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Blog > When is the 70 millionth postcard going to arrive?

posted by meiadeleite

13 Dec, 2022

It’s almost time! The 70,000,000 postcard might already be on its way to the lucky recipient, so now is the perfect moment to open the guessing game for this big Postcrossing milestone. Here is how it works:

Two small toy mail carriers stand in front of stacks of postcard books.

Every member has a chance to submit a bet for the day and time on which they think the postcard number 70 million will be registered.
The bets need to be submitted on the contest page.

Pretty straightforward, right? Just choose a slot for the date and the minute you think lucky postcard number 70,000,000 will be registered according to your gut feelings. Feel free to have a look through Postcrossing’s statistics page if that helps, or maybe ask your local fortune-teller for a hint!

And as has become tradition in these events, we have some nice prizes too! The postcrosser whose bet is the closest to the exact minute when postcard number 70 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!

Here are some ground 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 70,000,000. Check the contest page for more details.

Good luck, everyone! Keep sending postcards and refining your guesses, and keep an eye on the counter on the frontpage of the website, to know how many postcards still need to be registered… any day now!

tags: milestone, million

40 comments so far

Great! I was waiting for the contest to start.

Mosshumla on 13 Dec, 2022

I love this guessing games, although it is so hard to get it right :-)

reiselustig on 13 Dec, 2022

interesting moment

kojep on 13 Dec, 2022

Exciting times ahead... what to pick though!

Classic on 13 Dec, 2022

That is amazing！

Mavis02 on 13 Dec, 2022

…pretty amazing when you think how much a piece of card stock can make a sender and receiver’s day x 70 million times so much brighter.
One person really can make a difference..

mdmsamm on 13 Dec, 2022

Exciting! I mail out a handfull of cards today!!

HM on 13 Dec, 2022

17 décembre 2022

fafaoussama on 13 Dec, 2022

Amazing and so exciting!

Aguaroble on 13 Dec, 2022

@fafaoussama You'll need to register your guess on the 70 million page, at https://www.postcrossing.com/70million — it's no use posting it here on the blog! :)

meiadeleite on 13 Dec, 2022

I’m sending all postcards for season’s greetings this year. I’m up to 13 so far, but only half way through my list of friends and family. I wish I could register them, and I wish all postcrossers many postcards in your mailboxes in 2023. May the best woman win.

Verabrady on 13 Dec, 2022