December is juuuuust around the corner, and we know that many of our German members have been waiting for the announcement of our yearly collaboration with Deutsche Post. So it’s my pleasure to let you all know that our “Postcards for a good cause” campaign will also take place this year! Hurray! The rules haven’t changed, but for those who are new to Postcrossing or need a little refresher, here they are:
If you’re in Germany, all you have to do is send postcards, as many as you can! If your December postcards are registered before the end of February 2018, you will be contributing to this cause.
And although 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 too!
To keep things interesting, there’s also cool prizes for some randomly selected participants (residents in Germany only):
- Two €50 vouchers for www.allyouneed.com.
- Three €40 vouchers for Marke Individuell.
- Three post-themed messenger bags from Deutsche Post.
Pretty cool, right? All you need to do is send a postcard, and you’ll be automatically helping and entering in this lucky draw. As usual, the winners will be picked by Paulo's nifty random number generator in March 2018, at which point we will also announce here on the blog the total amount raised by German postcrossers to Stiftung Lesen. Last year, a grand total of €8,372.10 was raised for this good cause! 😊
Stiftung Lesen is a German non-profit organization, working to boost literacy in the population, especially among children, adolescents and newly arrived refugee families. Literacy and increasingly media literacy as well, are essencial requirements for success in life both on its professional and civic aspects. The funds raised in this campaign help the organisation run its many initiatives, such as reading clubs, libraries or research projects.
So… what are you waiting for? If you’re in Germany, get your postcards and stamps ready! The more cards you send in December, the more you’ll contribute — and the more chances you’ll have of winning a voucher, stamps or one of those neat messenger bags! 📯
P.S. – As always, we respect your personal information and will not share it with any company without your explicit permission. The full details of this campaign can be read here (German only).
37 comments so far
I can hardly wait ..... :-)
I've sent only 5 cards in October and none in November. So I saved stamps and money for the campaign. 41 slots are free and I would like to send as much cards as I can.
Ana, when starts it on Friday? 0:00 GMT or GMT +1?
Congratulations again to the German Post!!! :)
Yes! I am ready, all slots are free and the postcards are waiting to sent!
Happy Postcrossing!
My plan was to send cards today. But now i will wait 2 days more to support this campaign.
@-Bille- We use the Central European Time (German time) for counting these postcards, so the campaign starts at your local midnight.
If you request postcards between midnight and 1am on Friday, the date on those postcards will show Nov 30, but rest assured — they'll still be counted.
Great!!!
I've currently 50 open slots and hope that the still traveling cards will be registered soon. So next weekend will be spend with postcard writing:-)
Kudos for Deutsche Post! <3 #seasonspirits #xmasspirits
So great idea! It is a pity that the post of my country does not conduct anything like this.
Waiting for Friday 😁
@Ana: thank you for your answer.
That's an interesting fact and maybe you can add it to the Blog to inform the other postcrosser about it.
I haven't sent anything in the last two weeks (and that was sooo hard!), so I saved a bit on stamps and cards and I also have 75 free slots now. I honestly can't wait to start writing postcards again!!
wouldve loved if twas in india:) hope i get one
all the best to all germans for the lucky draw:D
and hats of to duesche post for the contribution!!
My first time to participate!! Hope to have many free slots in December...let's aim for many postcards fellow German postcrossers! :D
Good to know! Although I'm here for some years now, I must admit that I forgot about that campaign... I just wanted to draw some numbers, but now I'll wait until Friday and hope that a lot of my travelling postcards will arrive soon, so I'll be able to send some more cards in December!
This is awesome! :)
This is such great news! Haven’t read about it before, but now I’m really looking forward to Dec :-) I will try and participate as often as I can.
Just a question: shall the recipients send their postcards received from German members to any one who has a main function in Postcrossing or registering the German postcards which arrive from Friday (30 Nov.) to the 28th Feb. 2018 is enough. If I put this question is to be entirely clarified since I have never made part of this program.
So everybody around this world should register German postcards very soon!
I am also ready to start ;)
Unfortunately I only have 4 free slots, many of my postcards are still somewhere travelling. Some people just stop to appear for more than a month. I just wish that people who plan to make a break register the cards beforehand.
I was about to write some cards today, since I have 30 free slots.. guess I'll wait for the weekend to take part in this project! (I totally forgot about it to be honest) Thanks a lot to Deutsche Post. :)
Yay! I haven't sent postcards for weeks now, so I can write all of them on Friday, haha! :) Thanks to the Deutsche Post again! :)
@franciscojclima You just need to register the postcards you receive, as usual! :) Postcrossing will keep counting how many German postcards arrive during this time.
It is good to know that Postcards for a good cause starts again. I now wait till Friday to pick up new addresses to sent cards too. So the Stiftung Lesen may get a bit more money.
What good news for the German Post-crossers. Hiep Hiep Hoera!
I have saved the places for December. So 16 postcards can be mailed tomorrow.
Please, to everyone, who get a postcard, register it as soon as possible. Last year 5 places were blocked by people who were on holiday and so on.
One more question: I received today ( 1st Dec.)a postcard sent from Germany. Does this postcard count for this event since it was mailed one week ago? Or the counting postcards have in fact to be mailed on the 1st. Dec.? Francisco Lima -Portugal.
@franciscojclima Today is still not December 1st... but even if it was, that postcard would still not count, as only postcards sent from Germany in December count. We're guessing that postcard was sent sometime in November.
Unless it came from the future somehow... 🤔
So awesome - yay Postcrossing! I wish the USA would do something like this but I know it's not likely. :-( Yay Deutsche Post!
Just curiosity: Will travellers who send cards from Germany while in Travel Mode there be eligible for the lovely prizes offered above?
I am looking forward to registering many cards from Germany over the relevant period.
@ned44440 All postcards sent from Germany count, but travellers will not be entered in the lucky draw (since they're not residents).
Oh that's nice 😃 And I have 1 free slot 😲 Well, it's a start!
Great! Today I made a start and wrote six cards. I hope to send many cards this month - and even more I hope that they will all arrive and get registered. So let's go writing - and let's have lots of fun!
Great initiative! In Belgium this exists since 1997 (till now 2 million euro was collected, 250 projects were funded, 150.000 people got help). For each card sent in December with the special Christmas stamp, 1eurocent is donated to the fund. So as of now you will see a lot of X-mas stamps on my cards.
This is exciting!!! an endeavour that is being noticed by the glam squad Deutsche Post!! Banners Yonder!!!!!!!!
End of Decemper personal stats:
- 25 Postcards sent.
- Expecting three to four of them to expire (I put on as much effort to them as with usual cards. Envelopes, masking tape and stickers on every card, even on the ones to rural regions in russia)
- 7 cards from them are already received by their receivers.
- 7 cards from german senders sent in december have been registered by me so far.
- every sent postcard gets "GoGreen" donation stickers (which support anti-climate-change-projects) to do something against the pollution I produce sending my cards through the world.
love it
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