Oh, happy day! 🎉 Unbelievable as it sounds, Postcrossing turns 17 today!
Thank you for coming along on this journey with us, lovingly “spamming” the world with brilliant postcards and friendly words, making sure everyone has something to look forward to when they open their mailboxes. That feeling of finding something there never gets old, does it?
We’re especially thankful for the kindness being shared beyond borders, for all the funny images and fun facts that make us laugh, for all the thought and care that is put onto these little pieces of mail… We believe this community truly makes the world a better place, postcard by postcard.
By the way, did you know that haikus have 17 syllables (arranged on a 5–7–5 pattern)? Seems like a good occasion to try one out, so here it goes:
Postcards in the mail
Seventeen years of magic
Friends around the world
Ahah… at least we tried! 😅
Please do join us in celebrating this special day, and grab a piece of cake while you write some postcards (or haikus)! We’ll be doing the same from our little office here in Portugal, thinking of you all over the world. 🥰
PS – We’re using this opportunity to tweak the blog, increase the font size and make things more readable overall. Let us know what you think!
401 comments so far
I am very happy to be a part of this nice community !
Harald
every day is fun
The world of postcross
おめでとう
毎日楽しい
ポスクロの世界
Celebrate with haiku!
Long live to this astonishing project and its beautiful community! 🌷🌎
And thanks for all 🎂🤗♥️
I've enjoyed it for a long time.
I really appreciate it.
Pieces of life and story
Celebrating friends
Happy 17th Birthday! You bring much joy to our mailboxes!
Paolo and Ana. Postcrossing is a very important for me and every Day a great Present.
Congrats!!!!!!🥰
Postcrossing has connected me to the world 🌏 ... for this I 😋 will always be thankful that Paulo & Ana devote themselves to this amazing project 🙏🏼
Všechno nějlepší k narozeninám.
(Everything best for your birthday)
I enjoy participating in Postcrossing so much. Thankyou for your vision!
Thank you Ana & Paolo for this project of peace & hope! Thank you to everyone who help them and support this project!
Unfortunately some governments got a problem with each other! It‘s all a game of money & power, missing trust & respect and big lies. It’s not the game people of the Postcrossing community would play or like to play. I‘m quite sure we all would have a good time together with good food & drinks and even better stories. Hope times will change (in a better way again)!
Make someone smile with a postcard!
Hopefully it shall contribute to making this a happy and peaceful world.
m*e*t
1 7 @@@ J*A*A*R @@@ P*O*S*T*C*R*O*S*S*I*N*G
(I have sent info about it to our local weekly paper;
I will send a copy of it to you when they choosed it to print) -
I am so glad to be part of it😍
Thank you for everything❤
just bills, just daily paper.
Now its full of joy! 😊
Happy birthday, dearest Postcrossing! 🎂🎁🎈I'm so glad that you exist. You bring me joy, knowledge, and new friends.
Thank you so much, Paulo and Ana! 😘
Alles Gute für die nächsten Jahren.
Love you 🖤
Postcrossing is fabulous
Love those confetti pop out whenever i open this web today 😍🥰
Long live Postcrossing.
B. Varsha
Author of - Deltiology by An Air Veteran’s Daughter
I decided to become a supporter as a 🎁 to your birthday❣
Postcrossing is an amazing community! Not only through official sending postcards, but also with participating in the Postcrossing Community by the Forum.
Thank you so much for creating Postcrossing in the first place, connecting people worldwide and taking such a good care of Postcrossing in general❣
Happy postcrossing day!
I am always grateful for this wonderful hobby which brings so many smiles in my life as well as in others!! Postcrossing makes the world smaller, brighter, more hopeful and colourful! So all my thanks go to you Paulo and Ana and your whole team!!
Postcrossing has become a part of my life and has bought so many friends across the globe and brings lots of smile to our lives
Thanks to Ana and Paulo for making this happen.
The bigger font is better.
Dünyamızdaki tüm postacardlarımız barış güvercinlerimiz olsun.
Postcrossingimizi seviyoruz.
💝🎁🥂☮🥰👏🏻👏🏾👏👏🏽💫🥳🎉🎊
Happy Birthday Postcrossing.
