Just awesome: PostCrossing

I recently stumbled upon this awesome website, which lets you exchange postcards from all over the world. You basically send a postcard to a random post-crosser (address will be given by the website) and after it gets received you can receive a postcard from some other random post-crosser. You can see the postcards I received via post-crossing on this blog.

Some of the postcards I sent:





Note: Once registered, your will address will be shared with only the random person going to send you the postcard. So, pretty safe as well..

Here is some more explanation from http://www.postcrossing.com/about .

How does it work ?

First, the short version:

1. request an address from the website
2. mail the postcard to the address
3. wait to receive a postcard
4. register the received postcard in the system

The first step is to request to send a postcard. The website will display (and send you an e-mail) with the address of another member and a Postcard ID (e.g.: US-786). You then mail a postcard to that member.

The member receives the postcard and registers it using the Postcard ID that is on the postcard. At this point, you are eligible to receive a postcard from another user. You are now in line for the next person that requests to send a postcard. Where the postcard comes from is a surprise!

You can have up to 5 postcards traveling at any single time. Every time one of the postcards you send is registered, you can request another address. The number of postcards allowed to travel at any single time goes up the more postcards you send!

Now, some post-crossing videos

Happy post-crossing

-Ahmed.