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Stories about the Postcrossing community and the postal world

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The nice people at MOO – makers of all things printed and pretty – kindly joined in our millionth card celebration by offering Postcrossing 10 packs of postcards. We will distribute these to the winners of our “a million cards’ contest”, for 2 lucky users in each of the five categories.

Have you tried MOO postcards?
Each pack of 20 usual sized postcards can be individually personalized with your photos or neat ready-made designs. You can also choose from a variety of back templates, different fonts and colors allowing you to apply your personal stamp to your set of postcards. We use MOO for our postcards too, and we are very happy with the quality of their service!

Additionally, MOO has a couple of promotions running this month:
  • When buying postcards packs (and especially for Postcrossing users) you can use the code postmoo on the payment page to receive 10% off any amount/type of postcards you buy.
  • When buying stickerbooks, you can get '3 StickerBooks for the price of 2' by using the code moostickersfree when purchasing (just make sure that there are 3 packs selected in the basket, before entering the code).
    Stickerbooks allow you to produce 90 different stickers using your favorite photos or designs, and are perfect for adding that little extra something to your postcards.
You can only use one code for each order (but you are welcome to use them both, as many times as you like) and these two offers end by April 30th.

So, get busy and participate in the contest for a chance to win a free postcard pack!

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We’re fast approaching the 1 million postcards received mark on Postcrossing, and we couldn’t be any prouder of all of our users! That’s 1000000 cards being received around the world between people of all ages and cultures, at an average of 1000 cards per day since the project started. And all of this because of each and every one of you. Congratulations!!

It certainly calls for a celebration – or better yet, several celebrations:

Guessing the countries
From which country will the 1000000th card depart? And to which country will it be sent to? Leave your guesses in the comments below, and we’ll give a little prize to the lucky winner who guesses it first.
Only one guess per person will be considered (no multiple accounts usage please), and remember that exchanges between the same country are possible.

Special RAS thread
Misterteapot and Kilona, from Australia, kindly offered themselves to organize a RAS (that’s Random Act of Smileness) thread in honor of the millionth card. Check it out at the respective forum thread, and make someone happy by nominating them to receive postcards and other surprises!

A million cards’ contest
And now, our own little contest: we want to know what you think of Postcrossing. Send us a postcard, with something written about Postcrossing on the back, verse or prose, real story or a simple suggestion, you choose. By the 30th of April we’ll collect all the postcards, make a slideshow and choose two winners on each of these categories:

  • Best backside text
  • Best handmade card
  • Best representative of your country
  • Funniest card
  • Nicest stamp
You can compete in several of these categories, simultaneously. The deadline for this contest is one month, so there’s plenty of time, but please remember that postcards can take up to 2 weeks to arrive in China, so send them well in advance! The address is:

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Best of all, there will be yummy prizes: these are still being discussed, and we’ll reveal more details when we have them a postcard pack from MOO to each of the chosen winners!
More information about the prizes and other promotions, here.

Until then, get busy and good luck!

PS – Please excuse our abuse of exclamation marks – we’re genuinely excited about this! :)

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Time for another International Postcrossing Meetup, this time in the city of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.
Amsterdam river-view - Rotterdam (Netherlands)Home to the largest port in Europe, and the famous Cube Houses, Rotterdam is an exciting and beautiful city located on the banks of the river Nieuwe Maas.

The meeting will start around 11 o’clock at the Rotterdam Central station (in front of the Bruna) and last until the evening. Plans for the day are being kept secret by the organizers, to not spoil the surprise!
If you’re around, bring your comfortable shoes and join your fellow postcrossers on a day of fun activities in Rotterdam!

For more details, visit this forum thread, or contact goofychicken directly.

PS – So far there are postcrossers attending from The Netherlands, Russia, Norway, Sweden and Germany! :)
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Postcrossing’s group @ Flickr reached 2000 users today, hoorray! Our big “thank you” to all the contributors who keep sharing their received cards (49000 and counting).
To celebrate, we made a little mosaic with some of the images. Enjoy!

Flickr mosaic

Credits:
1. US 157597, 2. USA, 3. LT-5111, 4. CN-11219–2, 5. ES-18210 26.2.2008 Jordi02, 6. NL-45407, 7. 20080218 – RECd—PT-43695, 8. DE-131019 from magira, 9. US-139115, 10. FI-261302 from Finland, 11. Russia – rest of the world tag, 12. FI-237826, 13. CA-21032, 14. Japan_JP23043, 15. Slovakia SK-2659, 16. NL-63463, 17. Chrysler, 18. Mount Huangshan, 19. MY-5306, 20. DK-3116, 21. lighthouse_texel_netherlands, 22. From Meulikki, 23. bouffant – Canada, 24. Shirujo Castle (Japan), 25. DE-125149

PS – Not sharing your received postcards with the rest of us yet? Sign up at Flickr.com and join the Postcrossing pool!

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We’re proud to announce a new Postcrossing!

It’s been a long ride, with over a year of development, design and testing, but here it is, with a fresh face and some cool new features:

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  • Avatars
  • Google maps integration
  • Inactive state (for when you go on holidays)
  • Invite your friends easily
  • Check out members near you
  • More ways to arrange your data
  • A blog, to keep you posted on the latest news and events
  • Improved address selection

The best feature of all is actually hidden underneath Postcrossing. Paulo re-coded the whole system, which means from now onwards it will be much easier to include new features! Got a suggestion? Let us know!

We’re really pleased with the result, and we hope you are too. Enjoy!