Hi everyone!
I’m doing a school project and it’s topic is “Postcrossing”. I’m going to make a survey and I will be glad if you take part in it.
Let’s start!
I took part in InCoWriMo and many peeps mention this postcrossing…
I enjoy receiving mail and all postcards received will be framed and hung upon the wall…
My favourite postcard was sent from my daughter on holiday in Germany
Hi Alina! There are a few surveys conducted by Postcrossing already which might answer some of your questions (in particular the first one). You can find the results here.
How did you find out about postcrossing?
I was in Google searching for free mail. For stickers and things to read for my kid.
Why/for what purpose are you doing this?
To bring a little happiness to someone else and for my family to see some sites. Good for homeschool
And the last question. Tell us about your favourite postcard, why is it special?
The two postcards that start my collection is my parents postcards from the Vietnam war
Hello @AlinaLoz
I found out about Postcrossing through a friend, she has been a member for many years and talks about the enjoyment she gets from it.
I find that taking the time to read the biography of the recipient and then write the card is good for my mental health, spending a little time everyso often in peace and quiet concentrating on the task at hand is good for me. Hopefully my cards bring just a little bit of joy to someone else.
I have only received one card so far, a lovely picture of a castle in Germany. There was a nice friendly message from the sender too.
I can’t quite remember, but I think I was searching for websites to find pen pals and I stumbled upon it this way
I like the fact, that I have a moment, where I think about some stranger and how I can make that person happy and I like the thought, that someone else does this for me too. And I love receiving mail
I don’t think I have a favorite. I like the ones with thoughtful messages the most.
Good luck with your school project!
I was looking to buy special stamps on Etsy and someone mentioned Postcrossing in the reviews. I looked it up and immediately liked the concept👍
I enjoy receiving mail and sending it, especially using beautiful stamps - for me they are the most important part of the postcard. It’s a creative hobby and also helps to cope with the isolation of working from home (for 2 years now… sigh… so fed up with this pandemic)
For me, it is the stamps and the back of the postcard that make it special… The best one was from a Finnish lady who met her German husband through a postcrossing postcard. Amazing story!
Thank you for reaching out!
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Have fun with your project!
I learned from other teachers
I am helping out for the project
My favorite postcard was one from metropolis that was a superman one!!
Привет, Алина! Отвечу на русском, чтобы было понятнее
Из тиктока, конкретнее из видео @\cheerful_giraffe_
Целей несколько:
Hi Alina,
Nro 1
I heard an interview in the radio. The reporter asked quite amazed: “Do you really take a picture of every card you get?” And the answer was confident and irresponsible: “Yes of course, and also of every card I send myself.” I had to find out what this was all about, it was so convincing and funny answer.
Nro 2
First I thought this could be a fun and a joyful thing to do. A) I have history with writing letters, so this sounded like exotic return to my youth. B) Getting tired of mailbox only filled with ads and invoices thought this could change my routine walk to the box - some ideas of social connection there. C) Nice to have cards and short notes from different countries and people, specially now during the time of covid - and mailing itself is nice too.
My thoughts have got deeper during these months. It’s really touching to get many of these messages: cards written and decorated with such a care, trembling handwriting apologizing for not being able to write much. Some cards have been really impressive and the pictures hit my soul. I’ve shed many tears - and I’ve been member only for some months! So, now I do this for learning, hoping to bring joy - and just enjoying and cherishing this unique possibility to connect.
Nro 3.
It is not only a courtesy to say that all cards are special. They all are. Each card can tell its own unique story, you can “read” the card in so many ways and perspectives.
The simple but the same time huge idea of PC has cleared in my mind lately: people from even different continents can connect, have same interests and share ideas in a one single card. That is worth Nobel Prize - as I saw someone proposed.
I wish you success in your school project,
Marita
A friend of mine suggests me the site and sends me my first postcard
I love waiting for new postcards and I found that I also love choose and write postcards to unknown Person
I don’t have a favourite postcard, I mean… Every postcards I received is special for some reason (the image, the stamp, the story, the message they write to me…). So I think that all postcards sended to me are special, as well as all postcards sended from me
I honestly cannot remember. I thought a friend must have told me about it but I checked and she joined after me. So I must have found it on the interenet somehow.
