Choosing the official
#worldpostcardday
postcard wasn't an easy task, but together with Finepaper and the
@thepostalmuseum
, we've done it! Come check out this year's gorgeous postcard, which you can download and print to send on October 1st! 😍
.... aaaaaaaaand we've done it! 🎉 50! 🎉 MILLION! 🎉 POSTCARDS! 🎉 Hurraaaaaay! Give us a minute to run the numbers and we'll let you know which postcard was the lucky one, and who the winners of the contest are. Stay tuned!
Anja 🇳🇱 was the lucky recipient of FR-1000000... but instead of just a postcard, she received a bounty goodies from the French community, who got together to surprise the recipient of this very special Postcard ID. 😍 How cool is that?!
This week, we visited the leaning postboxes of Taipei — so famous that they even have their own special postcards! 😍 They were hit by a billboard blown by typhoon Soudelor in 2015, but managed to survive and today they are quite popular.
#postboxsaturday
Happy World Postcard Day!!! 🎉 We walked everywhere in downtown Porto, but couldn't find a nice postbox... so we're mailing ours from a street kiosk. Still counts!
#postboxsaturday
#worldpostcardday
And here is the lovely postcard that will represent this year's World Postcard Day! Pauline is an animation student from France, and she did a great job interpreting this year's theme, "World Peace". We couldn't be any prouder! 🕊
#worldpostcardday
Ok, we’re back! Incident investigated, and it seems to be related with our super fleißig German members, who have just reached DE-10000000!!! 🎉🎉 Congratulations! 🎉🎉
Hurray, today is the day! 🎉 Postcrossing is celebrating 15 years of happy mailboxes, and you're all invited to join us in a little celebratory dance and enjoy this special day! 🎉
Postcard SK-278899 traveled seven days from Slovakia to Germany and was registered juuuust at the right time to become the 68 millionth postcard in Postcrossing. Hurray! 🎉🎉
How neat is this upcoming Postcrossing-themed stamp, from
@post_luxembourg
? 🇱🇺 We hope to see it on many postcards traveling all around the world, very soon! 😍
We didn't have a nice postbox picture for
#postboxsaturday
... so we cheated a little bit and asked ChatGPT to create a few. 😅 Which one is your favorite?
The new
#worldpostcardday
design is out! Indonesian postcrosser and indie children books illustrator Lisa Saputra (
@lisasaputra
) is 2023's winner, and we can't wait to see her beautiful postcard make its way around the world. Congratulations, Lisa! 🎉
Hello, new German Postcrossing stamp!!! 🇩🇪
From October 6 onwards, the most active community on the project will finally have their very own Postcrossing stamp, to use on the thousands of postcards they send everyday! Hurraaaaaay! 🎉🎉🎉
Next week,
#postboxsaturday
will coincide with
#worldpostcardday
... Let's put the two together and photograph our postcards next to pretty postboxes! 📮
Earlier today, a postcard from Russia to the USA was the 49 millionth card registered in Postcrossing! 🎉 We're officially in countdown for the big 50 now! 📬
We've juuuust crossed the 65 million postcards milestone, hurray! 🎉🎉🎉 Lucky postcard number 65,000,000 traveled from France to Hungary, and features some nice holiday wishes:
Postcrosser marupiter sent us a photo of this brilliant postbox from Uji county, in Japan! It's shaped like a tea jar, as Uji is famed for its matcha. 🍵
#postboxsaturday
200 years ago today, the song "Silent Night, Holy Night" was first sang in a chapel in Austria. It's now a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, a symbol of peace all around the world... and a beautiful stamp by Austrian Post. Wherever you are, have a peaceful and happy holiday.
Susan from Long Island, NY sent us this photo she snapped on the fancy east side of the island. How cool is that? There's a street called "Post Crossing" in New York state! ☺️
Postcard US-9786292 traveled 23 days and 6,797 km from the USA to Germany, to become the 74 millionth postcard received in Postcrossing. 🎉 Congratulations, everyone!
