I joined Postcrossing a couple of months ago and now it’s taking over our kitchen wall—in the best way. This is a site for exchanging postcards with people around the world. Hmm, “exchange” isn’t the right word because these aren’t reciprocal swaps where you send a card to someone and get one back from the same person. Instead, you create a profile and then you’re given the name and address of another user. You send a postcard to that person. When he receives it, he registers the card, which prompts the system to send your address to someone different. In the beginning, you’re allowed to send up to five cards at once. As people begin to receive and register your cards, your maximum increases. Not that you have to send out five, six, seven cards all at once. You can do it one at a time if you like.
So far we have sent out ten cards and received eight—from Russia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Taiwan, India, Switzerland, Germany, and Finland! As you can see, we’re taping them to the wall above our world map. So much fun. This is a pretty delightful way to combine the joys of snail mail with a whizbang dose of world geography.
Happy mail day here! I got a postcard from Finland. This one traveled 5,303 miles and took 10 days.
I got a new postcard from Sydney today!! The travel time was 11 days and the distance was 8,583 miles. Love
Postcrossing...I get to travel for the cost of postage.
Look at the new postcard I received from Christa in the Netherlands. This postcard traveled 5,042 miles and took 14 days to get to me. I just love
Postcrossing!!
Ok, so I am totally one of those gals that love to get goodies in the mailbox. I signed up for Postcrossing a while back and just fell in love with it. In a nutshell it is an online project that allows you to send and receive postcards from all over the world. Look at the postcard I got from Lingjing from China. She wrote the cutest message and I especially enjoy looking at the postage stamps and all the goodies stamped all over the postcards. Now, just to note, I don't know any of the people I receive and send to but I always send them a simple note to wish them well.
Postcrossing has a lot of members and the best part is that it's free to sign up (you basically pay for your postcard and postage)
127,201 members
201 countries
94 postcards/hour
2,964,744 postcards received
115,011 postcards traveling
16,240,637,008 kms traveled
405,256 laps around the world You can find out more about it here:
Postcrossing
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How very sweet!