Blog > 15 Years of Happy Mailboxes + a new Postcrossing stamp... from Brazil!
It’s been 15 years today since Paulo flipped the switch to turn Postcrossing on — 15 years! 🎉 Can you believe that?! We’re a little incredulous ourselves… but immensely happy and grateful for the opportunity to come on this journey that has delivered millions of postcards around the world. Who could have imagined such an unlikely adventure?!
Awhile back, we asked you guys to upload a selfie with your mailbox to our anniversary wall, and almost 1000 of you accepted the challenge and showed us your happy mailboxes. It’s such a joy to browse the gallery now, and see your smiles and the places where all the postcards land! Mailboxes and mail slots seem to come in all shapes, sizes and materials, and quite a few of you even receive your mail directly from your mail carrier’s hands at your doorstep or on your local post office. So much color and diversity of mailboxes and ways of receiving mail!
We wanted to do a little surprise with these nice photos, so we put together a video filled with smiles to share with you all:

Sorry that we couldn’t put all of the photos in without making the video too long — we tried to include as many as we could. You can see all the photos on the 15 Years of Happy Mailboxes page, and the submissions will be open until the end of the month.
A big thank you to every single one of you out there, sending postcards to strangers across the world and helping make this planet a happier place — you are the stars of this celebration! 🤩 Join us in a little celebratory dance and enjoy this special day!
Before I get all weepy, let me just share some more good news: we have been working with Brazil Post on a new Postcrossing-themed stamp that is being released today! It’s a beautiful stamp by São Paulo’s illustrator Daniel Lourenço, showing 2 people connected through postcards. It’s a big, beautiful stamp (click the image to see a bigger version), and we have no doubt Brazilian postcards will look extra nice with it.
We’re so proud of the Postcrossing community in Brazil, whose persistence and dedication to their hobby resulted in this gorgeous stamp coming to life. Sadly, they cannot yet get together to celebrate the stamp launch right now… but there will be an online launch event (on Instagram and Youtube), and we’re certain postcrossers will make up for lost time when it is safe to meet in person again. Enjoy your new stamp, and we look forward to seeing it on many future postcards from Brazil 🇧🇷!
PS – Postcrossers in China 🇨🇳, if you can’t see the video above, try here.

Tags: anniversary, brazil, philately, postcrossing-stamp
201 comments so far
Looking forward to more Happy PostCrossing years!!
Cheers.
What a pleasure to be part of this community.
What an honour to represent Brazilian postcrossers.
Lots of fun still to come in the next years. For now, our big thank you.
Long life to this wonderful community!
Thank you for becoming our lives happier!
From Indonesia with love
let's meet tonight in meet up online 😍
THANK YOU ALL for the first 15 YEARS.
Love the New Post-stamp from Brazil.
Thank you to the team for all your efforts over the years, and to all members for making it magic!
I still cannot believe I only learnt about it 4 years ago, I feel like I missed out on 11 years! :D But I can enjoy the ones yet to come :D
From UDAIPUR
Rajasthan
India
There are four people in the picture, but there are five in fact
The worker wearing the mask is a mother to be
Work very seriously
The post office staff brought us surprise, joy and friendship
Happy 15th anniversary
Li Zhengqi, Zhengzhou, China
2020.7.14
HAPPY POSTCROSSING
Cogratulations to Paolo and Anna !
Great Postcrossing stamp issued in Brasil to a very nice time !
All the best from Bavaria, Germany to the Postcrossing members !
I'm very happy to join this wonderful project.
Thank you so much, Paolo and Anna! 😆
Lots of love from Japan ❤️❤️
Happy 15th Anniversary!
The show will go on!
The movie is great fun to watch - a poster of all these mailbox smiles would also be nice :-)
Brazilan stamp is simply great - hopefully one day I will receive it (and I am not a collector :-) ) what a pity that Germany still has no postcrossing stamp!
Ana and Paulo, thanks for your passion and dedication with which you run postcrossing and have always new ideas for the blog.THANK YOU!
Hope to get the Brazilian stamp !
:-)))
❤️
And happy birthday to my Dutch friend Marian too, whom I met through postcrossing!!!
I wish you both many, many years more!
I think I write that every time, but Postcrossing has really enriched my life so much. Thank you! :-)
Congratulations Paulo and Ana ... Thank you very much for having developed this beautiful and enriching experience: connecting with people from all over the world, experiencing stories, creating new friendships ... and everything around a simple passion: the postcard.
And finally, Congratulations to the Brazilian Community.
We congratulate the friends who provide a beautiful world gift and happiness!
Happy Birthday! 🙏💘👏🎂
Thank you for making my life so much happier. I love you ❤️
To receive a card from a stranger from another country always brightens my day, especially in these challenging days.
Sending a card, reviewing your new friends profile and selecting a card that they hopefully like is a special moment.
