Oooooof… World Postcard Day was such a rush! Everywhere we looked, people were posting and tweeting about their postal adventures, showing the pretty cards they were mailing, or giving the world a peak into their happy mailboxes. So many things happened that it took us a while to recover from all the excitement… but here we are now to tell you all about it!
First things first: remember the Stampex Talk we mentioned? It went brilliantly! We had a nice time chatting with Isobel Klempka from Stampex, postcrosser & philatelist Constanze, ABPS chairman Graham Winters, actor and postcrosser Sam West… as well as quite a few of you, who jumped in at the end to show your treasures! We oooh’d and aaah’d at all your stories and special postcards, and had a really good time. If you weren’t at the event, you can enjoy a recording of it below:
A lot more talks about stamps and collecting happened at Stampex between 1–3 October, and you can see an archive of those on the Auditorium of the event.
Meanwhile, lots of museums geared up to participate on World Postcard Day! Some showcased the postcards on their collections on social media, others helped spread the word, a few organized workshops or school actions. With the help of the Singapore Philatelic Museum, students in 40 primary schools throughout the country wrote messages of love and appreciation on postcards, to their friends, family and healthcare professionals. For many, this was the first time writing postcards!

Simultaneously in Croatia, Hrvatska Pošta helped 17,000 students in 500 primary schools throughout the country learn more about mail and postcards with the help of an educational video featuring their mascot, Marko Markica. The students were offered postcards, which they wrote during the class.

And still on the topic of schools, we lost count of the number of times the lesson plan was downloaded! Postcrosser Dovilė (aka VaDovi) challenged her former primary school teacher to participate in the event, which she promptly accepted. They used the lesson plan, postcards were printed, more classes joined and when the day came, 150 students at the Mažeikių Kalnėnų Progimnazija participated in the event, learning about mail, how and what to write on a postcard, where to stick the stamps, etc. Hurray!

Frank Roche (aka Postcardist) put together a special episode of his Postcardist podcast, where we hear about people’s plans for World Postcard Day all around the world. A few postcrossers chimed in to share their plans, and we especially enjoyed hearing about BonnieJeanne’s (aka postmuse) plans to make ravioli for dinner, because they’re often shaped like postage stamps — what a neat idea to celebrate a postal-themed day!
And last but not least, some of you have already started to receive your World Postcard Day badges on your profiles, as the postcards you sent on October 1st slowly arrive to their destinations. A grand total of 45453 postcards were sent on Postcrossing that day — one of the best days ever in the project!
By the time October 1st came to an end, we were overwhelmed with joy and gratitude for all the enthusiasm with which the Postcrossing community embraced the launch of the World Postcard Day. Thank you for spreading the word, sending postcards and helping put this day on the calendar! 💙 It was such a lovely highlight in this gloomy year.
We’re already buzzing with ideas for 2021… but we would love to hear your thoughts too! Got any cool suggestions or plans for next year’s World Postcard Day? Let us know in the comments!
38 comments so far
I don't have an idea how much we send on a 'normal' day. You can see it for the last hour but I never follow it 24h/day... Can somebody tell us what the numbers are during the week and in the weekend?
For next year on World Postcard Day I hope we can have meetings IRL again because that's so much more fun + it means that the corona pandemic is better/over/under controle.
Second thing : that our postal system also will have a special cancellation but I guess that stays a dream just like a Postcrossing stamp...
Appreciate for this year event
I just finished watching the video. What a great time I had. I was able to see Ana and Pablo in person. Also, saw my long time meetup postcard trading pal, Michele Bondesan. Nice to see what you look like. :)
It was wonderful to see all those showing their favorite postcards.
May you mailbox be filled with postcards.
Enjoy the day and stay safe,
Demaris
Texas, USA
I couldn't send a single postcard out since 1 August 2020. So I send them back to my own address. Planning to get 1 October postmark but when the cards returned, they received 5 October postmark. Oh well! It's a nice tried! :)
Hopefully the postal service will resume back in service before next year celebration! XD XD XD
See you guys around! Postcrossing is beautiful! :D
Now I'll go and watch the Stampex Talk.
Amazing, congratulations to everyone!
A good idea at the beginning and the whole planet is on fire.
For 2021 Postcrossing could land at the poles, at the extreme postal agencies (the highest (Nepal?), the lowest (submarine) etc.).
And if our French astronaut Thomas Pesquet became a Postcrossing ambassador for the International Space Station?
I sent more cards, than my usual, to celebrate the occasion, but avoided actually requesting addresses ON October 1 for fear of popping the Postcrossing site into a breakdown. (Is there ever a chance of overload?) Congratulations to all on an amazing success...am already looking forward to next year.
Thank you for sharing the video and others notes and keep going.....
I thought maybe it's nice to make the WPD badge on the profile another colour once you again in another year send a postcard on WPD.
For example first year send a postcard on oct 1st = red WPD badge, second year = green WPD badge, third year = yellow WPD badge etc. (replace the old one with the new colour, not that you have 3 badges) Then it's a real nice challenge to get that special colour badge on your profile.
Ok bye bye, Happy postcrossing!
Well done everyone.
for next year, another talk and live chats...it was fun
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