Blog > Postcrossing & Deutsche Post: Postcards for a good cause!
December starts this coming weekend and if you’ve been around Postcrossing for a few years you should know what that means… It’s time to announce our yearly partnership with Deutsche Post on the Cards for Literacy campaign! 🎉 So without further ado:
So if you’re in Germany, all you have to do is to send postcards! If your December postcards are registered before the end of February 2020, you will be contributing to this cause and entering a draw to win some neat prizes! Seven lucky postcrossers (residents in Germany only) will be randomly selected to receive one of these:

- One voucher for the Marke Individuell Online Shop worth 100€.
- Three vouchers for the Marke Individuell Online Shop worth 40€ each.
- Three post-themed messenger bags from Deutsche Post.
So by sending postcards from Germany in December, you’re not only helping a good cause, but can also win some customizable stamps or maybe a messenger bag. Hurray! The more postcards you send, the more chances you have to win one of the prizes.
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. So don’t forget to register your postcards promptly, so that more can be sent, ok?
As usual, Paulo will run his random number generator in March next year, and we’ll reveal the total amount of postcards sent (and money raised to Stiftung Lesen) here in the blog. Last year, a total of 8,977.70€ was raised for this good cause, which was a huge achievement and only a few postcards shy of the big 9K… will we be able to do even better this year? 🤔

Stiftung Lesen is a German non-profit organization, working to increase literacy in the population, especially among children and adolescents. Their activities include reading clubs, media literacy projects and initiatives to promote the learning of German language by refugee families in the country.
We hope you’re as excited as we are for this 7th edition of the Cards for Literacy campaign. If you’re in Germany, gather your stamps and postcards and get ready for sending lots of postcards in December to make them count for this good cause! Everyone else, keep an eye on your mailbox for those postcards!
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).

Tags: cardsforliteracy, charity, deutsche-post, holiday-campaign, postcards-for-a-good-cause-2019
42 comments so far
We will receive more Germany Postcards
Ana, starts it again on midnight with the date of 30 Nov till 1am?
https://forum.postcrossing.com/viewthread.php?tid=125397#pid8232927
Maybe you come to visit us.
Hope to receive even more beautiful German postcards than usual.
Although the time in the Traveling Postcards page is shown in UTC (one hour behind), any postcards sent after your midnight on December 1st will be counted. :)
Let's go for it!
Our Citipost standard letter for example is actually cheaper as sending a postcard on Deutsche Post, but that's bound to the city where the letter is posted from.
So no time to write more here;) just thanks for the great counter for the German postcard
I was just going to write some new postcards before I received this good informations!! In Geman we call that `Zufall´.
I don`t know this word in English. Does it exist?
Ok, must come in the move now and start writing!!
Have a good time all together, enjoy Christmas!!
Juergen from Loy (PJP as Blogger)
I heard about the new feature in the German forum !
(or maybe I didn't search in the right place, that's also possible)
#CardsForLiteracy
You Everyone
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