Blog > 50! MILLION! POSTCARDS!
🎉 Hurraaaaaay! 🎉 We did it everyone! We reached the big 50 million, and we couldn’t be prouder of all of you for delivering us to this milestone with your avalanche of postcards these past 13 years!
Did you know that if we put all these postcards together side by side (assuming they’re all regular size), we would get a line connecting New York to Moscow? Yup! And all the distance they’ve traveled would put us way beyond the Solar System at this point… though still very far from Alpha Centauri, the next big thing in space. Maybe by the time we reach it, they’ll have a post office there! 🤔

Anyway, I know you’re all waiting to discover which postcard was the lucky one, so here it goes:
Postcard number 50,000,000 (IL-60207) was sent by nostase in Israel on 29 November 2018, and registered today at 19:13:01 (UTC) by RassDim in Russia!
The postcrosser with the most accurate aim was Isacle, whose guess was spot on! Well done, your new box of 100 photo postcards is on its way.
But we’re not done here yet — there are loads more prizes to give away! The other fourteen lucky postcrossers who came the closest to the right time were pele32, Admiral_Penguin, vasilcho, stokana, uintaterium, Mari-Pyon, makeuplover, ingunciks, Washisaur, RinClare, estromberg, Alexiel-chan, raraelli and starrynight1111 — great job! You will each receive a set of nice postcards as well.
And last but not least, the sender and the recipient of this special card will also receive a pack of 50 postcards, to celebrate their good luck. Hurray!
We encourage you to enjoy your contributions to this historical milestone by eating one celebratory cookie (or 50!) and sending some postcards on this very special day. Thank you so much to our team of volunteers, to all the supporters and ambassadors, and last but not least, to every single one of you, for believing in this project and keeping the world’s mailboxes filled with smiles. 😊 Onwards to Alpha Centauri!

112 comments so far
Happy Postcrossing forever.
I can’t believe I was so close to the time, thank you!
Next year we also celebrate at 1st November 2019 , 150 years issued of the first POSTCARD ! Maybe also 60 mil Postcrossing cards ... !
Congratulations, everyone from 50 000 000 !!!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, alle von 50.000.000 !!!
And thanks a lot to everyone who made this possible! I'm so happy to be part of this wonderful community. 💛😊
We wrote and received 50 million cards
THANK YOU to Paulo & Ana
for this project: P O S T C R O S S I N G
Next milestone, 60 million!!! A Great Project for Great People. Cheers.
-SALLY
Demaris
Today I got postcards from Texas and Taiwan. Who knows what will arrive in the mail tomorrow?
Happy Postcrossing!
Congratulations to all the post crossers
Great achievement
Postcard 50,000,000 was registered at 19:13:01 UTC time. Since ET is UTC-5 at the moment, that would be your 14:13:01.
Just requested an address to celebrate....
Congrats everyone !
And the postman has just brought me a postcard to help us on the way to 100 million!
Up to 60 million!
50 million official cards that has spread joy. And then there's the postcards send as private swaps, round robins, tags and surprise cards (thanks to this site and the forum). That's many postcards and many smiles!
Congrats to Paulo and Ana for a wonderful Postcrossing family and to all of us to make it happen
Congratulations to sender, receiver, and all the rest.
Continue on sending cards and may you each who read this have a happy mail day 💕
Happy Postcrossing and... happy New Year!
Maybe we should already send our postcards to Alpha Centauri so they might arrive just in time when they open their post office :)
happy New Year
And thank you for this contest, I am happy to be one of the winners. I didn't expect to win, so it was a big surprise for me. 'o'
Happy postcrossing everyone ! 😊
Congrats to @Isacle
Congratulations to those who received prizes and guess the exact time of arrival cards!
Let's hit 100 million!
2019 awaits!!
I remember when I started 2010, and it was close to 3 million cards. It was 8,5 years ago. Wow!!!!
I love going to mail box everyday and find surprises same as you...
Congratulations to all of us + the mail carriers.
I wish every one a very good Postcrossing New Year!
I guessed it would be done in 2019 (only feeling).
In fact, the acronym is a compromise between the two languages, so that neither is favored — confusing and genius at the same time! 😊
Thanks again, Postcrossing founders!
Roxanne
Thank you very much!
Happy New Year!
Peace, Love and Joy!
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