It’s our birthday today! Hurraaaaaaaay!! 🎉🥳🎉
Postcrossing turns 21 today, and it feels both completely impossible and somehow true. Twenty-one years of postcards crossing oceans, borders, mountains, deserts and kitchen tables… one small handwritten message at a time.
Postcrossing started back in 2005 with what was just a little experiment: what if strangers around the world could send each other real postcards, and the internet could help make that happen? All these years later, that idea is still going, carried by all of you: the people choosing postcards, writing messages, licking stamps, walking to postboxes, and making someone’s mailbox a little happier. Multiply that by 87 million postcards, and suddenly this little experiment becomes something much bigger: a worldwide web of connections made out of paper, handwriting, stamps, and friendly surprises.
Thank you for being part of Postcrossing, whether you joined yesterday or have been here since 2005. Thank you for every postcard sent, every kind message written, every meetup organized, every mailbox checked with hope… and every bit of patience when the mail takes the scenic route. A special thank you as well to everyone who spread the word, hosted a meetup, helped out on the forum or helped us keep the lights on!
To celebrate today, we’re also bringing back the Postcard Lounge! If you’d like to write some postcards in the quiet company of other postcrossers head over to the Postcard Lounge page. Bring some postcards, your favorite pen, maybe a cup of tea or coffee, and come write with us for a little while!
Here’s to 21 years of postcard magic, and to all the postcards still waiting to be written, sent, traveled, received and smiled over. Thank you for making this community what it is! 💙
166 comments so far
Congratulations!
Happy birthday. 🥳
happy b-day! 🫶
Hurray! Happy birthday!
Thank you for all your work!
I am very happy to be a part of this postcard world ^^
Postcrossing 21 year?? Time flies. Happy birthday !!
Happy 21st birthday, Postcrossing!
Happy birthday, dear Postcrossing!!! :-)
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Ana and Paulo for creating Postcrossing!
Happy birthday!
🥳 Happy 21st birthday!!! 🥳
And thanks for creating this brilliant concept. 🙏🏼
See you in the lounge!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Postcrossing is a wonderful way to spread joy and to connect with beautiful people around the world. I am a very happy and grateful member of this club!
I wish everyone a beautiful Postcrossing day.
Love, Vera
Happy birthday, dear Postcrossing! 📨📮
Happy birthday! 🎈🥳
Happy Birthday, Postcrossing! Many congratulations to everyone who has ever been involved with this project, big or small, long-term or one-off. <3
Happy 21st Birthday, Postcrossing! 🎉
Thank you for connecting people across the world, one postcard at a time. Wishing you many more years of friendship, kindness, and happy mailboxes. Happy Postcrossing!Keeping the Tradition alive, is a Great way to build the Society healthy
Looking forward to joining people in the morning. Have a great night
Happy Birthday from Poland 🥳
happy happy birthday, postcrossing!
Happy birthday 🎂
Happy 21st Birthday, Postcrossing! 🎉
Thank you for connecting people across the world, one postcard at a time. Wishing you many more years of friendship, kindness, and happy mailboxes. Happy Postcrossing!
Happy 21st Birthday, Postcrossing! 🎂🥳
Thank you to the official team for your quiet dedication, and to all the members who participate. This truly is a place full of wonders and surprises! ✨🌍
🥰 Happy 21st Birthday 🎈
Wow, that's fantastic! Congrats and thanks for making it all possible!
Happy Birthday and thank you so much for what you are doing here for us postcard addicts, dear Ana and Paulo! So many nice moments and memories created and friends found thanks to Postcrossing ❤️
Happy Happy 🎂! (Is it also "Ravioli Day"?) I've been here for 17 of those years and wish us all many many more Postcrossing Years together. Enjoy! 🎉
Happy 21st 🎂 Birthday to Ana, Paulo, all the team and postcrossers all over the world 🌎 ❤️ because thanks to you this joy is possible!
August, 1, is my 16th postcrossing anniversary ❤️ so much happiness, thank you!
Happy 21st! Thank you for the wonderful idea and here's to many more!
Congratulations
Congratz to you ❤️I'm happy to be a postcrosser.
Happy 21st birthday!
🍰 Happy 21st Birthday, Postcrossing! ❤️
Happy Birthday. It's actually a big and proud milestones to every member in the community and everyone inside Postcrossing!
It's extremely hard to keep the community alive with all the ups and downs especially in the era when everyone is going digital.
