Oh, happy day — today is the day lucky postcard number 80 million has been received! Woohoo!
Whether you’ve sent just one postcard or many thousands of them, you’ve played a part in this achievement. Bravo, everyone! 👏 Also, we’re celebrating this milestone almost exactly 2 years after the last big milestone (70 million), so it looks like our trajectory is still very stable, with an average of 5 million postcards per year. Which is just brilliant!
80 million postcards is a lot of postcards though, and my mind is not quite able to visualize that many postcards… but this is where math comes in! Calculating the area of all these postcards, we know that they would be enough to carpet the Vatican with postcards two times and a half, or the area of the Forbidden City in Beijing over 1.5 times! Also, assuming each postcard weighs about 5 grams (0.17 ounces), all these postcards would weigh as much as 67 fully grown African elephants! 🐘
Now, we know what you’re really curious about: which postcard was the lucky 80 millionth, and who got the closest guess in our celebration contest? Without further ado…
Postcard number 80,000,000 was NL-5891077, sent by turtle_lover in the Netherlands on 23 December 2024 and registered on 07 January 2025 at 02:32:25 UTC by Flicki, in Germany!
And the sharpest guesser in our milestone contest? That honor goes to jennyfleur! You will receive a bonanza of papersisters prizes, including postcards, rolls of tape, stickers, a rubberstamp and more. But that’s not all! Runners-up dessie82, Emicho, Viiliaaa, Yunling, dhe and xxxxyyyyzzzz were just minutes off the mark and will also receive sets of lovely postcards and stickers to celebrate as well. Enjoy all these gifts, generously offered by papersisters!
No matter how many postcards you’ve sent or how long you’ve been a postcrosser, we hope you’ll take a moment to celebrate this milestone with us. Do a little happy dance, send an extra postcard, or share some Postcrossing joy with friends! This community thrives because of you — your love of connecting, sharing stories, and spreading a bit of kindness to mailboxes everywhere. 💌
And now, a brand new year unfolds ahead of us, with plenty of postcards waiting to be written. Let’s brighten mailboxes worldwide and come back to celebrate 90 million postcards in a couple of years!
138 comments so far
Congratulations everyone!
Happy 80 million!!
Woohooo!!! What an achievement ๐
How exciting for Postcrossers everywhere!
Congratulations! I guessed the day right, but I was off by many hours. Now when will we hit 90 million....? ;-)
congrats ๐
I bet today too, but different hour ๐
Congratulations! I knew my guess was close when there were like 3 hours worth of bets I couldn't select ๐คฃ Happy 80 million and Happy Postcrossing everyone!
Congratulations to all the postcrossers out there for building such a wonderful community!
Congratulations ๐๐๐
Congrats!! I have sent you a Turtle card in the past... so in a way it's cool to know I have interacted with the person who sent the 80 Millionth card! ๐
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
80,000,000...........wow....more millions to come.
Cheers.....
That was really exciting and congratulations to the winners! ๐ฅณ
Thanks also to greenskull for the constant new calculations! On to the 90 millionth postcard.
๐Congratulations!๐
Congratulations! ๐
Congratulations!
Amazing!
Congratulations.. Happy moment for postcrossing
What an incredible achievement of communication!! Iโm happy for it
Congratulation!
happy 80 millionth postcard and happy postcrossing everyone!
Congrats everyone. Since I am new, really looking forward to contributing to the next milestone.
Congratulations!!! What a milestone!!
Very well done! I hope this goes on!
Yay 80 Million!! Congratulations, friends!!
Congratulations to all postcrossers.
Congratulations๏ผ๏ผSo awesome amount๏ผ
Congratulations ๐
Although I haven't received it yet, one of the eight million cards is my foundation!
Super โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
Congratulations to all of us!
Hurray!
Congratulations. Lovely card.
Congratulations everyone!! ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ
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Super!
Brillant, well done, congratulations and keep up the good work!
Yeah! Amazing ! Looking forward to the next million, it's so much fun!
Congratulations
Congratulations to all and best of luck for 2025!
Wow!! ๐คฉ Congratulations, enjoy the prizes - they sound wonderful!!! Happy Postcrossing everyone!! โจ
Congratulations to all the winners! :) not me this time, but I was honored to be among the winners years ago so I imagine a nice feeling โค๏ธ๐๐let's go to 90,000,000 together!!!๐
Happy 80 million! Congratulations!!!
