Postcrossing: Trade postcards across the world
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Postcrossing is a free system for helping strangers exchange postcards. You register with the site. Then you request an address to send a postcard to. The site gives you an address and an ID number. You write and mail the postcard, with the ID on it. The person who receives the card enters your ID on the website. Then your address is given to the next person who requests an address, so you should receive a postcard soon. By trading postcards in English with people from all over the world, you get practice reading and writing. You might even make some friends.
Some people have scanned and uploaded the images from the postcards they’ve received on Flickr. You can even see a map of the postcards that are currently being sent across the globe. It’s really amazing when you see it like that!
According to the website, there are
- 24886 users in 143 countries
- 4399 males, 16496 females; 3863 prefer not to say
- 578528 postcards received
- 30447 postcards traveling at this moment
It’s free to register, but of course you’ll have to pay for postage. I’ll have to see if I have any international postcard stamps!
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