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Blog > The World Postcard Day is finally here!

Hurraaaaaay! 🥳 The World Postcard Day is here at last!

What started as a small idea last year, slowly grew into a real worldwide campaign that connects not just postcrossers but everyone that is happy to find a postcard in their mailbox at the end of the day… which is basically everyone we know! The humble postcard celebrates its 151^st anniversary today, and so this is the perfect date to throw a party in honor of our favorite means of communication.

A bunch of World Postcard Day themed postcards, next to stamps and a pen

So many of you have enthusiastically welcomed the idea of a World Postcard Day, and it’s been a joy to see it come to life. The #worldpostcardday hashtag on Instagram is brimming with pictures of all the lovely postcards and activities you’ve put together. Lots of you have printed Leandro’s postcard which we’ve made available last month. Teachers everywhere have been downloading the lesson plan which is now available in several languages thanks to helpful postcrossers. Who knows how many children will write their first postcard today!

Even on this atypical year filled with lockdowns and social distancing, a few postal services, museums and libraries joined the initiative issuing special postcards and cancellation marks, showcasing postcards online, or finding ways to safely involve local communities in the festivities — you can find more details about them on the Events page. Some of these events take place online, so do check them out!

Whichever way you choose to celebrate the day, make sure to send a few postcards and brighten someone’s day. We wish you all a very happy World Postcard Day — the first of many to come! 🎉

Posted by meiadeleite on 1 Oct, 2020

Tags: postal-history, postcardrevolution2020, worldpostcardday, worldpostcardday2020

108 comments so far

sent some today

Posted by NIDUSKA on 1 Oct, 2020

i sent 25 official cards today. Happy World Postcard Day

Posted by IndonesiaRaya on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day!

Posted by abbyaguas on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day!

Posted by Dianxxxxxx on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day!

Posted by Queenie3104 on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day!

Posted by dj_superman on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy world postcrossing day everyone.

Posted by Shashidar on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy world postcard day everyone! Love from Malaysia❤️

Posted by FarraFarikh on 1 Oct, 2020

I love sending postcards to friends and relatives completely out of the blue. They 🥰love it! It’s so much fun to send postal joy to someone who’s not expecting it.
That will be my World Postcard Day celebration.

Posted by sallyanne on 1 Oct, 2020

I am sending out 15 cards today

Posted by Angeladonna on 1 Oct, 2020

I sent out a bunch, and it's been fun!! It was a blast to say "HAPPY World Postcard Day", and my friends and acquaintances would expect no less than this from me!

Posted by NRubinstein on 1 Oct, 2020

Can’t wait to send off some wonderful postcards to celebrate!

Posted by aerobear on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy world postcard day everyone!

Posted by Mattie07 on 1 Oct, 2020

Sending out 9 so far!

Posted by bradtruth on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World 1st Postcard Day! XD XD XD

So far I am unable to request any address on Postcrossing.com website. The postal service restriction is making me mad.. I want to earn the badge but how to earn with this restriction.. :\

Posted by nisnoopy3 on 1 Oct, 2020

I’ve got a dozen postcards written and ready to be mailed!

Posted by ChattyCathy on 1 Oct, 2020

Today I sent out nine postcards to friends across the United States. I love choosing the right post card for each and sending along a hello.

Posted by Birdy231 on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day to everyone! I printed 50 postcard, so I will be busy today, but I am looking forward to that. The postcards will travel to family members, friends and of course Postcrosser. :-)

Posted by simi12 on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day!

Posted by aning0918 on 1 Oct, 2020

happy world postcard day my friends！

Posted by WuLeike on 1 Oct, 2020

Sending my post crossing cards in the morning (AKST) but sending more to friends and family across the globe :)

Posted by srlissick on 1 Oct, 2020

I prepared 14 cards to swapper and friends that I'll mail off in a couple of minutes. Later today I'll write some Postcrossing cards.
Happy WPD to all of us cardlovers!

Posted by zwergi on 1 Oct, 2020

I'm really happy to celebrate this special day by sending many postcards !!!

Posted by Anne-Liam on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy post crossing day and chinese mid-autumn festival!

Posted by loklokwan on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy #Worldpostcardday

Posted by Vnutrishka on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy holiday！I am so happy that today is such a special day witch also the Mid-autumn Festival and the National Day in China!

Posted by Quue on 1 Oct, 2020

Haven’t been on postcrossing for a long time! I’m happy to get my card travelled again! Mid Autumn Festival🥮 + National Holiday🇨🇳 + World Postcard Day! Awesome! Everything special made my day today! Love this way to connect the world ♥️

Posted by Karvester on 1 Oct, 2020

Will be sending 15 official card today.

