Postcrossing Blog

We know many Postcrossers take their yearly break in the upcoming weeks to relax and visit new places. If you are one of those and you’ll be away from your home address for a while, we recommend you to switch your account to the Inactive state – you can do that easily just by editing your Postcrossing profile. When you are back, all you need to do is to switch it back to Active and you’ll be back in business again! This will tell Postcrossing to not give your address to any other member while you are away. Rest assured that when you’re back, they will be sent your way.

Oh, and don’t forget to re-stock with postcards from the place where you’ll be spending your days away!

Bon voyage!

Postcrossing is three years old today! Horray! We couldn’t let this day go by without thanking the most important part of the project: you!

Since it’s early days, Postcrossing has always focused on having its’ members as a central part of the project. Without you, Postcrossing would simply not work. And what started as a single person pet project, now reaches 184 countries and 57000 members. Furthermore, we reached our first million of Postcards exchanged and we are now on the fast track to the second million! So, once again, thank you!

It’s been a very busy year in the Postcrossing headquarters – the busiest so far, and also the most productive one! In February, after several months of work, we proudly published a major new design of the site with a fresh new look and several new features. This was a very important step on the Postcrossing life, giving it more room to grow and allowing for easy implementation of new features.

But several other events happened during this last year. We had the 1 million postcards contest – thank you everyone who participated! And we organized a donation collection for the SIchuan earthquake, proving once again that Postcrossers are a certainly very special community of users.

The new postcards limits were very welcomed by everyone, favoring the active users as they send more postcards and at the same time keeping a sensible limit on the newcomers.

More recently, we have created the Postcrossing Supporter and Ambassador virtual badges for those of you who help supporting this project by donating money to it or by helping it through an outstanding contribution. If you didn’t noticed the nice looking badges on the site yet, then head to www.postcrossing.com/support for more information how to get one by helping this project grow even more.

By the way, have you heard the news? A marriage was celebrated between two postcrossers who met on the website, and have since moved to Finland! We are very happy to know that this project provided a way for them to meet. Do you know any other nice facts about Postcrossing? If so, be sure to let us know!

We hope you have enjoyed this last year as much as we have. Here’s to another exciting year, filled with smiles and busy mailboxes!

Thank you!

Hello everybody!
Here is a small update to let you know that Postcrossing forum was upgraded to the latest version. Some new features:

• The country flags are back!
• A notepad is now available
• The avatars’ bug was fixed, and now the avatar of the sender is included in the U2Us
• If you receive a new U2U while browsing the forum, an alert will be displayed
• Other small bugs were also fixed

Enjoy!

Today we are happy to introduce two exciting new features: Postcrossing supporters and Postcrossing ambassadors. What do they have in common? They both honor contributions to Postcrossing!

Postcrossing supporters

Donating is one way to show appreciation for what has been done in Postcrossing so far.
We have long wanted to reward the users that sponsor the project: their donations are very important as they allows us to pay for the project monthly expenses (server, storage, bandwidth, development).

So, from today onwards, all users that make a donation will have a badge near their username, like this: paulo

Wear it proudly!

Postcrossing Ambassadors

But there are many other ways to contribute to Postcrossing, all important and cherished.
A few examples:

• Write an article for your local newspaper
• Make posters and spread them on your neighbourhood
• If you are a teacher, you can give a class on Postcrossing and invite your students to join

The objective is, of course, to spread the word about Postcrossing, so use your imagination! The reward is our huge “thank you” and a “thumbs up!” badge on your profile:

Tip: put your mouse over the words “Postcrossing Ambassador” to learn about the user’s contribution.

Have you done any of these good deeds? Then send us an email, and we’ll update your profile! :-)

Postcrossing HQ makes a point in checking whether every country from which we receive a postcard is in fact as beautiful as that postcard promises ***. We are happy to confirm that Malaysia, with its sunny beaches and spectacular cultural diversity lives up to the promise!

After a week there, batteries were recharged, ideas were brewed, and we returned home eager to get some work done.

So… check out your profile for some re-structured information and cute new icons!
As a bonus, if you are on the top 50 rank by most postcards sent or more distance sent from your country, you’ll have a little medal there too. :-)

*** Well, not really, but if the job existed, I would be the first to apply!