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A few years ago, we accidentally heard about a pub in Bournemouth in the UK auspiciously called “60 Million Postcards” and thought “Wouldn’t that be a great place to throw a party when Postcrossing reaches 60 million postcards?!” And then… you know… The pandemic came and everything changed, naturally. We’re a little sad we can’t fulfill this silly plan, but not all is lost — we can still have our traditional milestone guessing game!

60 million postcards!

If you weren’t around for one of these before, the idea is simple:

Every member has a chance to submit a bet for the day and time on which they think the postcard number 60 million will be registered. The bets need to be submitted on the contest page.

Easy, right? Just place a bet for the minute you think lucky postcard number 60,000,000 will be registered according to your own predictions. Feel free to have a look through Postcrossing’s statistics page if that helps, or maybe crack a fortune cookie (or some eggs?) to come up with a good time slot — anything goes!

And naturally, there will be prizes! The postcrosser whose bet is the closest to the exact minute when postcard number 60 million is registered will win a box set of 100 postcards, and the 6 next best guesses (before or after the registering time) will receive a pack of 20–30 postcards each. 🎉 Hurray!

Some rules: each time slot can only be chosen by one single person, so the first person to pick that slot gets to keep it. You can change it at a later stage if you’d like, but only from the available time slots left. The bets will be automatically closed when there are 1000 postcards left to postcard 60,000,000. Check the contest page for more details.

So, give it your best shot… but be sure to do it soon as good slots are usually taken quickly. Keep sending postcards, and good luck everyone!

97 comments so far

Merepeer, Netherlands

12 January. 12:45 PM

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greenskull, Russia

I ❤❤❤ Postcrossing!

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YUmiko1996, China

nice

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elynth, Russia

🍀🍀🍀🍿

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jeaber, France

What a great idea!

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fu072330song, China

OK😁😁😁😁😁Looking forward to

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suxies, Spain

18 jan

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Ginny_Weasley, United States of America

Fun!
I guessed January 22, 10:22 pm.

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eyselbaer, Germany

At the beginning of this year, German postcrossers already reached the mark of 10 million postcards sent.
Hooray !!!!

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Way80, United States of America

Jan-19 11:35 am est

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SuziH, Canada

I guess January 19 at 10:00 PDT

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clutsche, Germany

It will shure be January 16th !!!

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figtrees, United Kingdom

What a wonderfully absurd name for a pub! 😃

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VilDay, Russia

Hello! I think, it'll be 18 january at 15:22 PDT :)

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Luziaceleste, Brazil

Love these contests, but mostly the figures, so amazing for ten years ago... And even during pandemic times we keep the pace. Hurray!

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MarianneSF, Philippines

January 13, 2021 at 14;37 GMT

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DJ2108, Germany

14.01.2021 21:08 Uhr

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Alla19, Russia

19.01 at 15.00 GMT

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TAISIYASMIRNOVA, Belarus

23 января.23-23

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rsbellon, United States of America

Happy New Year, 2021 To All Postcrossing Folks, and All My Best To All Of You. From My Door To Yours!!!! I predict, January 21, 2021.

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candyflosscurls, United Kingdom

I used to live in Bournemouth - and went to that pub quite a lot!

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MarAll, Russia

Hi everyone, I would like to go freediving. And I really want to go to Kamchatka, see the volcanoes.

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violent_waste, Russia

23 January 11:20

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RalfH, Germany

You can stilm have the party when Germsny reaches the ID DE-60000000 - that cannot take very long - or you ask the pub owner to change the name to 70000000 postcards and celebrate when that number is reached.

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ALFAVIT, Russia

I like this game. January 25, a little light 6.00 :)

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Beat4953, Netherlands

At 17 January, I like it very much👍

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mounten, Italy

Hi to everyone 60 Mil. what a number!!!!!!

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Ejderha, Netherlands

Wow, another awesome milestone!
I have never been lucky with this Milestone Guessing Game but I've decided to use my birthday and a very appropriate time slot:
9 February 20:21.
Good luck everybody and Happy New Year! (^_^)

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mounten, Italy

My bet is 18th January 9:30am

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Demmi, Romania

...wow, what a Number!
>> my guess is 13 January at 13:31 <<
Happy Postcrossing and Happy New Year!

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Streiflicht, Germany

14.01. 14 o clock

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vara81, Germany

21. January at 17:35

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Bogah, Russia

20.01.21 в 18.02

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Liudmyla_Kh, Ukraine

My bet: January 21, 2021 in 21:00 :)

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Inselfreundin, Germany

I say on the 22.01.2021 at 5:00 pm.

