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Blog > Today is World Post Day!

Hurray! October 9th is World Post Day!

This is the day to celebrate traditional mail, and the important role it plays in connecting the world… not to mention making sure our postcards reach their intended destinations, in all corners of the planet! So we invite you to celebrate the day, pat your mail carrier on the back and send a few extra postcards on this very special day. :)

With your help, we’ve contacted many postal operators and museums worldwide to find out how they were commemorating World Post Day. Sadly, most seem to have forgotten their own day… but a few replied, so here is the list of the events taking place this year:

List of events for World Post Day 2015

If you find any more, leave us a comment below and we’ll add them to the list.>

Today is also the day in which the new Ukrainian Postcrossing stamp makes its debut! If you’re in Lviv and Kiev, don’t forget there will be launching events in your city, which you can attend. Elsewhere in Ukraine, you should be able to spot the new stamp on your local post office. If you do, please share a photo with us — we’d love to see how it looks on a postcard!

Happy World Post Day everyone! 📯

Posted by meiadeleite on 9 Oct, 2015

Tags: postcrossing-stamp, ukraine, world-post-day

22 comments so far

Happy World Post Day! And the Ukrainian stamp is lovely!

Posted by SusanRae on 9 Oct, 2015

To those who live in the "future" … Happy World Post Day! 📯 What a lovely new Ukrainian Postcrossing stamp!

Posted by sumares on 9 Oct, 2015

HAPPY WORLD POST DAY :D

Posted by abbyaguas on 9 Oct, 2015

My first postcard on postcrossing.com reached the destination today, what a historic moment on world's Post Day! :D

Posted by Ishar on 9 Oct, 2015

Greetings from Belarus! Happy World Post Day!
All cities in the post offices are quizzes and lotteries with awarding prizes and gifts! http://www.belpost.by/press-centre/news-company/1850.html
Today began voting for a new character BELPOST!! http://belpost.golosovanie.by/

Posted by OlgaBy on 9 Oct, 2015

Happy world post day! And thanks Postcrossing for making us aware of it :)

Posted by avanesdonk on 9 Oct, 2015

Greetings from France!
Happy World Post Day everyone :-)
MANY thanks to the great people who invented this fantastic website called Postcrossing!

Posted by CaroSmile on 9 Oct, 2015

Happy World Post everyone! May your mailboxes be filled with postcards. I will be sending out a few extra cards today to celebrate.

Posted by Blogger on 9 Oct, 2015

I'm a bit sad, I can't send cards. This last year my cards didn't arrive.
But happy world post day!

Posted by Nammak on 9 Oct, 2015

HAPPY WORLD POST DAY !!!!

Posted by riazkhan4880 on 9 Oct, 2015

Greetings from Samara (Russia)!
My congratulations to everyone who's connected with post and Postcrossing! I'm sorry but I'll send a postcard tomorrow (but I'm going to requst an address some minutes later). But this Sunday it'll be Postcrossing meeting in our city. After it we'll visit the main post office and send our postcard with special cancellation. =)

Posted by Verunslv on 9 Oct, 2015

Happy world post day!

I would have loved to pat my postwoman on the back today, but unfortunately she didn´t stop at my house today... I´ll try again tomorrow :-) :-)

Posted by froukjeb on 9 Oct, 2015

After postal volume was quite low the last days because of the post strike, I have received a whole pile today! And I sent a few extra ones as well. Happy World Post Day !!

Posted by chrissybaby on 9 Oct, 2015

The postman did not even come here today....

Posted by CatharinaG3 on 9 Oct, 2015

Greetings from Poland! Happy World Post Day!

Posted by mrmangus on 9 Oct, 2015

My post office lady had never heard of it! Such a shame 😔

Posted by vicki131983 on 10 Oct, 2015

Happy World Post Day everyone around the world connected to Postcrossing. Sadly New Zealand has nothing planned to celebrate this. :(

Posted by Kereru on 10 Oct, 2015

Joining in from the Netherlands to say:
"Happy World Post Day."

Posted by jeroenvberlo on 10 Oct, 2015

Greetings from Italy "Happy World Post Day."

Posted by Vincenzo51 on 10 Oct, 2015

BRILLIANT to have a World Post Day, let's all celebrate and post something. Pity the the British Royal Mail does not appear to mark the day. Greetings all Postcrossers.

Posted by PeaceFox on 11 Oct, 2015