Is everyone ready for the postcardiest day of the year? We hope so, because it’s only one week until World Postcard Day is heeeeeere! This will be the sixth year we organize the festivities to celebrate the best means of communication ever, and we can’t wait for an avalanche of postcards to flood the world’s mailboxes with smiles!
We have a long list of topics to go over, so this time I’m going to switch things up and turn them into a literal list. Here we go!
- First things first: make sure you have enough postcards and stamps on hand! You wouldn’t want to run out on this day, right? 😅
- Like in previous years, each postcrosser can send up to 10 postcards on October 1st so that we don’t run out of addresses on the website. If this is your first time celebrating the day with us, please read this to understand how things works.
- There’s something new this year: the postcards that count for the WPD badge will have a little star ⭐️ next to their Postcard ID on the Traveling Postcards page.
- But don’t stop at Postcrossing postcards: send some extras too! This is the perfect day to write to friends & family (near and far!), inspiring teachers, kind librarians, neighbors, co-workers or even the residents of a local nursing home. Reach out of your bubble and use the day to put smiles out there in the world.
- If you’re in Germany, Portugal, the UK or the USA, there are special postmarks you can use on your postcards too!
- Sooooo many meetups are taking place these days — check out all the stars on the map! It’s the perfect time to meet postcard friends (or make new ones) and celebrate together. And if you’re a geocacher, don’t forget: attending an event next week will earn you the World Postcard Day souvenir on your Geocaching account!
- Make plans to join us on the Postcard Lounge for a bit! Grab some postcards and a drink, and reserve some time to join this cozy livestreamed get-together, where we quietly write postcards in each other’s companionable silence.
- The official menu for the day is “things that resemble postage stamps”: we recommend ravioli for the main course, and stamp-shaped cookies for dessert. 😋
- Share some pictures with the community, either on the forum or elsewhere on the web, with the hashtag #WorldPostcardDay! We love seeing how this day looks from other people’s perspective.
And that’s all for now! As shown by all the exclamation marks on this blog post, we’re pretty excited and can’t wait to celebrate World Postcard Day with all of you next week!
91 comments so far
Thank you for all the great information about World Postcard Day. When we are getting addresses for WPD, does October 1 start on local time or on Postcrossing time. For example, midnight in Portugal is 7 pm local time for me. If I request an address at 7:30 pm on September 30, does that count as October 1, or do I need to wait until 12:01 am (my time) on October 1 to request an address?
Thanks!
Yay! Thank you for the list. Now I will have no excuse not to be ready for the Postcardiest day of the year!!
postcards - ok
stamps - ok
pen - ok
I am ready for the WPD!
I send my world postcard Day cards out yesterday. Im New and didnt know about the special Day on postcrossing with the stars😅. I wanted them to be there on 1 october.
Ready, Steady, Go for the #WPD2025!
xoxo
:) :D
Wow wow wow，So happy！
I have 11 tokens saved up for WPD! I'm excited to decorate and send them then! 😊✨
Can’t wait for the annual Birmingham (UK) WPD meet up 🥰
Finally, I'll participate in this celebration, I've even got an alarm set in my calender and saved some postcard spots, I've organised myself into a frenzy🙃
Yeay!! 🩷🫶
Ready. 10 envelopes with at least 10 commemorative stamps on each.
CasSaintDenys - if it's *either* October 1 in UTC *or* your timezone, they count for the WPD badge. Quote from the FAQ's: "Eligible postcards have a little star ⭐️ next to the Postcard ID on the Traveling Postcards page. They are those which have been requested on October 1st in either your own timezone or in UTC (the timezone used by the Postcrossing site). This means that sometimes the date shown on the postcard page will look like September 30 or October 2 because of the UTC setting. Worry not — if it’s October 1st in your timezone, that postcard will still count for the badge!"
https://www.postcrossing.com/help/what-is-the-world-postcard-day-badge
WPD 2025!!
I love the star next to the ID. This is fantastic. I hope we can have this for the December event Postcards for a good cause, too. Thank you all so much for making this das special.
Hi
Hello,
Perhaps there is someone who lives in Braunschweig or the surrounding area and would like to meet up to celebrate Postcard Day in a café.
A virtual hug full of positive energy from the city of the lion🦁
Oh no, I have sent too many postcards today. Can I apply some extra slots for the World Postcard Day?
Cool!! I'm so excited! Can't wait to enjoy the WPD-menu.
And I'm very happy to read that the great Postcard Lounge is opening again. I enjoyed it so much. It was a lot of fun! 😍 😍
Yippee！！！
I am very much looking forward to that day! In the afternoon I will meet a Friend for two hours and in the evening I will happily join the postcrossing Lounge (I missed the first one). Thank you for organizing it again! 🤩
Soooo ready!!! :)
I'm looking forward to it.
Last year, I wrote only two postcards on WPD to India and China, and BOTH are expired and still travelling 😢
So this time I hope for a card to arrive quickly, and getting the WPD badge on my profile.
And because double is better, I saved four slots for it.