Let's keep this licking stamps, writing by hand, and everything around it stay alive for a long long long time 💗💗💗
Who would have thought that sending and receiving a postcard to a stranger would be so gratifying for so many Postcrossers. This 'old fella' says "Happy Birthday" and thank you to the volunteers that keep us sailing along. Full steam ahead🅿️
Congratulations and celebrations
Congratulations 🎈 2️⃣1️⃣🎂🥳
Very best wishes to everyone today!! ❤️💙
21🎂🔥
Happy birthday! 🎁🎂
Happy 21 Birthday
14 July is a special day.
what a wonderful day, Happy Birthday, Postcrossing!
Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday and a HUGE thank you!
For anyone interested, I made a Postcard Lounge card that I’m trading for today. You can see it here in the forum:
https://community.postcrossing.com/t/offer-postcard-lounge-card-for-swap/1382012
Happy Birthday and a big thank you!!!
So happy to be part of this great community
I'm still so happy to have found this great project 14 years ago. Congrats and thank you for running this website :) Let's keep on spreading the joy of sending postcards!
Happy birthday, Postcrossing!
Thank you so much 🎉🥳
Wow! Warmest birthday wishes. By the way, it's my birthday today too. That's so cool! :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY！
Happy 21st birthday, Postcrossing!
Here is the perfect postcard playlist to celebrate https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ZOOug4KtmM0tcEMkKVbEa?si=GQ9jCT_3QmWb9jBSn9Ycpg
I can't even begin to see how thankful I am that I joined Postcrossing eighteen years ago. The friendships I've made are with the most incredible people across the planet. Thank you ever so much for creating one of the best things in my life. :)
Congratulations, I'm happy I'm part of this, 10 postcards with birthday wishes are going out today. ❤️📮
Congrats
Happiest 21st birthday to Postcrossing, and cheers for many more :-* Finally, after being a part of this amazing community, I can see beautiful places and meet people from around the world, one postcard at a time.
Happy birthday!
Thank you, Paulo and Ana!
Friendship, love, and peace to everyone.
Happy birthday! Thank you, Postcrossing, for all these wonderful moments.
❤️💐🎂🎆🎇
In some countries, 21 is old enough to buy … alcohol! Here’s to responsibly drinking while celebrating! 🥂🎉
Happy 21st Birthday Postcrossing!!!
Thank you for being a lovely part of my life! 🥰
🎈 ✨💌
Happy Birthday, Postcrossing!
🎂🎉 Happy Birthday! 🎉🎂
Happy 21st Anniversary!
Thanks a lot for the chance to join the Lounge today, write a couple of cards for the postcrossers from the USA and Cyprus and send them right away with today’s date.
Looking forward to meeting you and the community at the next one.
Happy Birthday Postcrossing! I am so thankful for this project and I send everyone best wishes! :)
Happy birthday, I'm glad there are still people who write postcards ❤️
Happy 21st birthday to Postcrossing! Amd thank you to everyone who makes it possible!
Happy birthday
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday!💌🎂🎈
Congratulations and Happy 21st Birthday!
Let's have a virtual 21-gun salute for the great team! Yay!!!
Happy birthday postcrossing. You make the world go ‘round.
Happy birthday!! I can't imagine life without postcrossing. It would be dull and boring!
Happy birthday 🎂♡
Happy Birthday! 💌 🎂 🥂
Happy birthday. Thank you very much for bringing us together!! :-)
Happy Birthday! Postcrossing is the best!
Amazing! Happy Birthday and thank you to all Postcrossers who make that project a wonderful place to connect and collect! <3 :)
Happy 21st! In the states you are now old enough to drink! So here is a toast to 21 more! 🥂
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Thanks for all your great work and looking forward to the next 21 years ;)
"Life without Postcrossing is possible,but pointless",
(quote loosely based on LORIOT,a German humorist).
Happy to be part of this community !!!
Happy birthday! Thank you very much for the amazing and inspiring community! Happy to be part of it. Thank you 💚
Happy Birthday, Postcrossing! Ever Growing, Never Aging!
A Huge Happy 21st Birthday. Thank you so much for the wonderful joy you help us send and recieve. Looking forward to many more happy years.
Happy 21st Birthday! 📮📬💌
Happy Birthday!
And keep on Postcrossing!
Happy Birthday and have a nice day!
Happy Birthday!!!Thany you for the joy you brought me.
Happy Birthday 🎂 I’ve made so many friends through postcrossing.com!!!
It’s fun to open the mailbox every day, hoping for great postcards from all over the world 👍😉
Thank you and congratulations ❤️
Happy Birthday 🎂✨
Happy birthday 🎊✨🍰
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday!! 🥳
Thank you for keeping this community so fun and exciting! Happy Birthday 🎉🎉🎉
Happy birthday postcrossing - and thank you!!
