It’s less than one week until World Postcard Day, and we can feel those pens getting a little antsy in anticipation… Are we all ready for the big day? 😍 Even if you are not quite fully ready yet, there’s still time to make this the best World Postcard Day yet!
Just like last year, we’re keeping the maximum limit of 10 postcards for each postcrosser to send out on October 1st. We do this because we only have so many addresses available on any given day, and we risk running out of them. :( So, how does it work? If you only have a couple of slots available, you’ll be able to send a couple of postcards. If you have 5, you can request 5 addresses. But if you have 10 or more slots open, you’ll only be able to send 10 postcards on October 1st. Remember that you have to send one postcard on World Postcard Day in order to receive the special “WPD badge” when that card gets registered… but you don’t need to send your maximum allowance. Please be mindful of others and of the limited number of addresses available. 🙏😅
That said, we really encourage everyone to send postcards to people beyond Postcrossing who might not be expecting them: your faraway friends and relatives, the children in your family, your favorite school teachers, the hardworking fire brigade, people in your local nursing home, someone whose work you admire in your community… Anyone who could use some cheering up or support is a good candidate to receive a postcard too! If you have good suggestions for potential postcard recipients, leave them in the comments — we’d love to know whom you’re mailing your cards to on this special day.
Dinah over at The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society suggested connecting sister cities on World Postcard Day, by sending a few postcards to your town’s twinned places. It’s a nice way to do some cultural exchange and bring distant cities together through postcards!
There are lots of Postcrossing meetups taking place a bit all over the world — more than 100 planned so far! Geocaching is also joining the festivities this year, encouraging its members to attend gatherings between September 29 and October 5 in order to receive a special World Postcard Day–themed souvenir. With so many events, it’s likely there is one close to many of you out there… so do take a look! This could be your opportunity to meet some friendly peeps who also love coming home to a postcard in their mailbox.
Another way you can participate is by taking some postcards to your local library, and talking them into offering these to patrons on October 1st! I’ve done this with my own library, and they were quite enthusiastic about the idea. And if you are in a school, remember that this is a good day to use our lesson plan (available in several languages) to teach a class about postcards, stamps and mail in general. Other ideas or photos of activities you might organize are always welcome! You can share them on this forum topic.
Finally, don’t forget that the classic dish for World Postcard Day is ravioli — they look like tiny postage stamps! Consider picking some up (or even making them!) before October 1st, so you’re ready to enjoy the day with a delicious twist.
We hope you have an amazing World Postcard Day, full of happiness, connections, and plenty of postcards! Let’s make it unforgettable and bring smiles to as many faces as possible!
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This will be my first WPD, can't wait! Will be sending many cards out this year!
I got the WPD badge last year, and it was my first year in postcrossing. I have reserved two slots for this year. Eagerly waiting for Oct 1 :)
I'm so ready for this amazing day. Thank you for sharing this information with us. I had no idea what exactly this was all about. Now that I know I will spend a few hours sending out postcards on October 1st.
I was able to pick up free postcards last week in Maine ( USA) at the welcome center.
Namaste 🙏 Gail Bacon
Excited to participate in my first WPS! I saved one adres specifically for the event. I hope more become available before the event starts.
since coronatime my husband and I have (24/7) libraries in our garden with about 400 books in them to lend for free // kind people donated enough books to change those collections regularly // + each 3 months we organize a themed-writingcontest for adults and children // at WPD: people can take cards for free at our cupboards: all gotten by kind organisations like those who protect or rescue wild animals or pets that are threatened, abandoned or in danger + the lokal weekly papers and websites published our annoucement = WPD can be joined in that way also by people with less money in their pocket :-)
Looking forward to a New Jersey WPD meetup with old and new friends!!
Enjoy everyone!!📮
After reading this article, I think I will go through my address book and send to those friends and relatives that I usually send holiday cards too. And, I'm saving 5 slots for my first WPD here on Postcrossing.
This will be my second WPD, but last year I was too new when October rolled around. I am so excited to participate this year and will also be sending cards to family, friends and how about co-workers.
Have fun everyone!
I've been looking forward to it for a long time
Can't wait...
Waiting for the launch!
I'm looking forward to this year. I have all the WPD badges so far and hope to add to my collection. Hope to have all ten slots open on October the 1st.
Looking forward to it. 😊 Had to smile about the Ravioli thing. Will send postcards to people here and family and friends and the lady who does a lot for others in our town. 😊 Have a great day, everybody ❤️
This will be my first Postcrossing WPD and I am so excited! Knowing ravioli is the classic dish for WPD made me smile, it will definitely be served in this house October 1. ❤️
P.S. I would not have been prepared for WPD if not for a wonderful postcrosser who had suggested I keep a few slots open for it. I’m so grateful for that!