Posted by ThePOSTCARDPerfect on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day ! I am going to send 10 cards ! Happiness ❤️

Posted by H1ldeke on 1 Oct, 2020

I'm going to send 11 postcards today, Happy Postcard Day everyone 📮

Posted by julianmcahonk on 1 Oct, 2020

I have generated twice the amount of my monthly limit and in a moment I will throw it in the mailbox. I hope that all postcards will reach the recipients soon

Posted by ybur on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy world Postcard day! May everyone find lovely card at their mailbox today :)

Posted by dollart on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy Postcard Day!!! Unfortunately my cards aren't that fast nowadays so i have only one card to send today, but at least i have one.

Posted by Kushboo on 1 Oct, 2020

I've been hanging on to spots to send cards today. :-) I have 17 World Postcard Day cards ready to send for Postcrossing, plus another 22 to send to friends and family. Now I'm going to bed as it's 2:45am where I am and I'll go to the post office later in the day to get everything mailed! :-)
Happy World Postcard Day everyone!!

Posted by cheller7 on 1 Oct, 2020

Unfortunately I cannot request any address because of the Covid-19 Situation in India and we cannot send Mails/Cards to every country but nevertheless Happy Postcard Day to every Postcrosser around the Globe. Take care.

Posted by AmitxSahoo on 1 Oct, 2020

Just off to the Postbox! Happy World Postcard Day 2020....

Posted by Verona10 on 1 Oct, 2020

I wrote a few cards to send today. I hope I receive one at least :)

Posted by Sandristica on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy #Worldpostcardday!

Posted by ogait on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy #Worldpostcardday, everyone!
May every postcard reach its recepient, and may every postcrosser receive plenty of wonderful postcards in their mailbox in the coming days!

Posted by michelle_2012 on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard day!

Posted by Mosshumla on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day!❤️

Posted by vango on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day Everyone 💝🙋‍♀️ So far I have only two postcards to sent out 📤 but the day is young 😃
Best wishes to all, Nora ☘🍀☘🍀☘

Posted by ned44440 on 1 Oct, 2020

I've sent a mixture of postcards - some to friends, others informally through the forum, as well as a couple to members on Postcrossing.

World Postcard Day is another of your great ideas - long may it continue! 📯

Posted by figtrees on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy First World Postcard Day everyone. I will drop 25 postcards to postcrossers around the world way on the way to work today.

Posted by wifetoalineman on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard day, everyone!
Sending some officials today, of course...

What do you think? Will we crack the 800000 member mark today???

Posted by kugusch on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day! While I wasn’t able to send postcards today, I celebrated by making a Postcard Tree decorated with Postcrossing postcards I’ve received featuring mailboxes, the postman and correspondence-related subjects. I also placed coin banks shaped like postal boxes in front of the tree and hung up a mailbox in the back. Wish I could share the photos!

Posted by susandg on 1 Oct, 2020

I’ll be sending postcards also.

Posted by Nana805 on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day! Many thanks to Ana and Paulo for the organisation!
I have sent some 10 postcards this morning, with a few more to write in the coming days. 😉

Posted by mikebond on 1 Oct, 2020

Sent some postcards today!
Happy World Postcard Day! ❤️

Posted by zarielcharoitite on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day. I could only send 1 card

Posted by Theetje00 on 1 Oct, 2020

My day started by writing about the World Postcard Day on my weblog.( As suggested on the World Postcard Day website) I have published a collection of 16 antique postcards of our watermill, from 1900 to the 1950's. After my sandwiches I'll start writing some cards to Postcrossers and Friends.

Posted by liesbeth_france on 1 Oct, 2020

As an enthusiastic new Postcrosser, my partner and I made, and have mailed, 75 specially-made World Postcard Day Postcards. Photo on front; poem on back. 50 in English. 25 in both English / French.
A couple went to the Postcrossing addresses that I am permitted. The rest went to family and friends. They will arrive just before Canada's Thanksgiving Day, the second Monday in October.
As other Postcrossers have mentioned, recipients like to get something in the mail other than bills! Something that cheers them up.
And so, today is a particularly good time to send out a cheery "hello" as many of us also find ourselves facing the Second Wave of Covid-19.

Posted by HookedonPostcards on 1 Oct, 2020

Hi,
I've sent two Postcrossing cards and six other postcards today; one is to the school where I used to teach to tell the children about World Postcard Day. Hurrah for Postcrossing!