It's very close to being an adult.
May all our postcards in the world be our doves of peace.
We love our postcrossing.
Happy postcrossing from Ukraine!
It will be 6 years of postcrossing for our family the 21th of july.
Thanks for all !
Congratulations from Russia ♥
Happy postcrossing!
goede gezondheid en succes aan alle postcrossers :)
I'm sooo glad that I found you some years ago 😊😂
Rosario
Keep up the good work
Stay safe everyone
TravelOzbug. Perth Australia
Happy Birthday to everyone in the community.
Postcrossing is wonderful for all people in the wourld: it spends joy, fun and happiness in a time when it is really neaded. Thank you for creating postcrossing! Thank you all who are part of it. Let‘s make advertising for postcrossing and tell so many people about it as we can.
I think Paulo Magalhães should get the Nobel Peace Price!
With Love from Andrea
☮️💗🎁🎏🎉🎈🥂🌈☀️💐😍🍀👍😉🙋🏻♀️
Thank you for all the power which you put in this wonderful project to bring people together, to learn about other countries and to be part of a big worldwide family. Postcrossing is a possibility to create positive feelings and gives peace a chance.
Wish you all the best for the next years with much joy and a low level of frustration.
Warmest wishes from ever-sunny Malaysia <3
I showed my album to an old lady in a nursing home and told her some of the stories. She said: "That album is worth its weight in gold".
Happy anniversary!
Thanks for creating a platform that allows people to create lovely memories!
Great project to make people happy!
I will continue to enjoy Postcrossing as a "bridge" between me and the world.
Thank you!
I really appreciate all of the experience here.
And congratulations and thanks to the people who make it all possible!
Happy Birthday 🎈🎂🍰🍻🥂🌷 to Postcrossing and thanks to all involved in keeping this project going day in day out. Always know you are appreciated.
I am proud to have been a part of this community since almost 13 years and I will send more postcards in the future.
Here's to the next 17!!
and thank you for wonderful experiences, fun, pleasure ....and ....
thank you so much for this amazing project 💝💖
and I am proud being part of this community 🌼🌼🌼
Our group has sent a birthday card for you
Hope you like it
Sweet message to a stranger
Travelling the World.
Happy birthday, Postcrossing . Thanks for all the Joy you have given me!
Love in my mailbox
A stranger no longer strange
We need more of this.
You should be very very pleased with what you have achieved 🤩
Many, many years to come in good health and peace!!!
Happy Birthday! 🎂🎉🎊
Actually, it's my birthday and my son's birthday, too. And: My son has turned 17 - he's a postcrossing child. ;-)
《HAPPY BIRTHDAY 》
And Thank You for that wonderful gift to World.
Also thanks for amazing tool to have a joyful hobby.
Love the increased font size although it is a bit too big - and I often need to increase font size to read text on various sites.
17주년 축하합니다.
Postcards all over the world.
Thank you, POSTCROSSING!
I never knew I could make a haiku - this goes to prove that you never know what you can do unless you try... ;)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and here's to many more years of bringing joy and happiness to the world! POSTCROSSING ROCKS!
Postcrossing really gives a lot energy~
KEEP WORKING!
Thank you for doing this. Postcrossing has brought so much joy into my life. I get such a thrill when I come home from work and see a postcard.
Greetings from Slovenia. <3
I'm thankful for all your hard work & dedication year in & year out.
Postcrossing brings me much joy!
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your hard work.
By the way - love the new font size!
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I like the larger font !
Happy postcrossing...
So great that it has been 17 years now. Hope it keeps like this for many more years! 🍰 🎂🎊 🎉
And the Haiku idea was brilliant! haha ✉️📮❤️
Postcrossing est magnifique et rends vraiment le monde meilleur.
Joyeux anniversaire à toute l'équipe.
Chaleureuses salutations de la belle Alsace.
Many thanks to Ana and Paulo and the whole team.
Postcrossing is great!! 🤩
NOW I EAT A CAKE
DRINK A WELL-SMELL TEA
HAPPY SEVENTEEN
... okay, it could be improved, 😂😂😂 !
