postcrossing.com

For happy mailboxes all over the world! Dear Ciao community, today I want to tell you about a hobby of mine - Postcrossing! What's Postcrossing? Postcrossing is a project made for exchanging postcards all over the world! While it may sound like a project for avid stamp collectors at first, it is so much more - though it's certainly helpful if you are fond of foreign stamps! Postcrossing makes it possible to recieve postcards from all over the world, which is very exciting - it's so much nicer to check your mailbox and await more than just bills and adverts. How does it work? When you sign up ... more

I grew up at a time when people still wrote proper letters to each other, when email and SMS and instant messaging was never heard of (not by 'normal' people anyway, computer geeks must have known already). It was the time when a lot of younger as well as older people had pen friends where you regularly sat down and put pen to paper and wrote a letter to your friend either in the same country or some exotic place abroad letting them know what's been going on. You then got on with your life while you waited for a reply. Nowadays we use mobile phones to call and send texts or when we have access ... more

Today I´d like to introduce my favourite website to you....it´s www.postcrossing.com. A website that went online in July 2005 and gives the users the chance to send and receive postcards...not e-cards, but snailmail cards. And the most exciting fact is: you send the cards to random users and get cards by other random users. So you never know where you will send something and when and from where something is coming to you...Sounds crazy? Yes, it is! And its a lot of fun! 1. How I found it and how it works... It was the beginning of August when I looked at www.bookcrossing.com through the forums ... more

I've recently got a bit of a random hobby which is brightening up my days one delivery of mail at a time. I'm one of those people who will run excitedly to the doormat upon hearing the postman, sure that even though I'm expecting nothing exciting, there will be something anyway. Alas no, and I sulk for a few seconds, most days. I stumbled across Postcrossing randomly whilst surfing the web and thinking it sounded fun signed up and sent out my first few postcards. The concept is pretty simple. You sign up, providing your name and address. You then request addresses (initially up to five at one ... more