I am very ready for WPD 2025! Thank you so much for organizing such a fun day!
It will be my first time. I’m so ready for it!
Received 2 days ago this year design printed on postcards. Kept 10 slots on my account. It will be writing them during lunch time at the office. Counting days down! 🤩
Ready! Looking forward to World Postcard Day 2025.
What counts for WPD?
Addresses I request on 10/1 or the postcards I send on 10/1?
I plan to send recipes in envelopes to many friends on 10/1 also.
I’m so glad to be in the postcrossing community. Wish I could send one to ALL OF YOU🥰
This is my first WPD and I am very excited. Thank you for explaining how the 10 post cards on October 1st works!
♫ It's the most wonderful time of the year ♫
Very exciting!
If anyone has questions about the special WPD pictorial postmarks, please visit the “Pictorial Postmarks” thread in the “Mail, Stamps, and Postal Info” section of the Forum.
This is my first WPD and I am still a little confused.
Everyone can send 10 postcards on the 1st Oct so long as they have 10 available slots, is that correct or is it, everyone can send 10 on that day even if they have no available slots?
Sorry if I am confusing you.
@JillKS Everyone can send maximum 10 cards that day if they have a free slot. If all slots are taken (full) it is impossible to ask for a new address.
@JillKS, only those who have at least 10 slots, can send 10 cards on 1st Oct. Because you're a beginner and have sent 5 cards, you have 6 slots and also only 6 slots on 1st Oct.
Ha Ha - loved the cute comment - "make sure you have enough cards" - is more than I could write in 20 years enough?
I have 5 2025 World Postcard Day cards to send as well as 3 postcard related cards to send. I am ready to get them decorated so I can draw my names on the 1st!
I'm ready and a little nervous. It's a day that I live with joy. Long live the WPD!
I am very excited to participate! :)
Well, I am new to post crossing and already started sending 2025 world postcard day cards. I didn’t realize we should send them October 1. For the last month whenever I received an address, I sent a postcard and a 2025 postcard. Hope I wasn’t breaking any rules.
@MerlinM & @Regndroppar thank you so much. Now I understand.
I'm looking forward to another fun filled October 1st ... !!!
I love WPD <3
YES i am soo ready! Really looking forward to October 1st this Wednesday. 😁
Looking forward to joining the Postcard Lounge again 😍
I'm ready, baby!
Glory WPD !
I can't wait! Ik kan niet wachten!...Yeah....
I saw a few posts from schools who were participating in World Postcard Day. I can't find them. Are there any teachers who are needing postcards mailed to their classroom. I'd love to participate ♡
Julie1957
Thank you very much. I'm ready. I'll reserve a spot.😍
I'm in travel mode on that day and will send cards from Germany. Only sad that I still see 2 cards with a star on my travelling list, cards from WPD 2024....
Am new to the platform and exhausted my travelling card count just yesterday. Hope the earliest sent ones reach before 1st Oct, so that I get to send WPD card and earn the badge..
Just so you know, I'm new to Postcrossing and this is my first World Postcard Day.
I have up to ten postcards free that day, even though my limit would otherwise be full? Did I understand that correctly?
@StampPixie, no. The limit of 10 slots is for those postcrossers who can send at least 10 postcards. For example I have 30 free slots at the moment and of those 30 free slots I can use 10 on Oct 1. Because you are a newish member, your available slots depend on how many free slots you have now. If you have 4 free slots now, you have also 4 free slots on Oct. 1 unless some of your travelling cards are registered before Oct 1. Nobody gets any extra slots on Oct 1.
Hello Postcrosser friend :)
Thank you very much for all these interesting and helpful information here. Only a few days until this special one and I hope all of you´ll have a great WorldPostcardDay in 2025!
I have a star by a postcard I sent on WPD last year, the postcrosser hasn’t logged in almost a year and it’s about to disappear from my wall completely. I had no idea why it had a star next to it. I’m glad I read this blog!
Thank you for all the information!
Darn….I had just sent out all of my available cards and wish I’d saved one for WPD. I wish this notification had been sent sooner 😭 Maybe next year?
HURRAY it's My debut celebrating WPD this year. I am still a newbie. Fortunately I have 8 FREE SLOTS & 1 card is traveling. In case it gets registered by Oct 1st, I will get 1 more slot free. Let's see. I am looking forward to earn the WPD badge. I will also send a few Postcrossing Meetup Cards on WPD to my Forum Friends with whom I have swapped regularly in the past. Happy WPD to all in advance.
Ope, should've saved more slots!! Rookie mistake, haha. I will have 1 to send on WPD 2025, at least!
Hooray!!
