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Oh, happy day — today is the day lucky postcard number 80 million has been received! Woohoo!

Whether you’ve sent just one postcard or many thousands of them, you’ve played a part in this achievement. Bravo, everyone! 👏 Also, we’re celebrating this milestone almost exactly 2 years after the last big milestone (70 million), so it looks like our trajectory is still very stable, with an average of 5 million postcards per year. Which is just brilliant!

80 million postcards is a lot of postcards though, and my mind is not quite able to visualize that many postcards… but this is where math comes in! Calculating the area of all these postcards, we know that they would be enough to carpet the Vatican with postcards two times and a half, or the area of the Forbidden City in Beijing over 1.5 times! Also, assuming each postcard weighs about 5 grams (0.17 ounces), all these postcards would weigh as much as 67 fully grown African elephants! 🐘

Now, we know what you’re really curious about: which postcard was the lucky 80 millionth, and who got the closest guess in our celebration contest? Without further ado…

Postcard number 80,000,000 was NL-5891077, sent by turtle_lover in the Netherlands on 23 December 2024 and registered on 07 January 2025 at 02:32:25 UTC by Flicki, in Germany!

And the sharpest guesser in our milestone contest? That honor goes to jennyfleur! You will receive a bonanza of papersisters prizes, including postcards, rolls of tape, stickers, a rubberstamp and more. But that’s not all! Runners-up dessie82, Emicho, Viiliaaa, Yunling, dhe and xxxxyyyyzzzz were just minutes off the mark and will also receive sets of lovely postcards and stickers to celebrate as well. Enjoy all these gifts, generously offered by papersisters!

No matter how many postcards you’ve sent or how long you’ve been a postcrosser, we hope you’ll take a moment to celebrate this milestone with us. Do a little happy dance, send an extra postcard, or share some Postcrossing joy with friends! This community thrives because of you — your love of connecting, sharing stories, and spreading a bit of kindness to mailboxes everywhere. 💌

And now, a brand new year unfolds ahead of us, with plenty of postcards waiting to be written. Let’s brighten mailboxes worldwide and come back to celebrate 90 million postcards in a couple of years!

If you’ve been following the numbers on the homepage, you know the 80,000,000 postcard will be registered soon… and if you’ve been around for awhile, you know what that means: it’s time to open the guessing game for this big Postcrossing milestone. Here is how it works:

It should be easy: just choose a slot for the date and the minute you think postcard number 80,000,000 will be registered! You can have a look through Postcrossing’s statistics page if that helps… or maybe throw a dart at a calendar, or interpret some tea leaves — anything goes!

And naturally, we have some prizes as well, and this year it’s a veritable prize extravaganza! The 80 million guessing game is being sponsored by papersisters, who have very generously donated a bounty of stationery treasures for our winners:

• The postcrosser whose bet is the exact minute when postcard 80 million gets registered will receive a set of 12 monthly postcards “Travel the year”, an Airmail sticker sheet, a little snailmail notebook, a pen, three different rolls of tape of papersisters designs and their popular “weather” rubberstamp (+ the postcards and stickers mentioned below).
• The 6 next best bets (before or after the registering time) will receive 15 different HPC Happy Postcrossing from… postcards on general topics like seasons and holidays so they can be used globally, plus a set of 30 ID stickers in different designs.

Here are some rules we need to mention: each time slot can only be chosen by one single person, so the first postcrosser to pick that slot gets to keep it. You can change it at a later stage if you’d like, but only from the available time slots left. The bets will be automatically closed when there are 1000 postcards left to postcard 80,000,000. Check the contest page for more details.

Keep sending postcards and refining your guesses, and keep an eye on the counter on the frontpage of the website to know how many postcards still need to be registered. Good luck, everyone!

What a way to start the year in style, with 70 million postcards in the hands of postcrossers all around the world! 🎉🎉🎉

It’s been almost two years since we last celebrated one of these milestones (10 million postcards ago), so if you do the math, this means we’re averaging about five million postcards per year here in Postcrossing… which is pretty impressive! Well done, everyone! Whether you’ve sent one single postcard or 10 thousand of them, you’ve contributed to this milestone too!