Congratulations to all Postcrossers around the world well done.
Very cool!
Congratulations to every one ๐
congrats! oh I was so close with 2:37 :O
Congrats.... now let's go onwards to reach the next million(s).
Congrats to the winners and thanks to the staff of Postcrossing who made that possible! So I think our next aim should be the 88,888,888.
Congratulations! Rotterdam is my home town although I live abroad. I love the card and Iโm glad itโs won!
Congratulations also to Postcrossing as 80 million is quite a milestone!
80million?? Feels like it was just yesterday when we all celebrated the 60th million postcards sent. Phew! =D
Waaaaaahoooooooooo - That is so amazing! :-) Congratulations to all Postcrosser and of course to our wonderful creating and helping teams!
Wow -- as I now share "Happy 80 Million Day" with all Postcrossers (January 7, 2024 - at 2 am Central Time in USA) I am among those that was able to at least place a bet (albeit my 3rd try) for today. I have also been among those sharing excitement from "10 Million Day". . .every postcard sent or received is always a milestone for Postcrossing (especially when it is registered) and we are already on our way to 90 Million. For today - CELEBRATE!
Congratulations! I am proud of belonging to this community.
Congratulations, Postcrossing and all the postcrossers the world over!!!
I had the day right, but the time a bit off...I think it is even more special to be the ONE to mark the 80 million! Regardless of being the sender or the receiver. I like the postcard a lot - I would love a postcard like that from my city, Haarlem! ๐
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Congratulations to the sender and recipient
of the wonderful postcard and to the award
winners on a beautiful milestone; like everyone else who participates in this beautiful project.
What a milestone! Congratulations! Such a lovely project!
great!! What a milestone!!!
my tip was only 3 hrs apart.... :) Congratulations to the winners :)
Congrats!
Hurray!!! Congratulations to everyone!!!โค
Wow, 80 millions postcards. It's hard to believe! We Postcrossers really keep the postal service alive. ๐ Congratulations! ๐ฅณ๐๐
Very exciting!
Wow! My brain just won't compute that many cards!
Yaaay! Congratulations to all of us! <3
Let's keep spreading kindness and postcards!
Congratulations! ๐๐
Oh so today is the day! Congratulations to the sender and receiver of this special card and to all the winners of the guessing game! We are happy as papersisters that we could sponsor the game. So nice to see that communication via postacrds is still very much alive!
Congratulations!!!
Amazing! Right on my BIRTHDAY. It feels like a present.
I thought that the 80,000,000th postcard would be sent on ~December 25th, but it turned out that it wasn't.
Magnificent,and let s send more postcards!!!!๐
A magical website that has brought kindness, emotion, surprise, love, companionship, and fun to me and my family. Thank you for always being there.
Congratulations!
This is absolutely incredible! Congratulations to everyone! 80 million postcards is just amazing!!! :)
Yuppie! Time for celebrations everywhere.
Woohoo! Congrats to PostCrossing for making the world a better place, one postcard at a time!
Yay! Congratulations! I love all of the statistics. I am such a nerd!
Congratulations!
Yes, congratulations! I also thank Postcrossing for providing this opportunity. Hat's off to Postcrossing!
Congratulations, 80,000,000 postcards is certainly a milestone. Glad that with my modest contribution (0.00175%) I was able to add my postcards.
I love this! I just joined in August, and I'm so impressed with the spirit of community here. I'm looking forward to staying here long enough to see one million! :D
I never care to count down to a new year at midnight, but I was thrilled to be online just in time to catch the 80m milestone when it happened! Huzzah Postcrossing!!
Congratulations to all!!
The Forbidden City,a unit of measurement that is very familiar to Chinese people.๐๐๐
Congratulations to all๐๐โจ๏ธ๐๐ผ
Congratulations! As the 40 million sender I hope to see the 120 million postcard soon!
This is such a fun milestone! Wow! Congratulations on this awesome achievement! ๐
wonderful, congratulations
Very cool! I love being a part of this community!
Congratulations to all and what a massive achievement! Blessings to all ๐
Amazing so happy :)
Congratulations!!! Thank you very much for your work and may you continue for many more years!!! Congratulations to the winners and all the postcrossers!!! Happy 80 million!!
INCREDIBLE!!! Love you, Postcrossing!