Thank you again and here's to the next 15 years of Postcrossing. 🏴🥳❤
And congratulations to the Postcrossers from Brazil you new stamp just looks so amazing and captures the essence of Postcrossing!
Thank you and congratulations to Ana and Paolo, the Postcrossing team and all our fellow Postcrossers!
Hurray, comrades!
We can celebrate together, today is my birthday too.
Happy postcrossing to every postcrosser in the world 📮 📬 good luck 🍀 and lots of beautiful cards and messages 😘!! love from Belgium, at the Northsea.
Happy Anniversary!
Fortuna dies natalis !
¡Feliz cumpleaños!
Feliz Aniversário!
Eida d’moladukh Hawee Brikha! -
Deiz – ha – bloaz laouen deoc ‘ h!
Eytyxismena Genethlia! sau Chronia Pola!
Inuuinni pilluarit!
Hau ‘ oli la hanau !
Yom Huledet Same’ ach!
Hyvaa syntymapaivaa!
عيد مولد سعيد!
Feliĉan naskiĝtagon!
生日快乐!
Happy Postcrossing's 15th Birthday everyone!
It is great, to learn about foreign people by postcards and make some of this foreign people to friends.
Go for the next 15 years!
Big hugs from Germany.
Wishes from Uganda 🇺🇬
Thank you for the wonderful time we have due to your good idea !!!
Many happy returns.
Keep spreading the joy
My last visit in the post museum in Tampere was great in seeing how letters and cards were transported a lot of years before I was born!
Happy life.
Beate
Thank you for this great project :D
Many thanks to everyone for this wonderful opportunity!
„You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. That's what gives you dignity, that the whole existence will miss you. The stars and sun and moon, the trees and birds and earth - everything in the universe will feel a small place is vacant which cannot be filled by anybody except you.
This gives you a tremendous joy, a fulfillment that you are related to existence, and existence cares for you. Once you are clean and clear, you can see tremendous love falling on you from all dimensions.” /OSHO/
With love Aiga from Latvia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsgP8LkEopM
Thank you for this marvelous idea!
Kisses from Tuscany!
Truly, you are making the world a better place.
Cheers from Canada.
Cheers from FRANCE
We will continue here to get many more.
Happy birthday !!
Congratulations to Paulo and Ana and thank you for such a great idea
I'm very happy to be part of this community !
From Russia with love)
The Brazilian Postcrossingstamp is terrific!
anyone interested in Postcrossing stamp exchange with Switzerland, let me know :-)
Compliments to Brazil for this lovely new Postcrossin stamp
Thank you for this wonderful project! It brings the world closer together.
So many happy people in the video!
Thank you for the enjoyment we can find in our mailboxes))))
P.S.: Of course I also hope to be lucky and get one of the wonderful Brazilian stamps... 😊
Parabéns pelo aniversário. Parabéns pela ideia. Parabéns pelos frutos. Parabéns pela união. Parabéns pela diversidade.
Embora estejam na faixa etária da "adolescência", é um dos projetos mais maduros em que tenho o prazer de colaborar.
You've saved the world's post service.
I'll be here with you all my life.
We love Postcrossing since more than seven years and have met each other on this site ! Maybe you remember last year October in Bielefeld !
Thanks a lot again, stay safe and warm greetings,... Jutta & Reiner
I'm on my way to buy the new stamp edition in Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. I guess I am going to buy A LOT OF IT ! :-)
HarryBrasil
Congratulations with this thirth lustrum.
I will also say thanks to my friend Marthe from Sweden ( met by postcrossing) for here congratulations via this blog.
I hope that I can be a member for lots of years:))
Stay safe and enjoy life!!
Thank you, dear Postcrossing Team, and Thank you, dear Postcrossers! This hobby always gives me so much pleasure!
Congratulations, Brazil! What an amazing Postcrossing stamp, I really would love to get this one on my cards ;)
Greetings from Pakistan 🇵🇰
For postcrossers: Are you a supporter of the project? What better birthday gift for Postcrossing than for you to become one: https://www.postcrossing.com/support
p.s. is it possible to get the stamp somewhere?
Paulo and Anna,
Crongratulations on the 15th anniversary!
I hope many more will follow.
Then all Postcrossers still a lot of fun.
Thanks for all your work!!
Posted by BBetsie Postcrossing Supporter on 20 Jul, 2020 - Delete
The stamp is stunning and I would love to receive one ... unfortunately I've never gotten a card from Brasil until now, so this would be a miracle. But... never quit hoping! :D
Lots of love! You rocked the postcard world for 15 years, you'll rock it for 15 more and more and more and more!!!! :-)
Thanks to you so many people all over the world connect to each other. That's a miracle by itself and you made it happen! :-)
I love the new Brazilian Postcrossing stamp and hope to see at least one on a card I receive.
Best wishes to one and all, Nora
Abraço aos dois!
Congratulations on your initiative, which will last for many 15 years!
A Hug to both!
Thank you
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, POSTCROSSING!!
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