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Some of you might have seen a picture of PT-1, the very first postcard ever sent through Postcrossing — the one that started it all! It’s a blue-skied postcard featuring three majestic lighthouses, sent by Paulo to Ana (that’s me!). As you can imagine, it’s always been a special postcard for us, but the publisher that made them has long closed and so they haven’t been available for many years. We always wished they would come back though…

So, especially for Postcrossing’s 20th anniversary, we took matters into our own hands: we worked out the legal bits, tracked down the original photographer, licensed the photos, and made it happen! 💪

Front and back view of the PT-1 postcard featuring the 20th anniversary Postcrossing logo and blurb.

The front of the card is true to the original one, and the back is designed to celebrate this milestone. And to make it even more special, we added something new too: a sheet of fun cinderella stamps! These aren’t real postage stamps, but they’re great for decorating your postcards on this special year. They feature Postcrossing’s iconic red “P” and a yellow “20”, the anniversary we’re celebrating.

A bundle of lighthouse postcards wrapped with a strip of decorative P20 stamps.

Since it’s the 20th anniversary, each bundle has 20 postcards and a stampsheet with 20 decorative cinderella stamps, all wrapped up with a paper band.

 A few lighthouse postcards with two decorative P20 stamps and a pen. We did a small batch of these, and they have just been added to the Postcrossing shop — so if you’d like to grab one, now’s your chance! Purchases will be limited to one pack per person, and we might print a few more if there’s enough interest. These will all be shipped from Europe.

This is our first time making a physical product from beginning to end (working with printers and suppliers, looking at different papers, thinking about packaging, etc.), and we’re eager to put all this knowledge into new fun things in the future. We hope you like the special anniversary bundle, and that we’ll see a few of these postcards pop up on the postcard walls over the coming months!

Get your bundle here!

22 comments so far

HM, Netherlands

Fabulous!

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Orca_Kid, United Kingdom

Postcrossing stamps! Awesome!

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Seracker, Singapore

So exciting! Order placed! :D

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jjmedusa, United States of America

Wow! This is amazing! Congratulations on putting this all together! :)

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Indreni, United States of America

How beautiful and sweet!! Forever grateful for Postcrossing 💚

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Ozolinji, Latvia

Purchases will be limited to one pack per person or per order? I can make a new order with postcards bundle.

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Trans_Niqabi, United States of America

Love it.

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Mailbird2, United States of America

Cool!

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LeilaKewl, Philippines

Oh, wow! That is so great!
Congratulations again, and thank you for starting Postcrossing!

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Mindee, Finland

How wonderful!!! <3

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Sverige, Sweden

Wow!

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Guny, Switzerland

Done ✅

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mooonie, United States of America

How exciting! I love bringing back designs for anniversaries

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Demmi, Romania

Just Awesome!

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harrickson, United States of America

This is great! Nice work!

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jkbeitz, United States of America

Just placed my order! Can’t wait to send ‘em.

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dollart, Finland

Great chose for first card Paulo 20 years ago. Order made and chose also Tote bag to show off this amazing hobby. Happy anniversary!

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shanx, United States of America

I double love this! Can't wait for mine to arrive and to start seeing them on postcard walls. What a smart way to commemorate.

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AmyOctober, Russia

Aww the anniversary set looks amazing, you did a great job! I'd love to get that postcard ☺️

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flyingmomo, Germany

Awesome and I just placed my order🌝

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upsnana, United States of America

So awesome

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BeckyS, United States of America

I just placed my order. <3

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