80 MILLON POSTCARDS! AWESOME!
And l can be part of this community. Thanks!
When l ask friends and relatives how many cards they have sent for various occasions over the last few years, the answer l often get is "l haven't done that in a long time."!
I say to all of you : T H A N K Y O U ๐โ
And : Keep it Up!
With this in mind: Have a good 2025 โโโ
Congratulations to all Postcrossers!
Yay!! I was very off in guessing but it was a lot of fun to participate in the guessing game. Let's keep it up with postcarding!
Very impressive and such a great endeavor!
Congratulations to the winners!
Looking forward to the next fun contest :)
Amazing! I love this hobby. I found it on tik tok and Iโve been hooked ever since. Been a little over a year since I joined already up over 300 sent. I will forever do this. I love it.
Congratulations for the milestone to all of us! I am still happy belonging to this fantastic Community - now for 10 years already.
And my last guess in the game was only 5 minutes apart ๐
WOOHOO!Congratulations!
Wow, that's just amazing! Congrats to the lucky winners.
congratulations!
67 Full gown African Elephants. Methinks we also need to take a moment to thank all of postal carriers on whose backs these cards have travelled!
I am always in awe of how I can hand a small piece of cardboard to a postal clerk in a postoffice here in Maryland and a few days or weeks later in can then be in the hands of almost anyone anywhere. 80 Million small miracles!
Let us also not forget the expired cards, the ones that have lost their way. It would be nice to know how many of those there have been , so we could have a metric for our success rate.
Congrats to all of us, what a mountain of smiles and connections!
My life is seriously richer because of all the people that have been brought into my life through postcrossing!
Congratulations to the winners!
Super Cool...congrats to all!!!!
Congratulations to everyone!๐This is a very pleasant number, because 80 million times people have been pleased by someone's postcard!!! :)
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Have you ever thought about how many stamps were used??,,wonderfull stamps in postcards is great!!!Ricardo.
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Great! Amazing news for the sender and receiver and good luck to all the winners. Lets spread the joy!
Fabulous!!!
Sveikinimai !!! 80 milijonasis - oho!
Incredible! Congratulations to the PC team, the contest winners, and thanks to all who participated to achieve this number! I really appreciate everyoneโs commitment to Postcrossing, upholding the wonders of snail mail, sharing joy and connection. Happy 2025!
It's really incredible. Congratulations to Ana and Paolo and their team, they brought and bring us so much joy. Happy 2025 to all of you!
Happy 80 million - postcards = 67x๐
Happy 2025 to all of you!
xoxox
Happy 80 million postcards!!!
So happy it's from Rotterdam!!!!
Congratulations to all!
Wow! Congratulations!๐ฅณ
Congratulation everyone!!!!!โจ๐โจ๐ It's wonderful!!
Wow! So much Happy mail ๐๐ฌ
Congratulations to everyone (and of course the winners ๐). I am so happy to be part of this wonderful community who spreads kindness and smiles every day!! ๐
Aww, dammit, I bet on next week!
Congrats on 80 million! And congrats to the winners! :)
Congrats everyone involved in Postcrossing! ๐ 80 million is a huge number! Keep it up! ๐ฎ
I love this, and it makes me happy with all thats going on in the world. Congrats and happy 2022! 80M is amazing!
Congratulations! What a great way to bring in the new year. Postcrossing is such a joy.
Yeah 67 elephants!!! ๐ ๐คฉ
What a gift to the world you created with Postcrossing!
80 Million Thank Yous!
Congrats Jolien!๐ฅณ๐
80 million postcards great achievement for new and old postcrossing members
Hoera voor Nederland!
Hooray for The Netherlands, I'm proud.
Wow, what a milestone. And so cool it came from the Netherlands!
Wow - and just today I've got my 10000th postcard. Absolutly wonderful !!!
Congratulations!
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Hooray!!!! ๐๐๐๐
Congratulations to all of us. I love this community of postcrossing recipients. It always makes me smile when mail arrives and I have another postcard to register. I have a few pen pals through postcrossing as well.
Today is the day to live with all of your might, accepting each new beginning as a new joy waiting to be experienced.
Namaste ๐ Gail
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great news!
congratulation to all postcrosssing people: we really make this world better! it is also interesting that in our country (the Republic of Moldova)
we celebrate Christmas exactly on the 7th of January.
hugs from Arttatito Studio!
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