot of new friends I made in the project, but I feel all of them more closer and more present in my life, first with the postcards and then with the emails and letters we exchanged.
And it all started with your extraordinary idea. Five years ago.
Thank you and congratulations for the daring, courage and perseverance. I hope to witness the celebration of ten years... twenty years...
Parabéns e obrigada.
Julia d'Amore (judamore/fiorellino)
生日快樂!
May you live to be (at least) 120 years old :)
Greetings from Israel!
Cheers to Postcrossing on its 5th Anniversary!
G'day from down under.
Hope it will grow as a child.
And attract more and more people from all over the world to join this large family~
Happy birthday !
Thank you Paulo and team for giving me my wonderful pen-pals (Natsuka, Duen, Naoko, Manami, Tomomi, Hitomi, Joanne, and all others I am temporarily forgetting *blush) and helping me learn so much about other cultures (Its like a free college class! Yippie).
I wish you all the success in the world with your project and hope its around for many more years to come! Thank you again for being a bright spot in my life :)
VERY GOOD IDEA:-)
FYI I couldn't get the code to work but that's ok :)
Emilie
Greetz
Marta & Mihau!!
Cheers
Kiron Manuel
I love postcrossing!!!!
I really love Postcrossing. It was, is and will be the best idea. I LOVE IT!!!
(-:Happy postcrossing:-)
So happy to know lots of friends from here, thanks for postcrossing!
Staci
I wish a long life to Postcrossing ... Bravo for this beautiful idea Paulo :o)
Thanks this nice idea website:D
Love so much!!~
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