In addition to my Postcrossing allotment, family, and friends around the globe, I'm planning on sending a card to the USPS Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee saying how much I'm looking forward to the future U.S. Postcrossing stamp!
Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee
475 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Room 3300
Washington, DC 20260-3501
P.S. See the recent update at https://community.postcrossing.com/t/usps-will-consider-a-usa-postcrossing-commemorative-stamp/433253/68
@dutchgranny that sounds lovely!
@sand2sand, great update, I'll happily send them a card.
I will be sending cards to the various people I've recruited to postcrossing and others I'm hoping to recruit. :)
I will be attending an event in Zurich, Switzerland on Oct 1 and then in Balatonfüred, Hungary on Oct 5. I'm excited about the celebrations!
Thanks for sharing all the fantastic stories!
I'm so excited!
While reading about the libraries I got the idea to stop at the local public book shelve in town to drop some of my postcards and also leave a note to let others know about the WORLD POSTCARD DAY! I have some neat flyer about Postcrossing too. I might catch some curious book-lovers to write a postcard than. 😍
It will be my first WPD and I'm very excited, I've already separated postcards and special stickers for that day, I hope to be able to send them to incredible people, I'm very excited. I'm open to direct swaps for that day too :)
Hi! It's my first WPD as well. I don't have any slots available. Will I still be able to send some out or sign up for more? Thanks!
Last year, I connected around 20 schools overseas with English schools to send cards to each other on WORLD POSTCARD DAY which was around 600 people! This year, I am scaling back a bit with just 3 schools and one library! I am going into one school to do a Postcard Workshop with them and then a Saturday morning in my local library writing postcards with everyone! And this year, I am attending my first ever Postcrossing meet-up in Corfe Castle, Dorset which is very exciting! Photos will follow! Marjorie
Looking forward for the meetup. It is always so nice to share our love for postcards and for Postcrossing with friends. <3
I'm excited to making someone's mailbox happy on October 1st!
So cool! Our first WPD ever!
I am so excited!!!!!
I am so happy to have postcards and stamps already waiting for their journey to the world.
I hope I remember this year… in the last two years I saved one slot for the 1st of October but then I forgot to send! 😅 I really want the badge haha
I'm already looking forward to the WPD. On this day, I will select particularly beautiful cards and use special decorative stamps on the postcards.
It´s my husband´s birthday on Oct. 1st so will have 2 things to celebrate! ;-)
Hopefully will find time to write cards then!
Hola, para enviar una postal el dia 1, el sistema me facilita una dirección para poderla enviar?
Perdonar la pregunta, pero soy nuevo.
Love this day, the enthusiasm in the community and the joy of writing postcard messages to people all over the planet; friends, family, members of the Postcrossing community, and some messages of support and cheer to people I don't really know. So far, 50 are written and ready to go, with more planned to write in time for October 1st. And, ... the *amazing* postal staff at the local post office are exercising their wrists to do nice hand-cancellations on every card on October 1st. So grateful.
Saving one slot for WPD!!! It'll be my first and I'm really looking forward to it :)
It would be really nice if we could receive one free slot for the WPD - all my slots are full now, and I'm really not sure that any of the postcards will make it in time :( I've been doing WPD for three years now, this will be my fourth - it will be a shame if I have to miss it.
I need to set a reminder! 😊
I can't wait for this day! I have already prepared postcards and stamps :D
I cant wait for WPD! This will be my first time! 😀
I'm already getting ready for my first WPD! So excited!
It's very sad that I won't be able to participate in the WPD.
It would have been my first time....
But, unfortunately, there are no free slots. Some users to whom I sent postcards do not register them and have not visited the site for a very long time....
Bin ich mal gespannt.... heuer das erste mal...
This will be my 2nd Postcard Day and have 6 cards ready to go and 6 addresses ready to draw on 1st October. I have made custom stickers so the cards look different!
It's my second WPD with really postcards not letters, as I was penpaling last year and not rejoined postcards yet, so I had sent just 1 letter that 'mentioned' World postcard day.
Today I'm just about to mail 2 handmade postcards to family members so they reach them in time for Oct 1st. I'll remember to parttake within Postcrossing next year with sending Postcrossing members postcards. And perhaps I'll make ravioli Oct 1st.
Good👍
It would be great to vica versa receive several additional slots to send more postcards on Postcard Day! Only for this day. Now I have to stop sending postcards 2 weeks before the Day to be able to send postcards on it. And this means my address will not be given to anyone on this day :( but I do want to receive Postcard Day postcards!
I don't understand the 10 limit. Because when I ask for an adress, someone Else got mine
I will be participating and I'm very excited! :)
Where can I get a special Word postcard day card?