Happy Birthday Postcrossing!!!
Postcrossing is so excellent! Happy Birthday and thanks a lot.
Happy Birthday Postcrossing!!!
I've only been here since 2024, but this short time has been so much fun! It was a great honor to attend Postcrossing's milestone stamp release and record-setting meetup in Boston. Truly a wonderful group of people we have here.
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY POSTCROSSING!!!
Happy Birthday. Enjoyed postcrossing since 2008.
Happy birthday dear postcrossing! 🎉🎉🩷
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn about new people, countries and their lives🫶🏻🫶🏻
Unbelievable 🥳
Happy 21st Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁
Happy,happy Birthday, Postcrossing.
Thank you for existing and for connecting different people,cultures and lifestyles in the respect and understanding of all.
May this beautiful continue for many years.
Thank you Ana and Paulo for the morning when you wake up and had the idea for Postcrossing!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!! What I love so much about Postcrossing, that it reinforces that we are much more similar than different, no matter where we are from. Here's to many more happy years!
💥 💥 💥 💥 💥
Congratulations
POSTCROSSING
💥 💥 💥 💥 💥
Happy birthday, and congrats Postcrossing! <33
Damn, I now saved this date in my phone to remind me saving a free request of adresses next time!
Congratulations from my "Kuh-Kaff" Köthen in Germany ♥
Happy birthday! 🎂🎉🎂
Happy 21st birthday Postcrossing! And to all Postcrossers out there. 🎉🎂🍰🥂📝💌📬🥳🙏
Happy birthday 🎊🥳
Postcrossing is such a great hobby that brings us all together 🤗
Happy birthday! All the best to the team! Can't imagine my life without postcrossing, you saved my sanity!
Happy 21st birthday, Postcrossing! Lots of love to the team and to the whole community! I'm so glad I found out about Postcrossing last year. Made my life so much better *-*
Happy 21st anniversary to all the creators of Postcrossing! It's wonderful that we can bring joy and smiles to people all over the world. Thank you for that!
❤️🎂🎉🍀📮🎊
I just spent nearly two hours in the Postcard Lounge, and it was so cool to write with Postcrossers all over the world! Happy birthday, Postcrossing! Here's to many more years of bringing people together, one postcard at a time. :)
Happy 2️⃣1️⃣st birthday Postcrossing! 🎂🎉🎁
🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
What a milestone 👏 your all grown up 🤭
Your creative 📮 experiment has grown in leaps & bounds, bringing immense joy, heaps of happiness & endless kindness to so many of us👌
Well done POSTCROSSING 📬 Congrats to Paulo, Congrats to Ana & Congrats to the team who assist 👏
HAPPY 21 BIRTHDAY 🍾 AVAGOODONE 🥂 from 'Down🌏Under'
🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
Now we can buy a beer to celebrate! 🍻 Happy Postcrossing Friends!
Wonderful! Happy B-day 🥳
I only regret I've found Postcrossing only now... but better late than never!
Great idea that coonects emotions, happiness across the world. Thank you for running this forum. I wish I could have found this website earlier
Happy Birthday, Postcrossing! 21 years of facilitating joy, that is quite an achievement!
Happy birthday! Thank you for bringing something truly special to our world!!
Very exciting!
Happy Birthday! It's been awesome exploring the world through postcards.
I'm a bit sleep-deprived🥱, but I enjoyed the postcard lounge last night and this morning. Happy Postcrossing!🌎️📮
Happy 21st ! I just joined this year and I absolutely love it ! I hung out in the lounge twice today - 5 cards ☺️.
So happy to be a part of this wonderful community . Happy Postcrossing everyone !
Big thank you to Ana and Paulo for having a vision of togetherness through postcards .
📫📮
I'm so sorry I missed it. I came home and saw Ana starting the Lounge and thought I was in, but then saw the link to join and waited and waited until I realized no one was there to let me in. Boo-Hoo!!!! There will be a next time and I will skip work to write postcards with others. It looked like a great time.
21! Since your of drinking age now let’s toast to the best thing on the internet -POSTCROSSING
Cheers🥂
Happy 21st Birthday Postcrossing.
Kudos to the entire team of Postcrossing for keeping this physical activity in the digital world.
I enjoyed spending time in the lounge this morning and seeing fellow postcrossers around the world! I also wrote 6 postcards!!
Never have I ever live-streamed with the world in my yoga clothes. My Germany recipient now knows about this cool event! Thanks to my Postcrossing pen pal in Lincoln. NE for notifying me. Charlene, you’re a dream!
