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Late last year, Deutsche Post and Berlin’s Museum for Communications launched a video competition themed “Why do we still write letters?”, where people could post videos explaining the charm of written mail. They got over 400 video submissions, which you can see on their YouTube channel. They’re sweet, touching stories of why we still put pen to paper to write to to each other.

We only heard about the competition once it was over, but were happily surprised to find a video about Postcrossing among the entries! Have a look:

Johannes (aka joze-post) made this charming video, which does a great job of portraying the randomness of Postcrossing. He didn’t win the competition… but he stole our hearts with the cheerful music and fun details about some of the postcards. Well done Johannes! :)

74 comments so far

willempie2, Netherlands

Nice video :). I enjoyed watching it !!

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rosenbusch, Germany

Great!!!

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Jesterday, Netherlands

That was wonderful and so upbeat :-) Great job!

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Jess-Cee, Netherlands

It's a winner to me!

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GoCindy, United States of America

Very entertaining. Thank you!

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Luziaceleste, Brazil

Lovely and truly represents the shower of images-messages-surprises we get!

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Geminiscp, Portugal

Awesome! :)

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HM, Netherlands

Marjet is right. The dresses are awful.
Nice video! Nice blog.

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foxfires, United Kingdom

Fantastic!

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MissPatitav, Spain

I enjoyed the video very much. It explains exactly what Postcrossing is

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jm1122, United States of America

Perfectly done!

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Bille, Germany

Yes, that's postcrossing. Great video!

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Tjoks, South Africa

Wonderful! Keep in mind there are postcrossers in Africa too ☺

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ned44440, Ireland

Wonderful. The winning videos must have been spectacular!!!

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Ramya, United States of America

So happy for this:) Postcrossing does bring us all together...

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Ssabalongo, India

too good :)

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AmitxSahoo, India

Awesome Video!!

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loda84, Slovakia

very nice :) Happy postcrossing!

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JaniszAlex, Poland

Very nice! :)

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Kereru, New Zealand

Enjoyed the video :) Nicely done!

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Ninocas, Portugal

Loved it!

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Kaoutar21, Morocco

Awesome and entertaining video! But I won't deny I was expecting at least one postcard from Africa. This is the magic of postcrossing, it's universal!

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freezeframe03, United States of America

Love this! There are some fun ideas for things to write about on our cards.

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Arviedie, Netherlands

Great video, glad to be part of it all!

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idus, Germany

This is really cool! :)
Well done.

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ripco2, Canada

This was great!

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karinoswald, Sweden

It seems that the creator of this has used their own received postcards, which would explain the absence of African cards.

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tropicalparagon, Trinidad and Tobago

Lovely video. Very creative and I especially loved the occasional comments from the senders that came with postcards.

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wanderfrolics, United States of America

Very nice job! :-)

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riazkhan4880, India

Very interesting :) Lovely video.

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Jaaba, Sweden

well done

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nadaozhongguoxin, United States of America

I think my two favorite cards he showed were the Bulgarian shape/map card and the Lenin card! Amazing video!

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MisterPouf, Switzerland

Love it, thanks

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Nigella, Netherlands

Very nice! Well done!

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harrickson, United States of America

Well-done! Enjoyed your video creation!

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Emess, South Africa

Stunning.very impressive

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Hasip, Belgium

Very nice one :) :) :)

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Blogger, United States of America

Thank you for sharing this :D It was fun to watch!

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kugusch, Germany

If he hasn't received anything from AFrica yet, he can't put it in a project of HIS received cards....
It's a really awesome video...thanks for sharing!

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DorotheeSifi, Germany

That´s a great idea! Bravo, joze-post!

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moonlight-dancer, Germany

i love it! it captures so well what postcrossing is about :)

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svnnymoon, France

Awesome video! :)

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tulipan7, Croatia

Great video, I loved it... Makes me wish to go through all the cards I've received so far and collect similar trivia...

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Chris_Hunter, Germany

What a great video! This is how I feel when I open my letterbox just to find another Postcrossing card in it :)

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L-chan, Germany

That's truly beautiful! (:

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Anori, Germany

Great video!

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jenmac75, Germany

I really like the video.

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maleko, United States of America

That was magical.

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BarbSchmidt, United States of America

Just watching this puts a smile on your face!

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SonnieS, Germany

Super, great video, well done!!!!

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Roadrunner73, Germany

Wonderful.

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Tetsuko, Germany

Very charming. Love it!

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DeannaAng, United States of America

Beautiful and charming video! Perfectly sums up Postcrossing (:

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mounten, Italy

Great!!!Well done I love it Ciao

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rousita, Mexico

Thanks for sharing this very cute and fun video about postcards! I loved how Johannes included a little comment about some of the cards he has received. I loved it all! And of course, it's a way of sharing our love to paper mail :D

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nonamebabygirl2015, Canada

90 cents? Here in Canada it's $2.50 + $0.85 - $1.00 per postcard. Canada's post office should be ashamed.

The video was great though! =)

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jjkeim, United States of America

Thank you! What fun!

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friesendeern, Germany

Awesome video! I love it! ♥♥♥

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Loli-ts, Spain

All the charm and pleasure of postcrossing in 2:43 seconds! thank you Johannes, and postcrossing staff for sharing it (and doing it possible).

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songster, Finland

It is just great. I love it <3

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Soapqueen, Germany

What a pleasure!

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Mister1975, Germany

Thanks for the video. Yes 90c can connect the world :D

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Twinklestar85, Germany

Great... You should have been the winner :-) very creative

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Nummel, Germany

A great way of promoting our hobby and to share the idea of learning more about the world through postcards.

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42kg, Russia

Awesome video!

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LoveToCook, Netherlands

Just loved it!!!!!

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harpseal, Norway

Nice video, great work, Johannes :-)

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Kat_44, United States of America

That was fun! Thank you, Johannes, for sharing!!

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kamikm, United States of America

Wonderfully done!! :-D

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betslets, United States of America

It's too bad we in the Postcrossing community did not have a vote. Johannes is a winner in our book, for sure. How about an encore...I could watch more of the same video. Thanks for sharing.

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saji, Japan

I love it! :)

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pucky, Netherlands

Very well done, I like to see the real spirit in it!

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browntrout, Germany

He deserves an ambassador batch ;-)

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Flippie, Canada

I looooove it, Anneke /Flippie from Victoria BC

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