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Stories about the Postcrossing community and the postal world

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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!