Posted by jmarine on 1 Oct, 2020

I started the celebration, early, by requesting an address every working day during the last two weeks, hoping perhaps some might receive their postcard on WORLD POSTCARD DAY! A couple of those postcards will go out today. Looking forward to my new decade of sending and receiving. (And I plan to renew my badge as a Postcrossing Supporter, too) Happy Postcrossing WORLD POSTCARD DAY!

Posted by betslets on 1 Oct, 2020

I was flipping out on Sept. 28th because I had messed up and used all of my travelling spots. My husband thought I was crazy. Well, TWO postcards have been registered since yesterday. I wish I could send more, but I am so happy to at least send these.

Posted by mimi2007 on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day!

Posted by bushra35 on 1 Oct, 2020

I just have sent 20 postcards to family and friends and 10 official cards to Postcrossers.
Happy World Postcard Day!

Posted by ctr on 1 Oct, 2020

Been eagerly praying for my postcards to arrive so that I will have postcards to send out today, and I managed to! Small things like this make me so happy. Happy World Postcard Day! 🥳

Posted by whitefroststreetboi on 1 Oct, 2020

Congratulations to everyone! In September, my postcards were received by 16 recipients, which is my personal record for 9 years in postcrossing.

Posted by ALFAVIT on 1 Oct, 2020

I've sent a few postcards through Postcrossing today and I'm also now listening to the Virtual Stampex presentation. Happy World Postcard Day to everyone! :)

Posted by jjmedusa on 1 Oct, 2020

I sent a few postcard today! Happy World Postcard Day!

Posted by Seijafi on 1 Oct, 2020

I've sent postcards today as well as my pupils, they were excited at that idea. We made a photo but I'm not sure I'll be able to publish it. I'll try.

Posted by Solea on 1 Oct, 2020

I sent 3 officials and some to friends and relatives and I got 11 officials today.

Posted by RalfH on 1 Oct, 2020

@mimi2007 I had to write another 42 cards to fill my slots - my poor hand!

Posted by RalfH on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day!

Posted by ayusugiyono on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day, my Postcrossing friends! I just mailed 27 postcards (and two penpal letters). My postman laughed and said he'd never seen so many letters going out from one address. I hope everyone has a reason to smile on this special day!

Posted by sarahcprice on 1 Oct, 2020

On this first World Postcard Day I received 10 Postcrossing cards, great! And I will write 6 Postcrossing cards now on this special day - I can't write more right now. So I will have a nice evening with writing cards.

Posted by DorotheeB on 1 Oct, 2020

Ana and Paulo, it was nice to "meet" you virtually at today's StampX event. 🙂😊
Thank you again for creating Postcrossing. As was discussed, the connection with others around the world is really the most important part, and finding a bit of joy in our mailboxes is quite special. This year has definitely emphasized this to a great degree.
Enjoy the rest of this wonderful day and remember
"Life is a journey, not a destination." 😉

Posted by cheller7 on 1 Oct, 2020

I just sent out six postcards! I haven't written in a while, and figured World Postcard Day would be a great time to start again! Feel free to reach out if you'd like to start a direct-swap!

Posted by emilee_PLL on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy world postcard day! I am so excited-- i plan to send 6!!

Posted by Gen24 on 1 Oct, 2020

To celebrate the day I decided to write to six spontaneous addresses from my address book.
POSTCROSSING is a great thing, and I am happy to be part of it!

Posted by chouxfleur55 on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy world Poatcard Day
When time and distance never be far away

Posted by atmaja on 1 Oct, 2020

I celebrated today by sending 22 postcards (several to Postcrossing members). It was lovely to take a moment thinking about my favorite people.

Posted by DAHance on 1 Oct, 2020

Sending out several postcards today! Thank you for the session at Stampex. Thoroughly enjoyed it!

Posted by Knerq on 1 Oct, 2020

So excited! :D Happy World Postcard day to all!

Posted by amys2025 on 1 Oct, 2020

Всех с праздником открытки ❤️

Posted by Vadallamour on 1 Oct, 2020

Writing a few from Alabama!! Congrats on getting World Postcard Day up and running. I truly am very happy for you both.

Posted by Blogger on 1 Oct, 2020

Thanks for including that news in the monthly mail with statistics too. I was waiting for today for a while now to reactivate my account but when today finally came I almost forgot about it! :'D

Posted by Genevril on 1 Oct, 2020

I send 10 cards today. I am so happy for participating in this event.

Posted by Baumstark on 1 Oct, 2020

Posted 35 World PostCard Day cards today...thank you for all you do to encourage REAL communication through the post. I love the images people send; the handwriting, the stamps and of course the messages from around the world. Cheers. Zoe

Posted by ZoeFitzB on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day everyone! Sent out a few today.