I enjoy connecting with random people. It also satisfies the gambler in me waiting where my next postcard will go to or come from. I love seeing all the beatiful postcard designs too! And last but not least, I use Postcrossing as an artistic outlet and sometimes make postcards.
It is impossible to pick one postcard. Some have touching messages, some are simply visually stunning, some come from very exotic places. But one that I remember was a postcard that one Russian girl painted for me. Both the picture and the message were very special to me.
I did snail mail by writing letters before and it became too exhausting to write long letters, so I looked for postcard swapping site (less writing). Voilà! Google showed Postcrossing site on the 1st list
I do it because I find writing and putting aesthetic efforts to the cards are therapeutic. It helps me (a bit) with my handwriting and creativity. In this digital era we use computers, phones… so I need to find way to keep my writing trained 
. It teaches a lot of patience too
Don’t have favourite postcard. I appreciate every card I received because imagine, that someone, somewhere sending you something that addressed to you personally. Although I like postcards with long messages the most
Good luck on your project. I hope you get enough samples for your data 
My mom started it 9 months before I did so I kept seeing her get cool postcards and write to countries far away for some time. Then my mom encouraged me to start too and it was ne of the best decicions I’ve made.
2. Why/for what purpose are you doing this?
I have a few. One is to be creative. I like the process of carefully reading a profile and picking the perfect card for them and to decorate it.
Other is that I love receiving mail. After soon two years of this I’ve noticed that it had helped me with my mild online shopping addiction I then didn’t realise I had. Especially with covid, incoming packages and mail were some of the few things I looked forward in a day. And with postcrossing that gave me a new purpose to the day, whether it was seeing new mail, writing new cards or seeing the Hurray! messages.
I also love connecting with people, but that doesn’t happen with everyone so it isn’t my main reason. But when it happens, it’s amazing.
3. And the last question. Tell us about your favourite postcard, why is it special?
Many thoughts incoming in 3, 2, 1…
I couldn’t ever choose only one. And even if I can name a few, I’d had to draw the line somewhere and that would be hard. I’ve of course received some cards that I could name, but that wouldn’t mean there aren’t other just as great cards that I’ve received.
Some reasons I would consider some cards very special to me are that I can see the person has truly read my profile well and understood me as a person. And I can see that throught the card, the message or both. I’ve received a card that this person had bought on their holiday years ago and waited for the right person to send it to and that was me. And the theme was just right for me. We shared the same values and I really saw us connectng throught just a single postcard. I thought that was special. But I still wouldn’t say that is overall my one and only favourite. I’ve received a card of some dogs that are just the cutest and photographed the most beautiful way. I remember how that card looks even after over a year. And I still remember receiving a card that I had on my favourites wall, where this person told me they noticed the movie I’ve recommended on my profile and would watch it after writing the card. That also made my heart very warm.
There are so many, big and small reasons a card can be special to me. So it would be hard to define what makes it my favourite.
I knew about postcrossing when I got introduced to it by my school’s Philatelic club, but only actively joined after the pandemic when a local Philatelic society “Komuniti Filateli Malaysia” created a Facebook group called “Pencinta Poskad 2P”, which is a Malaysian postcrossing group. (There are two Msian FB groups for postcard writing, and this is the more active group and it’s easier to get in)
I inherited a large postcard collection from my grandmother and wanted to start my own postcard collection too.I found out about Postcrossing by chance. I was searching for fun and easy hobbies, stumbled upon this Buzzfeed article and I noticed a reference to PC in the comments. Read around the site a bit, went through the FAQs, decided to give it a try. And here we are, 53 official postcards later 
At first my only purpose was to have some fun: relax, take my mind off things and enjoy myself. Now, I’m much more into the connection part: I love picking an address, reading the profile, choosing the perfect card, decorate it… When I receive a card, I thank the sender and try to make them understand how happy and enthusiastic I feel thanks to their postcard 
It’s so hard to chose only one postcard! I think my favourite is one I recently received from a penpal It has a special meaning for a number of reasons: the picture on the front is lovely, the message and decorations on the back are wonderful and I love the sense of kinship between us.