Happy 21st Birthday!! So excited as a newbie to start this adventure!!!! Thank you to all that made this happen!!! Much Love!!!!!
Happy 21st Birthday to Postcrossing. I'm very happy to be part of this community. Very sad I missed the Postcard Lounge.
Happy birthday, to the best International friendship place!
Congrats in reaching 21! I hope the lounge is reopened soon! Sad that I missed it!
Happy birthday postcrossing.Happy postcrossing！
Happy birthday!!! 🎂 🌸🌸❤️🔥🎉 Postcard lounge is an amazing experience, hope it'll be coming back every year! (and maybe on more occasions if resources allow 😉)
Happy birthday, and congratulations on the success of this initiative
Happy Birthday!
I've only been here for four years, but I'm truly happy to be a part of this. 🍀 I look forward to continuing to do with you all.
Thank you so much to the staff! 😊
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! HOPE NEXT 21 YEARS~
Thank you to Ana and Paulo for creating Postcrossing! You have made us a little happier and our lives richer with experiences! Happy Birthday to Postcrossing!
Hurray!!!!!!!!! Happy Birthday!!!! Thank you for being here!!! Good luck!!! ))))))
Postcrossing has come of age 😁, hooray! Happy birthday 🥳! Thanks for everything 💌!
Happy birthday!
You bring so much card joy to all the members.
Happy 21st Birthday 🥳 🎈❤️
We're an "adult" now!....hihi.
Hiep Hiep Hoera, Happy Birthday!
Celebrating the joy that you bring to so many of us...Happiest of happy birthdays!
Happy Birthday Postcrossing Community! I'm very proud of being part of it.
Happy birthday, dear Postcrossing! 😃
Happy birthday, Postcrossing! Thank you so much for offering such a nice platform for all of us!
Congrats!
Happy birthday Postcrossing!🎈
Felicidades
Happy birthday! Thank for bringing this wonderful project into our lifes! Every day I get a card or send one, is a good day. ❤️
Happy Birthday
Happy Anniversary. It would be cool if Postcrossing had a permanent lounge where postcrossers could meet to write postcards together. When I'm sleepless at night here in Germany, I could write postcards together with postcrossers from other countries and continents who are at other time zones. That would be so cool.
Happy Birthday!!!! I love postcrossing
Happy Birthday!
年年有今日 岁岁有今朝！
Life without Postcrossing is possible,but pointless！
Congratulations! <3
What a milestone >>> 21 years!
Thank you for all the joy you bring into my life.
Wishing all of us an amazing year ahead filled with love and wonderful postcards that will fill our mailboxes!
Cheers to our next big chapter!
xoxo
:) :D
Happy Birthday to Postcrossing! 🥳 I’m quite new to this beautiful hobby, but it has already brought me so much joy. Thank you for connecting people around the world. Wishing you endless growth, prosperity, and all the very best 💗
Happy Birthday! Thanks for all your work and dedication!
Happy Birthday to Postcrossing! ~
Warm & Blessed spread throughout the world! ~
Happy Birthday, Postcrossing! Ana, Paulo and the whole Postcrossing team - thank you for running this beautiful project! I am so happy to be part of this community who spreads joy and friendship through little pieces of paper and contributes to make this world a better place 💌🌍♥️🙏
Happy anniversery 🥳💐
### Türkçe
Müze Kumbaram ailesi olarak, Postcrossing’in 21. kuruluş yıl dönümünü ve sınırları aşan bu eşsiz küresel bağı en içten dileklerimizle kutlarız. Dünyanın dört bir yanındaki posta kutularına sevgi, tarih ve heyecan taşıyan bu anlamlı yolculuğun bir parçası olmaktan büyük mutluluk duyuyoruz. Kültürümüzü ve paylaşma ruhunu yaşatan nice yeni kartpostallarda buluşmak dileğiyle!
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### English
As the Müze Kumbaram family, we extend our heartfelt congratulations on Postcrossing's 21st anniversary and this unique, borderless global connection. We are thrilled to be part of this meaningful journey that brings joy, history, and excitement to mailboxes all around the world. Here's to many more postcards celebrating our culture and the spirit of sharing!
Such a wonderful idea. I wish I had joined about 10 years ago when I first heard about it, given I love collecting stamps and postcards! ❤️🇦🇺
I recently discovered post crossing but the system created is truly fantastic and it works well, which is not a given with the Italian post office. Postcards are delivered, which was very difficult before, they disappeared for some reason.
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