Notice something different? Postcrossing has donned its winter theme and is ready for the holidays! This is the season for generosity, and this year we’re really excited to announce that we’ve partnered with Deutsche Post to make your postcards be part of a good cause. Here’s the deal:
So that’s it, really simple! If you’re in Germany, all you have to do is keep sending postcards! If your December postcards are registered before the end of February 2014, you’ll be contributing to this cause.
And though only postcards sent from Germany count, there’s always a receiver in every postcard exchange – so each time a card from Germany is registered, the recipient will be indirectly contributing to this donation as well!
To make things even more interesting, there will also be some nice prizes for the participants:
- 50 bus tickets for the new Postbus service, valid on any trip on their network.
- 20 custom-designed stamp sheets, each including 15 international postage stamps with Postcrossing’s logo;
Stiftung Lesen is a German non-profit organization, working to increase literacy – especially among children and adolescents. They promote reading through several different activities, such as the “My first letter” contest.
So… what are you waiting for? If you are in Germany, grab a pen and your stack of postcards and stamps, and start writing! The more cards you send, the more you’ll contribute to this cause – and the more chances you’ll have of winning a prize! :)
PS – As always, we respect your private information and will not share it with any company without your express permission. The full details of this campaign can be read here (German only).
61 comments so far
I love this cooperation! (Unfortunately, USPS desperately needs all the money itself ...) ;)
A wonderful idea - let's roll...
What a brilliant idea!!! Soooo cool !!!
Great idea! Bravo Deutsche Post!
It´s a very good idea from the "Deutsche Post" to make this donation for "Stiftung Lesen"....
Great!
I appreciate MUCH Deutsche Post now. They see benefits of cooperation from a totally different point of view than Finnish mail company Itella (which is increasing stamp's prices MUCH in January). Yay for Deutsche Post!!
Excellent idea! I'll be more than happy to do my bit. :-)
wow! Bravo Deutsche Post!
There 's something I don't really understand. Do you have to send them from Germany no matter what country you're origenally from or is it only for German postcrossers?
By the way: I love the background!
really cool idea^^!
@mapa: sadly, it's just for German postcrossers. Who knows, maybe in future years more postal operators will join :)
And thank you! We're very proud of our designer, Maria: http://www.mariawalnut.com
That's a very good cause! It's super of deutsche post!
Deed Postnl dat ook maar voor onze Nederlandse Stichting Lezen!
I hope recived many postcards from Germany!! good luck to all German postcrossers :)
I'll make an account for the kids on our German adress! It's a super initiative that needs to be supported!
This is a fantastic news and hopefully, could inspire other countries' postal company too!
..what a great idea, hope to get lots of adresses in this time to send ;o)
@ minnasusanne: here you can also buy regular stamps with donation. But our postage is also raised ( second year in a row for in-germany letters )
But I like this idea of doing good
Well done Deutsche Post!
Awsome idea!!!
This is so fantastic! Now everyone in all the countries need to send cards, so the Germans have addresses to send to!! :D :D :D :D
Thats soooo cool. Stiftung Lesen is really wonderful, I love this project.
Great idea. One more reason to send a postcard :-) .
Wonderful idea.
(The light blue background is very pretty!)
Great idea!
Let's start sending! :-)
*thumbs up* for Deutsche Post! Maybe we can persuade more mail-companies to join next year? Good luck to all German Postcrossers!
By the way: The postage for letters in Germany will be higher from Januar 2014, 0,02 EUR up to 0,60 EUR...
Just picked my share and hope to send more...
In Belgium, for every 'christmas-stamp' used in December, B-Post will donate € 0.01 to a comparable fund.
I wish I lived there so I could help! Kudos!
I'll do my very best! ;)
Good news, congrats to DP and Postcrossing!
This is absolutely awesome!!! :)
Great idea but the Australian postcard postage rate has almost doubled since October which makes it a little harder to send as many cards as I would like.
Beautiful idea! Looking forward to receive more DE cards ;)
Thanks so much for your good idea.
Thanks for all the good luck wishes! Hehe!
One of the moments where I love living in this country :))
Sadly I cannot send more postcards, all are traveling right now :(
Great idea. I will send,send,send.... :D
Let's get the 3.000.000 postcard for Germany!!!!
What a great idea! I wished I could start sending cards right away, but I can't as I have too many travelling....We complain about the Deutsche Post so much, but in fact the service is usually good and reliable, postage is cheap compared to most other (European) countries and NOW this project is something to be proud of! Thanks!
That's SUPER! Go for it Germans!!! :-)
I send many cards from Germany, as I love to do postcrossing wherever I am! :-)
You have beautiful cards and lovely stamps! :-)
What a great idea. I will donate at least 10cent to a local charity here in Galway, Ireland for every postcard I receive from Germany between now and the end of February including the card I received today.
Great idea!
Uow! Great idea! I'll try to spread it here in Brazil at Correios.
Wow, hats of to Deutsche Post, thats for a good cause, hope other countries too follow them, another unique reason to be member of Post crossing. Germans feel proud !!!
A good idea! Hopefully other countries would do the same soon! :)
What if expand it to cover those postcards sent from the Postcrossing Forum?
@CharlesLing-ChihWong: sadly, we have no way of accounting for those, so for now only postcards sent through Postcrossing (with an ID) will count for this campaign.
I wish the rest of us could do something for the Phillipines
This is totally awesome!!!!
Fantastic campaign! So I'll start writing straight away :-)
Discriminates against non-Germany residents.
This is very cool... I'm in Germany and this definitely encourages me to send out some cards today!
that is wonderful, so I am form Germany I try to Keep them busy!!
How about allowing German postcrossers to send more cards in December? I would send more if I could! ;-)
So it is even better I have not sent my 41 cards before December :)
Better spend the money the prices cost, too. It's for a good thing. ;-)
Sadly I can't send more cards at the same time. (Allow to send more cards during December ^^)
I hope you'll tell us how many cards arrived in time. :-)
привет! объясните по русски что нужно делать? спасибо заранее. Английский не очень хорошо понимаю.......
Great! I wish the similar profect would be initiated by Japan Post too!
太棒了，China邮政也应该学习一下
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