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What a way to start the year in style, with 70 million postcards in the hands of postcrossers all around the world! 🎉🎉🎉

It’s been almost two years since we last celebrated one of these milestones (10 million postcards ago), so if you do the math, this means we’re averaging about five million postcards per year here in Postcrossing… which is pretty impressive! Well done, everyone! Whether you’ve sent one single postcard or 10 thousand of them, you’ve contributed to this milestone too!

A pair of toy mail carriers stand in front of a pile of postcard books

Can you guess how far we’d get if we made a little path with these 70 million postcards, all put together side by side? It’s a line that stretches aaaaaaall the way from London to Sydney down under! Or from New York to Melbourne!

I guess what you really want to know is which postcard was the lucky one, and who guessed the correct time at which postcard 70 million was registered. So, without further ado…

Postcard number 70,000,000 (US-9001590) was sent by jmorris in the USA on 26 December 2022, and registered on 04 January 2023 23:36 (UTC) by BowieGirl, also in the USA!

Postcard of the Hollywood sign

The postcrosser with the best aim on our guessing game was henna168, whose bet was spot on! Keep an eye on your mailbox for your new box of 100 postcards, which will be on its way soon!

The other lucky postcrossers who came super close to the correct second were _Vika_, serenji14, Larch, LeviEng, sharkee and Mirunka! You will each receive a set of nice postcards as well. We hope you like it!

No matter where you are, or how many postcards you’ve sent, we hope you take a moment today to do a little dance and celebrate this nice milestone! This community is made of so many different people, and we’re thankful for each and every one of you. Your passion for happy mail and for connecting the world is the reason this project exists!

Ok, enough sappiness… let’s go brighten some mailboxes, and see if we can make it to 80,000,000 postcards before January 2025! 💪

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128 comments so far

bonek, Indonesia
Congrats for all the lucky people
Congrats for Postcrossing
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postboo, Norway
Congratulations!! 70 million is amazing!!
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ehpersonal38, United States of America
Congrats!
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Mosshumla, Sweden
70 millions! What an incredible amount! And all of us contributed to it. We are best, aren't we?
Congrats to all the winners!
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isabetta, Italy
Congrats to lucky sender, lucky receivers and lucky winners! And to all of us, too - what a great milestone!
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LeviEng, Ukraine
Congrats to everyone participating!
Postcrossing rocks!;)
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Lies76, Belgium
70,000,000!! Imagine if we put them all together... Congrats to the winners and to postcrossing!
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Flippie, Canada
Hiep Hiep Hoera for the winners.
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greenskull, Russia
It is a great luck to guess the moment of passing the millionth level.
Unfortunately, math is not enough :)
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Captain-Colin, United Kingdom
70 million postcards on postcrossing.com! I am so pleased for everyone who is a postcrosser.
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IndonesiaRaya, Indonesia
congrats to all lucky Postcrossers !
warmest wishes from Indonesia
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ceoramalho, Brazil
Congratulations for the winners and all Postcrosser community across the world!!!
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henna168, Taiwan
Wow! I can't believe it! I guessed the correct time! Hope all of you have a wonderful 2023. Happy Postcrossing~
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jm1122, United States of America
Amazing!!
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NZ_Chris, New Zealand
Congratulations!! 70 million postcards!! Congratulations also to the winners! My guess was 17 minutes too late, but close enough to make me happy 😁
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Angeladonna, Canada
Wow! That is amazing :) congratulations and keep on Postcrossing.
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shootingstar7, Puerto Rico
Congratulations 🎊!
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orange_memo, United States of America
Congratulations!! 70 million is an amazing milestone journey!!
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sharkee, Russia
wow, so cool! congratulations to all postcrossers, winners and me :) I've never won the lottery, and here I'm so lucky!
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user47, United States of America
Amazing! What a great global community we have here.
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gill603, Taiwan
Congratulations!! 70 million!!!!!
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sir-chris, United Arab Emirates
Congratulations 🎉 to the team and users at Postcrossing for making it possible.