@Ana and Paulo: thanks so much for putting your idea into practice
17 years ago ! Congrats to Postcrossing and thanks to all who let it live forever
✍ -> 💷 -> 📫 = 😍😃
MamaFox, 14.7.2022
Has brought happy snail mail days
I'm hooked now for sure
Happy birthday to postcrossing !
From Belarus with love
Paper, pen, and stamps make a
bridge across the world!
By the way, love the bigger font here. Not bad if increased overall, ;)
happy birthday!!!! 🥂
This syllable year,
Seventeen ripens haiku
And adolescence.
Ron & Donna
Arizona USA
Being a member of this beautiful community I can see how simple and wonderful it is to spread joy to each other all over the world. 💝
Sometimes I think you should get an award for making international understanding and friendship possible in such an easy and fun way. 🏅
Thank you so much for 562 days of happiness for me now. 😊
Love how you tweak the blog and the new font size!
Postcrossing is a great hobby for me. It's changed my life!
Thank you so much. ♥♥
Cheers to another 17 years!
And thank you for this great project that makes the world truly a better place
A jeweled mystery card returns.
Lucky seventeen!
Happy Birthday, Postcrossing!
And thanks a lot for all joy it brings!
Never thought that this is true,
Fortunately YES.
Pictures flying in the winds
Bring joy to the world
Muito Obrigado, Paulo e Ana!
Duh, of course both =)
Happy 17th birthday to you and Happy Bastille Day, anyway !!!
I've been with you for two years and I continue to be many more years.
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂
🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇
Best wishes!
Here's to the next 17!
I'm so happy for your success.
Be proud of your achievement.
Congratulations!
good haikus.
Summer Breeze
Send to a foreign country
Air Mail
夏の風
異国へ送る
エアメール
Happy 17 Bday <3
Send big hug
everybody
greetings from Mexico
I am really happy to belong to this amazing community of lovely people.
La mai mult și la mai mare!
a card reaches someone else
the seventeen years
Congratulations and thank you for everything! I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Apart from the Happy Birthday greetings which I also send here, I was thinking an article about the early days when you started up would be most interesting....
How did the idea come about?
How did you get going?
How did you attract members to join?
An indication of how the numbers grew in the first years.
Any active members from 17 years ago still with you?
What were the problems you had to surmount?
Any funny stories?
Meanwhile, well done with all of your achievements - you have brought happiness and smiles to many thousands of people...and the world's postal services say 'thank you - their coffers have been swollen by squillions!'
All the best - keep up the great work,
Chris
🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂
♥️🎉 Happy Birthday Postcrossing! ♥️🎉
"Postcrossing" You changed my life. 🎶🎶
Friends from all over the world are close.
Thank you for many postcards from all over the world.
Thank you for introducing Haiku, it is Japanese culture.
Happy Postcrossing!
Happy Postcrossing
It always improves my day
Hugs to all of you.
It is so great to take postcards from all over the world and to have contact with so many people.
Thanks
Huge thanks to those who started and keep up this wonderful association.
Brings joy in a troubled world
Keep up the good work!
*THANK YOU POSTCROSSING, HIEP HIEP HOERA FOR 17 YEARS*
Up to the 18...I can't wait.
PS I love the new front.
Ben net lid geworden dit jaar en ben nu al helemaal fan van Postcross.
Succes voor de volgende periode.
Elco
I glad to be a part of this huge family that's connected through small beautiful cards.
💐🤗
Happy Birthday, dear Pistcrossing! Have a great future!
Waiting for the mail
How simple life can become
When you are in love
- "PT 1" -
hurray postcrossing - (5)
paulo sent post to ana (7)
and became friends (5)
yep, the cake with raisins
was delicious haha :-)
congrats & thank you !!!
"dutchgranny" / gonny -
Happy Birthday and thank you for being you
Annegret
Auf ein Jahr, in dem es nichts als Postkarten regnet!
Happy Birthday!
Here's to many more years ahead. ;-)
Building bridges ‘round our world.
Thank you very much!
With you since 2016)))
Success and prosperity!!!
May you continue putting smiles on peoples faces around the globe one postcard at a time for many, many more years to come!
As the sun rises and shines
I am still too hot
A little haiku for summer :}
Happy Birthday to Postcrossing and thank you !
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