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jabuka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

January 26 2021 @ 7:00 pm

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elazbaska, Poland

January 11 2021 at 10 am

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QueenOfNeedlework, Germany

23. Januar 2021, 11.46 Uhr

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Ivy_Cai, United States of America

23 Jan 2021 00:01

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betslets, United States of America

I've participated in this game for several of the previous milestones...only came "close" a couple of times to the actual guesses, However, it's also fun to see which Postcrosser sent and which Postcrosser received that upcoming awesome "can't believe it's the 60 millionth" postcard.
We're all winners with Postcrossing.

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emoffdayz, United States of America

20 Jan 2021 1:20

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kynica95, Russia

13 января в 16.15

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Rokse, Lithuania

On 13 Jan, 2021

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Vetrikodi, India

On 20 feb 2021

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Loppan88, Sweden

January 26th 2021 at 5.30 PM GMT

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angel_mira88, Russia

Hi, everybody. My date-21.01.2021.Beautiful numbers, aren't they?

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Amanita-Muscaria, Germany

I bet for January 13th, 2021, at 13:13 UTC. 🍀📬📮💌

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SashaSolovyeva, Russia

21 January 20:45

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Frohnatur_73, Germany

17.01. - 23:59

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Jaroslavna13, Russia

26 January 2021, 13:13.

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Phibatola, Greece

29th of January 18:45

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Enimoreh_Nargreg, Taiwan

23 January 2021 5:19

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BeckyS, United States of America

That's a lot of postcards!

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hellokathy, Germany

My guess is January 23 3:37 p.m.

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meiadeleite, Portugal

I hope you're all posting your guesses on the contest page (https://www.postcrossing.com/60million) otherwise they won't be counted! 😅

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AnMiSa, Germany

So great to be a part of this family!

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MailFromNanning, China

20 Jan, 2021; 07:30 p.m.

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Flippie, Canada

- HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE -
"I can't wait to wine my price".....hihi!

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Kewl, Philippines

25 January 2021, 7:30 GMT

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jillie45, Netherlands

19 January 2021, 22.00

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Yulia_Vas, Russia

Happy New Year! Let's the party started! :)
Good luck everyone!

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depechman, Russia

☺nice

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AKS, Finland

January 27 at 10:00 am (GMT)

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Lizoshek, Russia

January 25 10.00

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Diana12113, Russia

January 28 12:30

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Ursula_Switzerland, Switzerland

17.Januar 17.17

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HM, Netherlands

I go on full speed sending to influence the contest!!!

Actually we all do influence. And a smiley for the fun.

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Kursant, Russia

14.1.2021
12:37 GMT

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Gen24, United States of America

Awesome opportunity, ty!

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Psming123, Canada

Jan 18th, 2021 8:00 EST

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Luluz, Finland

Jan 21th 2021 10.15 GMT

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NikkiMartin, Canada

Jan 20 5:20pm

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ukhalanthar, United Arab Emirates

20 jan 2021 - 21:00 hrs

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Bogah, Russia

25.01.2021 -15:23

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kittymailsnny, United States of America

today! :)

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InsanePaladin32, United States of America

January 16th 2021, 1:00 CT

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-Katie, United Kingdom

I guessed in February but maybe I should have said January :D

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univers, Türkiye

23 January, 23:23, (GMT-5)

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Rokse, Lithuania

2021m february16d

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reiselustig, Germany

@Katie you still can change your bet!

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coquelicot24, France

4 countries (DE, US, RU and NL) sent 50% of the postcards.
Well done to them, but the other regions must take action to keep the international character of postcrossing.
Thanks for postcrosser from Åland !

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Marinass, Russia

23 January 2021, 22:50

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amys2025, United States of America

February 2nd 2021, 8:42 PM (20:42 PM)

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dennyluk, China

February 7, 2021; 18:00

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SonneErde, Germany

22.01.2021 17:23

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editakn, Lithuania

January 25, 2021

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coleerbao, Morocco

26 january 18:12

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editakn, Lithuania

24 January, 2021

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pina_colada, Russia

25 January 23:59

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katjushkaa, Finland

24.01.2021 19.25

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Marius83, Lithuania

04:24, ((UTC+2) Eastern European Time (EET)).24 January, 2021.

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Leslyn, United States of America

26 Jan 21 @ 00:01

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Misiasio21, Canada

There are currently less than 1,800 left, so the postcard number 60,000,000 will be definitely registered today!

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Shashidar, India

60 million cards achieved 🎉✨🎊

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Lies76, Belgium

Hurrayyy ! Amazing :-).
Around 11.19 Belgian time... Finally after hours of excitement. :-D

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rsbellon, United States of America

Contatulations PostCrossing, and Congratulations Everyone!! Good News to Hear. Thank You!!

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raichiaki, Japan

Congratulations 🥳

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