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March at last! We’ve been anxiously waiting for this day to finally reveal how many postcards for a good cause were sent from Germany 🇩🇪 last December. Are you ready to find out? Here goes…

Send a postcard!
Postcrossers in Germany sent a total of 89,777 postcards during December, raising €8,977.70 for Stiftung Lesen!

Hurray! Congratulations to all postcrossers for this record-breaking achievement! 2018 was the best year yet in all the years we’ve been running the Cards for Literacy campaign with Deutsche Post. We really admire the dedication of our many German members — whether you’ve sent 1 or 100 postcards throughout December, they’re all appreciated.

And of course, every postcard has a sender and a receiver, and they’re both part of each exchange — so thank you to all the recipients as well. Your prompt registration of all these postcards also contributed to this record.

And last but not least, a huge thank you to Deutsche Post, for collaborating with Postcrossing and standing by their commitment to improve literacy in Germany every year. Hurray! 🎉

All that is left to do is for Paulo to run his magic script to choose the winners of this year’s prizes. If you’re in Germany and participated in this campaign, keep an eye on your email — if you won a prize, you’ll receive a notification shortly! 😊

44 comments so far

Willi, Germany

Good job !!!

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Bille, Germany

Woohoo! Great! What an outstanding result.
Thanks to all who sent and registered cards.

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Beat, Germany

Thank you to all the receivers of my cards that they registered them soon to be counted for the campaign!

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Inselfreundin, Germany

As I'm working in a library and know the work of the "Stiftung Lesen" very well, I'm very pleased by this result. They really do a good job helping children to become vivid readers. Thanks to all.

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Geminiscp, Portugal

Amazing!! Good job, everyone!!!! :)

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Lox, Germany

If anyone wants to double up the amount of money Stiftung lesen is getting, here are the bank details:

Stiftung Lesen
IBAN: DE24 5519 0000 0009 3939 35
BIC: MVBMDE55
Mainzer Volksbank

Deutsche Post is giving a large amount of money and if we all gave just a few Euro more it would be tremendous.

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Inger71, Norway

Good job!! 👏👏👏

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xtlera, Germany

This is great! 😍

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ned44440, Ireland

Absolutely wonderful. Well done to everyone and good to the winners. Everyone's a winner 😁🙋

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CorgiGirl, United States of America

Great job!!

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tendoriana, United States of America

Amazing job!

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Gio123, Germany

Cool :)

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mysweetlife63, United States of America

WooHoo! Great job!!!

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Sidolix, Germany

Yes, we did it again, with more cards ever...!
Good feeling !

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AmitxSahoo, India

It is a really good thing. Congrats to all German Postcrossers!!

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Feuerfunke, Germany

wohooooo!!!!

what a very big amount! Thank you all - sender and receiver!
it was a lot of fun to write many many christmas cards and send them out to the world :D

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Jenzeestyle, United States of America

AMAZING

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NIDUSKA, Finland

thank you

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packrat, Germany

December was one of the weakest months for me. I would have liked to send and receive more cards. Nevertheless, I am happy to have contributed a small amount. Thanks to all who contributed to this success!

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Gen24, United States of America

Congrats Germany! That is amazing. You Germans get stuff done!

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nicetry1974, Germany

I am sad, I only sent 23 cards in December together with both my accounts. I hoped I had sent more ... :(

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CrimsonKing, United States of America

Awesome job Germany!! Proud of you!!

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Mosshumla, Sweden

Wow! German postcrossers are amazing!

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mounten, Italy

Well done job Germany, C O N G R A T U L A T I O N !!!!!!

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rroychang, Taiwan

Amazing Germany, I know why i will received more and more cards in my mail box. Thanks again.

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Jecaly, Germany

I'm happy: my 25 postcards reached their goal just in time.

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Knerq, United States of America

Awesome! Stiftung Lesen seems like a great organization.

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Luluz, Finland

❤️ 🌹

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LuSays, United Kingdom

That is brilliant!

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MerlinM, Germany

That is great. Unfortunately 3 of my cards did not arrive in time. But 63 did and that makes me happy. Thanks to all who registered the postcards in time. :-D

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vlada_123, Russia

Oh, congratulations to the German Postcrossing participants! In 2018, I received and sent many postcards to Germany. Congratulations to the one who gets the prize!

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StetsFlauschig, Germany

I always save up all my free adresses and some money for stamps for this project :) Love to take part! 42 cards this year, more and more each year :) Feels good to do two good things at once! Thanks for making it possible :)

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Bowyum, Australia

Congratulations to the nineteen people who sent me cards from Germany in December :)

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Miguel-Isaias, Portugal

During December, I received 23 cards from Germany.
Amazing!
Great job!

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Francesca419, United States of America

What a great cause! Congratulations to all the participants!!! Job Well Done!!!!

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jeroenvberlo, Netherlands

Great news. Well done German Postcrossers.
I was very glad to register the cards.

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Demmi, Romania

Congratulations Germany!
Wir gratulieren Deutschland!

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HelloaRaa, Indonesia

Awesome! Germany

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fisherman, Ireland

Nice Work Germany !

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teamug, Germany

I am glad that the Deutsche Post supports this good project while liaising with Postcrossing.
It's a great collaboration....

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rlbucky, United States of America

Awesome!!!

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Salexander, United States of America

Good job everyone, this seems like a fun and great fundraiser. It would be nice to chart how the numbers have progressed over the years, not sure how long it has been going on. It may even inspire more interaction!

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Bille, Germany

@Salexander: In the German Forum you can find stats about the campaign:
https://forum.postcrossing.com/viewthread.php?tid=111254#pid8232936

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Talal90Ahmed, Iraq

so pretty halo--

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