This is gonna be my 3rd WPD out of 6 😀I am already excited to have some fun. I will send 5 postcards, hopefully next year more 😉
As we stay in the mountains now, I will be able to post them later in October. Sorry for the delay! :))
I wish everyone (especially newcomers) to enjoy this day ❤️
Unfortunately my cards seem to travel forever, ( even more than 30 days) so I won't have any slots left for October 1st. :-(
Hello Carlette,
I am waiting more than 40 days- 6 postcards to USA and more than 50 days- 2 postcards to Russia
Thank you for the information, I am looking forward to this year's WPD. :)
I am looking forward to send out some pretty postcards!! :)
My youngest grand daughter and I bought postcards that had a cute Hello! Thinking of You on the front, left them blank, stamped them, attached a note about WPD and left them in every Little Free Library in our town. There are 16 and we had a blast going to each one and swapping out books and leaving postcards for others to send! Can't wait to do it again next year :)
Go,Go,Go!
I am so sad that Canada post decided to go on strike days before this wonderful event..
Waiting for Oct 1 before I request for new addresses! Can't wait. Ready with my postcards. Happy World Postcard Day, everyone!
I can’t wait. I have a few postcards to send and I’m planning to send some of them that day. It’s my first special day like this on Postcrossing. 😊 I’m glad I returned to Postcrossing in July after 8 year. 💌 ✉️
I can't wait!!!!!!!
oh no, I didn't realise you should keep slots reserved for this special day. I always inmediatly refill my slots as soon as a card arrives. Ok, let's hope the mailman quickly delivers some cards and I can still join:)
If I have 1 free slot, but 12 postcards are traveled. How many postcard will I can sent 1 October?
How about cards in travel mode? Can I travel to the country where it's 1st oct. the earliest and then send cards from there?
@MaryAnatolevna you still have to leave 10 slots free for WPD cards. If you only have 1 slot free on 1st of october you'll only be able to send one.
I am ready and plan on visiting the Postcard Lounge this year. I do still have one card from last year still traveling.
I'm new here and didn't know about this and have used up my slots yesterday =(
Well I am accumulating slots for tomorrow and also addresses of friends who are not on Postcrossing. Except like last year I will be posing it only on the 3rd. Last year 1st was a Sunday and 2nd is Gandhi Jayanthi a national holiday. This year 1st is Ayudha Pooja a postal holiday and 2nd is of course Jayanthi.
I am looking forward to WPD and prepare some special cards for tomorrow!
Very excited to send postcards on WPD and win the badge😍, it is only less than four hours in China before October 1st, looking forward to my first WPD!
Non vedo l'ora che sia il primo Ottobre!!!!!! Sono prontissima!!! :)
Can't wait for tomorrow! I'm gonna send many postcards! 😄 ✉️ ❤️ When I come home from school tomorrow, I do my homework. After that, I write the postcards and I'm going for a run
30. Sept 2025
Wow am with postcrossing since July 2012
and have started the WPCD in 2020 :-D
Happy Postcrossing
Saw Mr little star! I had one send left as I made sure to save it for today! But I read that you can send up to 10 on postcard day (today my time) but I still can only send 5?
@OceanMoon your slot count is 5 because 5 is the maximum you can send. The rule of 10 cards applies only members who can send over 10 cards at the time. No one gets extra slots on WPD.
Ich war heute als postcrossender Geocacher auf einem Geocacher-Event. Morgen werden als geocachender Postcrosser Adressen angefordert, Postkarten geschrieben und auf Reise geschickt....Auch privat werden welche verschickt, bzw verschenkt.... Hach herrlich.... So ein toller Einklang in den gemütlichen Herbst! Love it!
Greetings from Italy. 💚🤍❤️
I am ready! 🥰
I made postcards just for world postcard day. I am sending them to our Meals on Wheels to accompany the meals tomorrow. I had them commercially printed so I have extras to send to friends and family who helped me select among the designs I created. I got an email today that said October 1 or the first Wednesday in October is random acts of poetry day, so this is a great coincidence for me as I am a poet. I will be sending little poems with some of the postcards.
Wie kann ich heute Postkarten verschicken? Mir stehen keine Adressen zur Verfügung. Dabei sollten doch heute welche freigeschaltet sein, am Weltpostkartentag. Wo finde ich die?
@Brieftaubenpost Because you have zero slots available, you can't send any:
https://www.postcrossing.com/help/how-many-postcards-can-i-send-on-world-postcard-day
🎉🎉🎉🎉
I have taken advantage of all 10 cards I was allowed, now waiting for some of them to arrive. 3 go to fellow Germans, so I hope I will get the badge from one of those.
Hello,
I sent 2 cards on WPD. I had them hand stamped and took pictures. I didn't realize that I had to get the addresses exactly on October 1st and then mail them on the same day. I got 2 addresses on the previous day. Do I still qualify for the WPD banner? one of my cards that was registered, I received a message from PC saying the account had been closed. The other card was registered yesterday.
Thank you,
Judi
This is the second year in a row that I've gotten my addresses on September 30th, so I could write and mail my postcards on October 1st. Oh well. At least I sent them off in celebration of WPD.
Hello everyone! I live in Germany and have sent many postcards to the station in Weiden to get the special postmark mentioned here. However, none of the postcards have reached their recipients yet, even though some of them were sent within Germany and should have arrived quickly. Is anyone else in the same situation? I hope my postcards haven’t been lost.
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