Posted by bettyjaime on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy world postcard day fellow postcrossers!

Posted by Hechizera on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day everyone! 🎉🎊
I saved some extra slots for today and wrote a bunch of cards. 😊 So glad to be part of this wonderful community. 💛 Greetings from Nuremberg!

Posted by Cassisia on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy world postcard day! I just finished 13 official Postcrossing cards and some to family and friends. I also sent one to Washington DC to encourage the creation of a Postcrossing stamp.

Posted by WiscoFamily on 1 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day!
I collected all the postcards that I received over the years from relatives and friends)).
On the eve Of the holiday, I showed my relatives photos of their best postcards via the Internet. I encouraged them to remember the good times when they wrote these cards. Today I sent postcards to my relatives, friends, and Postcrossing members)). I really want to get back surprises from my family! I want to attract them to the Postcrossing ranks!
I am happy to be with YOU!

Posted by Jaroslavna13 on 1 Oct, 2020

I sent out 35 postcards today!

Posted by lorilei61 on 1 Oct, 2020

Today was a perfect Postcrossing day for me! I sent 13 cards to family and friends to tell them about World Postcard Day and to let them know how much I appreciate having them in my life. Also sent one to a Postcrossing member. Then I watched the Stampex talk about Postcrossing and as a new member I found the history of the organization interesting and hearing about the positive impact postcards have had. Enjoyed seeing everyone's favourite postcards also. Later in the day I found a card in my mail from a Postcrossing member. As I said, a perfect day!

Posted by wendyquilter on 1 Oct, 2020

I mailed out a few "custom" cards yesterday, and a few more will hit the mail tomorrow... so the postmarks won't be 10/1/20 which is my fault for not planning better!

Posted by Nells250 on 2 Oct, 2020

Sent cards to Taiwan, Pennsylvania-USA, Germany and 2 cards to Russia! Happy World Postcard Day!

Posted by MrsForrest on 2 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day! I sent out 5 postcards (1 to my dad who is in a nursing home and 4 to Postcrossing members). I am so excited because one of my postcards is going to a class!

Posted by CyndyK on 2 Oct, 2020

Happy World Postcard Day!

Posted by Eleveli on 2 Oct, 2020

I sent 8 cards: 2 with Postcrossing and the rest to family, friends and the Primary school where I used to teach!

Posted by jmarine on 2 Oct, 2020

5 received 📬, 4 sent 💌, such fun 🥳!

Posted by Lies76 on 2 Oct, 2020

Will you be able to say how many cards were send through Postcrossing on World Postcard Day?

Posted by mrvnrdll on 2 Oct, 2020

I drew 3 ID numbers to send postcards.
Happy World Postcard Day!

Posted by mana555 on 2 Oct, 2020

Got 5 postcards today! What a fiest!
Good day to all of postcrossers out there! Have a good day, stay happy and healthy, and enjoy your weekend!

Posted by chasingkites on 2 Oct, 2020

I "saved up" my sends for a few days so I could request more addresses yesterday. I ended up getting to write 10 cards through Postcrossing! It was awesome. I send a mixture of Moo.com printed World Postcard Day cards and special cards from my collection.

Posted by adriennefriend on 2 Oct, 2020

Started off world postcard day by donating to the fabulous project that is post crossing. Then requested a number of addresses I’d saved especially for 1st October. I only have one world postcard day card left which I plan to post to family in Japan!

Posted by AKFSPNFam1990 on 2 Oct, 2020

lovely

Posted by Talal90Ahmed on 3 Oct, 2020

I sent out a lot of Postcards on World Postcard Day. Cheers to every postcrossers.

Posted by foysalratul on 3 Oct, 2020

Hi everyone, I know I'm late to say; HAPPY POSTCARD DAY but I have send around 45 cards by myself, to friends an people how I know. At work every senior wrote a least one or two cards, total 82. I did send 4 official trough Postcrossing. So I did my best and I love every second off it. Can't wait for next year...

Posted by Flippie on 3 Oct, 2020

Я подписала и отправила несколько открыток, но, к сожалению, ни одной не получила в счастливый день :-( Но ведь это не страшно? Надеюсь в следующем году и мой почтовый ящик сможет меня порадовать.

Posted by April_ka on 3 Oct, 2020

Hello.
I contacted you guys about a month ago with the idea / suggestion to translate the lesson plan to my mother tongue, but nobody found it interesting enough to even respond and either accept or decline my offer. What a disappointment.

Posted by baka_strumpf on 4 Oct, 2020