Postally yours,
sir-chris.com
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lrsranch, United States of America
Why is Postcrossing mostly German? I have been getting nothing but postcards from Germay and address to send to from Germany. I am going to unsubscribe. I wanted to hear from people all over the world. What a disappointment.l
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gforp, Denmark
Congratulations ! We all rock, don’t we ?
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thudthwacker, United States of America
Huzzah!
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abqslp, United States of America
Thank you to all of the behind-the-scenes humans who make Postcrossing and this incredible milestone possible!
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Kristi-D, United States of America
So impressive! I just finished registering a pile of postcards--each one brought joy on this rainy southern California day. Thank you to the Postcrossing team and to all those who participate--we all are better off with Postcrossing in our lives!
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Postcardit4U, Australia
CONGRATULATIONS, that's an incredible achievement!
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postcardfromblore, India
Congratulations,! 🎉
I had so much fun in opening the contest page everyday to track the numbers! :)
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Kot12, Russia
Great!
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Ramya, United States of America
Congrats to all of the winners! I’m so glad Postcrossing exists to add fun to our lives and give us the opportunity to say hello across this big world… let’s keep on sending postcards!
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Elschwobo, Germany
Congratulations to all of us!
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sealed4ever, United States of America
Completely amazing and wonderful!
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chrisbonham11, United Kingdom
Congratulations to all!
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ChrisRe, Germany
Congrats!!!
It's amazing. I'm so happy and thankful to be a part of it. 📬💌💖
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Bodding, Italy
what a milestone for us postcrossers!
Thanks for this funny lottery!
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wilmavz, Netherlands
Congrats to everyone!
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EmmaGodfri, Russia
So amazing! I can't imagine how many postcards it is! Congrats 🎉 I really happy to be a part of this beautiful community! 😊
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reiselustig, Germany
Congratulations to the winners, to all of us and to the postcrossing team - 70 Million is an awesome number!!
And since I corrected my guess only once I am quite happy, that at least I hit the right day - just a few hours to early ;-)
So maybe the 80 Million comes around christmas 2024 :-) - let's go for it!
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marleenjose, Belgium
Super! Happy postcrossing to e everyone…. All the best from Belgium 😍
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Libara, Czech Republic
Hurray ! Congratulations! Thank you that Postcrossing exists !
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snailmailingnancy, New Zealand
Awesome!!!
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josephvm, India
Congratulations! 🎊
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binawong, Malaysia
70 million are amazing!! We did it and congratulations for the winner and the lucky person who got the 70 million "Id"🎉🎉🎊🎊💗💗💗 Happy New Year Everyone
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TwentyTwenty, Malaysia
Congratulations everyone! 🥳🥳🥳

Felt like it was just yesterday we reached the 60million milestone. 😊
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AnnJewel_Chyi, China
Congrats! So lucky~
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sienemien, Belgium
Congratulations to all postcrossers and to Ana and Paulo to give us such a wonderful instrument to send cards and make friends everywhere in the world! Thanks a lot!
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GingerJoy, Belarus
Congrats to the winners and all the members! Such a great milestone!
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betslets, United States of America
Congratulations on this wonderful achievement. . .I remember when we were going for 10 million and thought THAT was amazing. There is absolutely nothing Postcrossers cannot do. And to think this all started with a Lighthouse identified as PT-1. Bravo to all.
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Silvanus_Tauris, Ukraine
Hurray! Let us do eighty million!
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Rosario_Sannino, Italy
Congratulations from the deep of the heart for such incredible achieved goal! Hurray!
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runokuono, Finland
Congratulations ! This is incredible and amazing <3
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WriScri, United States of America
Congrats!
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Star-Mix-1982, United Kingdom
Amazing News - Well Done Postcrossers 🌎

