Late last year, Deutsche Post and Berlin’s Museum for Communications launched a video competition themed “Why do we still write letters?”, where people could post videos explaining the charm of written mail. They got over 400 video submissions, which you can see on their YouTube channel. They’re sweet, touching stories of why we still put pen to paper to write to to each other.
We only heard about the competition once it was over, but were happily surprised to find a video about Postcrossing among the entries! Have a look:
Johannes (aka joze-post) made this charming video, which does a great job of portraying the randomness of Postcrossing. He didn’t win the competition… but he stole our hearts with the cheerful music and fun details about some of the postcards. Well done Johannes! :)
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Nice video :). I enjoyed watching it !!
Great!!!
That was wonderful and so upbeat :-) Great job!
It's a winner to me!
Very entertaining. Thank you!
Lovely and truly represents the shower of images-messages-surprises we get!
Awesome! :)
Marjet is right. The dresses are awful.
Nice video! Nice blog.
Fantastic!
I enjoyed the video very much. It explains exactly what Postcrossing is
Perfectly done!
Yes, that's postcrossing. Great video!
Wonderful! Keep in mind there are postcrossers in Africa too ☺
Wonderful. The winning videos must have been spectacular!!!
So happy for this:) Postcrossing does bring us all together...
too good :)
Awesome Video!!
very nice :) Happy postcrossing!
Very nice! :)
Enjoyed the video :) Nicely done!
Loved it!
Awesome and entertaining video! But I won't deny I was expecting at least one postcard from Africa. This is the magic of postcrossing, it's universal!
Love this! There are some fun ideas for things to write about on our cards.
Great video, glad to be part of it all!
This is really cool! :)
Well done.
This was great!
It seems that the creator of this has used their own received postcards, which would explain the absence of African cards.
Lovely video. Very creative and I especially loved the occasional comments from the senders that came with postcards.
Very nice job! :-)
Very interesting :) Lovely video.
well done
I think my two favorite cards he showed were the Bulgarian shape/map card and the Lenin card! Amazing video!
Love it, thanks
Very nice! Well done!
Well-done! Enjoyed your video creation!
Stunning.very impressive
Very nice one :) :) :)
Thank you for sharing this :D It was fun to watch!
If he hasn't received anything from AFrica yet, he can't put it in a project of HIS received cards....
It's a really awesome video...thanks for sharing!
That´s a great idea! Bravo, joze-post!
i love it! it captures so well what postcrossing is about :)
Awesome video! :)
Great video, I loved it... Makes me wish to go through all the cards I've received so far and collect similar trivia...
What a great video! This is how I feel when I open my letterbox just to find another Postcrossing card in it :)
That's truly beautiful! (:
Great video!
I really like the video.
That was magical.
Just watching this puts a smile on your face!
Super, great video, well done!!!!
Wonderful.
Very charming. Love it!
Beautiful and charming video! Perfectly sums up Postcrossing (:
Great!!!Well done I love it Ciao
Thanks for sharing this very cute and fun video about postcards! I loved how Johannes included a little comment about some of the cards he has received. I loved it all! And of course, it's a way of sharing our love to paper mail :D
90 cents? Here in Canada it's $2.50 + $0.85 - $1.00 per postcard. Canada's post office should be ashamed.
The video was great though! =)
Thank you! What fun!
Awesome video! I love it! ♥♥♥
All the charm and pleasure of postcrossing in 2:43 seconds! thank you Johannes, and postcrossing staff for sharing it (and doing it possible).
It is just great. I love it <3
What a pleasure!
Thanks for the video. Yes 90c can connect the world :D
Great... You should have been the winner :-) very creative
A great way of promoting our hobby and to share the idea of learning more about the world through postcards.
Awesome video!
Just loved it!!!!!
Nice video, great work, Johannes :-)
That was fun! Thank you, Johannes, for sharing!!
Wonderfully done!! :-D
It's too bad we in the Postcrossing community did not have a vote. Johannes is a winner in our book, for sure. How about an encore...I could watch more of the same video. Thanks for sharing.
I love it! :)
Very well done, I like to see the real spirit in it!
He deserves an ambassador batch ;-)
I looooove it, Anneke /Flippie from Victoria BC
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