Hi all - Apologies in advance, as I am new to World Postcard Day, even though I've been a member of Postcrossing since 2015 😅..... I currently have 7 slots available. I was hoping for clarification - If I want the "badge", does this mean I must bring my postcards to the mail office ON Oct. 1st to send them on that day? If so, and if I wanted to make out all the postcards I'm going to send ahead of time, can I still request an address now, and then mail them on Oct. 1st? I know it's probably not that complicated lol but for my own sanity, will someone please help me out here? Thanks !
I have slots available but all my travelling postcards have been traveling for over 41 days so I'm at 427 sent and 427 recieved. Nit sure if I will recieve a card or not. Post is so slow to some countries.
Every day is my World Postcard Day!
Thank you, POSTCROSSING, for your excellent service!
For me, all my friends in the world are very important.
Best greetings for all the members. You make every day LOVE allover the world. Thank you.
I totally understand the need for limits but it would have been nice to know the 10 address limit was coming back this year a bit further in advance. I have been checking the blogs for weeks now and there was no mention of it for 2024. I did find the blog post that said the 10 card limit backfired last year so that coupled with no mention of it in any 2024 post led me to believe it wasn't being implemented this year. And because they needed to be bought in advance to ensure delivery on time for 10/1, I already bought special WPD cards accordingly. Sigh. :-(
Still looking forward to taking part in the day and getting my 5th year WPD badge. :-)
I hope that 1 of my 10 traveling cards arrives before Tuesday. Otherwise, unfortunately, I miss WPD. Otherwise I can't send cards.
The World Postcard Day (1 October) and the World Post Day (9 October) are only 8 days apart. Why don't we combine these two days?
The Universal Postal Union is celebrating its 150th anniversary on 9 October 2024, and the World Postcard Day is 8 days before. Why don't we celebrate them together? Why don't we have one postcard for both the World Postcard Day 2024 and the 150th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union?
it's been a busy week..
I can't help myself to arrange 70 WPD cards swap this year !
but there are people who arrange 100-150 swap, can't believe it 😃
I can't wait.......to start.
So does it mean that one can only send a postcard if they already have a free slot? Or are there extra slots for the WPD given to the postcrossers? The wording is very confusing...
Hi everyone. Last year I was able to send 8 cards on World Postcrossing Day and all except one of them was registered BUT I never got any stamps???? I will have 5 to send tomorrow and wonder if its worth it if I'm not going to get a stamp anyway.
Been on postcrossing for nine years and always forget to send a postcard on wpd. Not this year I won’t. 😜
Took a stack of postcards and stamps over to my son's 3rd grade teacher. She promised to have a lesson on the topic tomorrow, write some cards to family members or friends, and send them off together! Luckily the post office is just around the corner.
Myself, I'm trying some of the handmade tips found on this very blog, but my crafting abilities may let me down somewhat. I suppose I'll send my first attempts only to closest friends who wouldn't mind and consent to that 0.o
This will be my first WPD,I can't wait! Postcards are get ready now!
HAPPY WPD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is my first WPD! Only 1 slot open 😢, but better than nothing. The postcard is ready and waiting to be written!
so happy to participate for the first time tomorrow!! luckily have one slot open. i'm ready to send my first WPD card and eat ravioli!! :) happy WPD everyone <3
Will there be a limit this year on how many addresses we can get to send postcards on WPD?
Yup I'm all pumped up! Any minutes/seconds from now...Happy World Postcard Day everyone. 😁
Happy WPD 🥳
Didn't realize until now that the 10 card limit is still in place... Wanted to send a bit more
1 October "International Postcard Day".
1 October is also "International Music Day". It was officially designated on October 1, 1975, with the goal of uniting people from all walks of life through their diverse artistic expressions, particularly music, which symbolizes equality as it resonates with everyone.
And, and, and 1 October is designated by the United Nations as "International Day of Older Persons"
I celebrate all three with postcards. Join me! Colin
PS: It is also "Bat Appreciation Day"😁
Bad news: The postcard limit has been used up :(
I currently have seven postcards from my trip, why don’t I have more slots? How can I request them?
perdonar mi ignorancia, pero alguien puede decirme como registrar el envio de hoy y como se escoge la dirección de envio?
Gracias,
Alfonso
This year I am again writing my postcards for WPD!
I love it :-)
Happy World Postcard Day!! Enjoy ;)
WPD. What will happen first? One of my WPD cards is registered / will I register a WPD card from another user before one of my own WPD Cards Arrive? Can't wait.
We sent 7 postcards on WPD this year! Now, we are anxiously awaiting which one of the seven will be registered first. Will we get a WPD official card this year? Only time will tell.
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