Congrats to the winners!
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Toome2, Netherlands
Whow, congrats or as we say here: Hartelijke gefeliciteerd!
Thanks for Ana and Paolo too, with this great idea for connecting people.
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Ceres1849, United Kingdom
Huge achievement, congratulations Postcrossing, and to Ana and Paolo for the tremendous work you do.......
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AgnesPauline, Netherlands
Congratulations ,amazing.
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Anastasiya_Abarinova, Russia
Great! Congratulations! 70 million postcards is very cool!
🥰
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Geminiscp, Portugal
Congratulations, everyone!!! :)
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serenji14, Italy
70 million postcards!! And for few seconds I missed the right time!
Congratulations to everyone and thank you to the Postcrossing team!
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mysweetlife63, United States of America
Y'all work so hard & I am so proud to be part of Postcrossing!
Congratulations!!
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honeybee, Austria
Congratulations to all postcrossers and to the winners of course. :)
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anandamardeep, India
Congratulations!! We wish Postcrossing 100 million postcards!
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MerlinM, Germany
What an amazing number mile stone. Congratulations to all Postcrossers and to the Postcrossing Organizer Team! Without you it would not work!
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Iris_Khan, Russia
🤗💌💖Congratulations to the lucky ones!
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Luziaceleste, Brazil
What amazing community that brings more and more joy around the planet. Congrats to the creators and to the mates in crime!
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NetteNetti, Germany
Congratulations to the winners. It was fun to guess. I was only off by 2 hours and 4 minutes.
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Claudio52, Italy
Congratulations
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GypsyLena, United States of America
This was so fun to guess and watch the count down. Congratulations to the the winners!
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mounten, Italy
Congratulations to the winner. Keep on going for the next Million!!!
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paicontea, Germany
CELEBRATIONS FOR ALL OF US!!! Happy postcard year and a big thank you to you all!
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pemasagirls, France
Congratulations 🎉 !
Next objective : 80 millions ? 😇
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Anactf, Portugal
Congratulations to the winners and to all postcrossers.
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Pachaontas, Portugal
Congratulations to all! Especial to this website, that facility and organize all this for free!
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HM, Netherlands
Congratulations to all of us and the winners!!

I had a good evening. I like to watch the Whatshappeningnowbox on the homepage.
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Ukraine_win, Ukraine
Congratulations!
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Sandristica, Spain
Hurray!
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Exceeder, Germany
Awww, I guessed the day correctly but an earlier time :D I simply chose my birthday, it's so cool that it coincided with the 70 millionth postcard being registered!
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Cassisia, Germany
That's amazing. Congratulations! 🍾🥂
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Lendelka, Belarus
Postcrossing is world peace!
Let's drink to postcrossing!
Together we can do everything!
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JuliaJuanita, Poland
Yay!
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kr68, Germany
Congratulations! 70 million postcards - amazing!!! Glad to be part of this wonderful project. The guessing game was a lot of fun.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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frauvomhaff, Germany
That's so amazing!! Congratulations!!
( 70 million postcards, I can't believe it) Great!
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KnittingSusi, Germany
Congratulations.
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Cowgirl7, United States of America
Woohoo!
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curlierthanthou, United States of America
Congrats and happy new year!
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ZYC521, China
I also hope to receive postcards from all over the world. Come and exchange them with me!
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WanderingRenn, United States of America
Wow! What a milestone! So happy to be a part of this community.
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Tsadida, United States of America
Congrats to everyone!
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Ching6767, China
What a milestone! Happy postcrossing and happy new year for all of us!!🍀🥂
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thstreit, Switzerland
Congratulations 🎉 70 million is amazing!
But why waiting for 80 million & not celebrating 75 million? 😉
I think 75 ist a special number => so let‘s go for it next! 😁

… and what about 77,777,777 😂
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Yefrem, Poland
How nice it is to realize that you have invested your strength for this figure.
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MedusaLu, Taiwan
🎉Congratulations 🎉
Lucky guys!!!
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MailboxIngrid, Netherlands
This is amazing 🤩 Congratulations to everyone 🎉 Many thanks to the Postcrossing Team 💕
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Somaco, Germany
Happy being part of this
with about 400 cards so far!