For
#PostboxSaturday
, a beautiful postbox we found in Chiang Mai 🇹🇭 some years ago. What postboxes have you been feeding lately? Take a picture and share it with others! :)
We stumbled on a couple of colorful postboxes, celebrating Taiwan's indigenous tribes! Does your country have special postboxes too? Who (or what) do they honor?
#postboxsaturday
Hurray! 🎉 Postcard number 63 million has just been registered — it traveled from the US to Taiwan in 19 days, and arrived just in time to mark this special milestone! Congratulations everyone! 🎉
Hurray! 🎉 57 million postcards registered just now — and just as many smiles delivered. 😍 Congratulations everyone, we did it! Here's the lucky postcard:
On their last visit to Tokyo, the Little Mail Carriers saw a variety of interesting mailboxes! 🏣 Their report of this trip will be on the blog next Monday — don't miss it!
#postboxsaturday
Less than 1000 postcards to go, and all slots are filled for the rest of today and into the early hours of tomorrow... When will postcard number 70 million be registered?
Good news, everyone: a new Postcrossing-themed stamp is being announced today! This super cute specimen comes from Belarus Post and will be available on July 10th — just in time for Postcrossing's anniversary. 😍
A throwback to Gibraltar, on this week's
#postboxsaturday
. So many lovely postboxes on the hashtag, it's a joy to see them being noticed and cherished! 😍
"Wow... so much space for postcards!" 😍 The Little Mail Carrier's cousin inspects the oldest working postbox in the British islands and gives it a thumbs up!
#postboxsaturday
One of our other hobbies is sending rolls of analogue film to strangers for them to double-expose (ie, take pictures on top of our pictures). Once, a postbox showed up on one of of these serendipitous photos, much to our delight. So here's an artsy
#postboxsaturday
!
The
#WorldPostcardDay
has an official postcard! 😍 You're free to print it, and we have a few to give away, featuring a very special cancellation mark... Read on for the details!
Good news, everyone! 🎉 There are some new Postcrossing stamps in the horizon, from Guernsey, Belarus and Austria! Come check out their playful designs:
Thank you everyone for your many birthday wishes! It was a brilliant day, celebrating this community and the joy it brings. Onwards, to another 15 years of postcards and happy mailboxes! 🚀
For today's
#postboxsaturday
, the Little Mail Carriers sit atop a duo of pillar boxes in Terceira island (Azores, Portugal). Red is for normal mail, and blue is for priority mail.
A tiny mouse kissing a ballet-dancing hippo who is being held by two tigers… 🐁🦛🐅 Is it a dream? Nope — it’s the 59 millionth postcard received in Postcrossing! 🎉
A really nice article about Postcrossing just came out on TUI’s inflight magazine... and for once, we hope none of you gets the chance to read it as that would mean you’re all staying at home. Stay safe and healthy!
We blinked and suddenly 58 million postcards have been registered in Postcrossing — HURRAY! 🎉🎉 Postcard number
#58000000
is super cute too, check it out:
How cute are these postboxes at Taiwan’s Postal Museum? 😍 There are a lot of different ones to explore, and the exhibitions are great too! Hope everyone is having a fun
#postboxsaturday
- share the postboxes you see today! 📮
Orla caught our attention when she sent us a postcard featuring a whale-themed cancellation mark that she had designed 🐳 Turns out, she's the postmaster of a Canadian seaside community that is regularly visited by whales! We asked her some questions to find out more!
Did you hear that sound? It was the sound of postcard number 75 million reaching its recipient and being registered!! Woohoo! 🎉 Here is the lucky card, which looks like it was handmade by the sender — bonus points! 😍
This Portuguese mailbox is located at the Museum of Communications in Lisbon
@FPComunicacoes
and the nice thing about it is that you can see how the interior looks. It's not often that we get the chance to peek inside!
#PostboxSaturday
“Now everything is so fast and quick, but how is the communication? Postcard is so slow and it looks human scale. It takes much time, and it means that it is filled with time in a way.”
From Yoshimoda, in Japan 🇯🇵
#150yearsofpostcards
#postcrossing
Check out Laridian's gorgeous map quilt, made with fabrics that postcrossers sent them in the past 3 years... 😍 It's beautiful, and contains so many stories and interesting details!