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. So even if the date on the postcard says 30 September or 2 October — if it has a star, it counts!
- 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 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!
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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.
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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!
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