Great adventure!

:)
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smeh, Ukraine
Oeeeeee! 👍👍👍🤗🙃❤️🔥🔥🔥
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Pacomole, France
Beyond the participation of each of us, it is a reflection of your work to make the Postcrossing site work. A special thank you to you, to us too and we will all be present to continue and keep this course.
The proof is that the postal administrations issue stamps on this theme of correspondence. In this particular world these postcards are the honey of our life.
Happy New Year and see you at the next score
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KimFlowers, United States of America
Yay! Happy New Year and to many more postcards to yet be sent!
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NellyMuc, Germany
Congratulations, 70 million is wonderful!
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Bublina007, Czech Republic
Super!!!!!
Happy New Year and congratulations to 70 millions!!!!!!
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casedinlight, United States of America
70 Million, plus all of the direct swaps, which I know that there are a ton of those as well, since I've done 30 of them so far.
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quichelady, Japan
Congratulations! 70 million is amazing!!
Special thanks to Postcrossing Team and mail carriers!
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DeeJade, United States of America
Wow! This is amazing! Congrats to the winner!
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Lider, Russia
Wow! Amazing!
Congratulations!!! 🤗
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Mirunka, Czech Republic
Thank you very much ❤️❤️❤️
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ethanyang, Taiwan
Congratulations~
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cerres, Estonia
Just WOW! Congratulations!!!
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ArtRoo, Finland
Oh wow, we guessed 23:42 😄 Congrats!
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ketrin_lu, Ukraine
Amazing! Congrats!
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beesknees, United States of America
70 million. unbelievable! Maybe USA post will take note and issue a stamp?.............................................
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fisherman, Ireland
Congratulations to both of you !
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supertramp78, Italy
Brave/i a tutte/i!
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STaiJB555, United States of America
Huzzah! How incredible!! I love being part of this movement.
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Herrrie, Germany
Herzlichen Glückwunsch an die Gewinner und an uns alle. Super
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JessieUy, Malaysia
Very impressive indeed to reach 70 million postcards!
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IsabellaG, Germany
Wow! Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
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ilovecoffe, Germany
Awesome! Congratulations to the winners 🤗
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rehrlanna, Austria
I am so happy,that I can be a part of this wonderful game.
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Vitaliy_Lis, Ukraine
Congratulations to all postcrossers! I wish you all peace and good!
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bel0919, Italy
wow! that's a big number, just to think to all people that have been in touch thanks to this portal :D
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Demmi, Romania
80,000,000 postcards before January 2025! 💪
Great resolution!
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MingLee, Taiwan
Amazing! Congrats! Postcrossing Everyone!
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Rost48, Russia
It's great that we've already sent 70 million postcards! We must try and do 10 more faster! Washes and for a year, one and a half to turn out!
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Waldo, United Kingdom
Because of my two year anniversary of which Postcrossing reminded me, I put this formal haiku on 5-7-5

Postcrossing tells me
All things have a beginning
Anniversary

Now wondering when the second 70 Million Anniversary will be.
Congratulations to all Postcrossers and to all postal services.
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premkudva, India
That was just too good to hear. Looking forward to the next million. Can't imagine in this time of not using regular mail so many people are using Postcrossing as a hobby and sending postcards across the world.
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neongreen, United States of America
Wooo wonderful. Greetings from Northern California
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einzigartig0611, Austria
Wunderbar, ich liebe es hier mit dabei sein zu können !!
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paimjessica, Brazil
Parabéns a todos envolvidos nesse ciclo bacana demais <3 é um ahonra fazer parte de uma porcentagem disso tudo.
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