Can you guess how far we’d get if we made a little path with these 70 million postcards, all put together side by side? It’s a line that stretches aaaaaaall the way from London to Sydney down under! Or from New York to Melbourne!

I guess what you really want to know is which postcard was the lucky one, and who guessed the correct time at which postcard 70 million was registered. So, without further ado…

Postcard number 70,000,000 (US-9001590) was sent by jmorris in the USA on 26 December 2022, and registered on 04 January 2023 23:36 (UTC) by BowieGirl, also in the USA!

The postcrosser with the best aim on our guessing game was henna168, whose bet was spot on! Keep an eye on your mailbox for your new box of 100 postcards, which will be on its way soon!

The other lucky postcrossers who came super close to the correct second were _Vika_, serenji14, Larch, LeviEng, sharkee and Mirunka! You will each receive a set of nice postcards as well. We hope you like it!

No matter where you are, or how many postcards you’ve sent, we hope you take a moment today to do a little dance and celebrate this nice milestone! This community is made of so many different people, and we’re thankful for each and every one of you. Your passion for happy mail and for connecting the world is the reason this project exists!

Ok, enough sappiness… let’s go brighten some mailboxes, and see if we can make it to 80,000,000 postcards before January 2025! 💪

It’s almost time! The 70,000,000 postcard might already be on its way to the lucky recipient, so now is the perfect moment to open the guessing game for this big Postcrossing milestone. Here is how it works:

Pretty straightforward, right? Just choose a slot for the date and the minute you think lucky postcard number 70,000,000 will be registered according to your gut feelings. Feel free to have a look through Postcrossing’s statistics page if that helps, or maybe ask your local fortune-teller for a hint!

And as has become tradition in these events, we have some nice prizes too! The postcrosser whose bet is the closest to the exact minute when postcard number 70 million is registered will win a box set of 100 postcards, and the 6 next best guesses (before or after the registering time) will receive a pack of 20–30 postcards each. 🎉 Hurray!

Here are some ground rules: each time slot can only be chosen by one single person, so the first person to pick that slot gets to keep it. You can change it at a later stage if you’d like, but only from the available time slots left. The bets will be automatically closed when there are 1000 postcards left to postcard 70,000,000. Check the contest page for more details.

Good luck, everyone! Keep sending postcards and refining your guesses, and keep an eye on the counter on the frontpage of the website, to know how many postcards still need to be registered… any day now!

Look at that — we did it, everyone! Together we reached the much awaited milestone of 60 million postcards received! Hurray!

A postcard might not seem like much by itself, but all these millions of postcards carrying our words and handwriting are such important tokens of friendship and connection in these socially distanced times. Traveling is difficult right now, but that doesn’t mean we can’t share a moment with someone far away and take a peek through their window… right here in our mailboxes.

And did you know that if we put all these postcards together side by side, we would get a line stretching from London to Seoul? 🤓 Pretty cool, right? But I know you’re all dying to know who guessed the correct time at which lucky postcard 60 million was registered, so without further ado…

Postcard number 60,000,000 (BY-2711325) was sent by YourWitch in Belarus on January 10 2021, and registered today at 10:17:18 (UTC) by Tominni in Czechia!

The postcrosser with the most accurate aim was chrisbonham11, whose guess was spot on! Your shiny new box of 100 postcards will be on its way soon!

The other lucky postcrossers who came the closest to the right second were Dorkius, NZ_Chris, mathalie, majewski, Shih-chia, and stokely — brilliant! You will each receive a set of nice postcards as well.

Whether you’ve sent 1 or 10,000 postcards in the past 15 years, you have our permission to celebrate your contribution to this historical milestone with a celebratory slice of your favorite treat (share it with us on Instagram!)… or just by sitting down at your desk and enjoy sending a postcard today, knowing you’re part of this postcard revolution happening all around us. 😊

And last but not least, if you’ll allow us our weepy moment, we’d just like to say thank you to our lovely team (including all the forum volunteers), to all the supporters and ambassadors, and last but not least, to all of you — you’re the reason Postcrossing keeps going, postcard after postcard. Onwards, to 70 million postcards!