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If you’ve been following the numbers on the homepage, you know the 80,000,000 postcard will be registered soon… and if you’ve been around for awhile, you know what that means: it’s time to open the guessing game for this big Postcrossing milestone. Here is how it works:

Two Playmobil figures, a mail carrier and a seated person, are next to a wooden mailbox with letters. Text reads: 'Can you guess when postcard 80,000,000 will arrive?' and 'Place your best bet!'
Every member has a chance to submit a bet for the day and time on which they think the postcard number 80 million will be registered.
The bets need to be submitted on the contest page.

It should be easy: just choose a slot for the date and the minute you think postcard number 80,000,000 will be registered! You can have a look through Postcrossing’s statistics page if that helps… or maybe throw a dart at a calendar, or interpret some tea leaves — anything goes!

A collection of stationery prizes from papersisters, including postcards, stickers, a notebook, a rubber stamp, a pen, and washi tapes.

And naturally, we have some prizes as well, and this year it’s a veritable prize extravaganza! The 80 million guessing game is being sponsored by papersisters, who have very generously donated a bounty of stationery treasures for our winners:

Here are some rules we need to mention: each time slot can only be chosen by one single person, so the first postcrosser 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 80,000,000. Check the contest page for more details.

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. Good luck, everyone!

33 comments so far

Classic, Australia

I love this competition, I'm never close enough with my guesses but it's always fun to try! Some great prizes too! Good luck everyone :D

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greenskull, Russia

Wow!

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Ayam61, Netherlands

Wow....... always fun to participate.
The prizes to win are also great.

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Rainy0316, China

It seems interesting!Hoping my guesses will be close.

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TheHassFamily, United States of America

Very exciting! We placed our bet!

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wangbingbingbing, China

wow wow

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Lies76, Belgium

🤗 So exciting 📬 🎯 📝
good luck 🍀 to everyone, have fun 😀!

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Lilly7022, Germany

Yeah, I chose my time. Now still waiting for the news. Very exciting!

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Aguaroble, Lesotho

Greenskull should be very happy :)
Makes me want to send one more postcard, who knows, maybe it can be the 80 millionth?
Good luck to all!

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PeggyLoh, Singapore

Tried many times but nowhere near............good luck to the lucky ones... cheers.

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JonathanChua, Singapore

Gonna try again this time 80millionth....been off the target the last few times.....but will try just for the fun of it..........cheers.

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kugusch, Germany

Jeez, I remember sitting at my computer for hours and refreshing the page over and over while chatting in the forum, all of us excitingly waiting to hit that first million.
Now we're at 80! Amazing!!

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rhnewman, United States of America

10 Dec 2024

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Loli-ts, Spain

80.000.000 postcards... yes, yes, yessssss!!!!

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jjmedusa, United States of America

80 million postcards?! That's just amazing!!! Good luck to everyone who enters! :)

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Kustow, Russia

I think 30 december...

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johrose, Brazil

Eu aposto em 24/02 dia do meu nível rsrs

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gnomey_nol, Australia

Oooohh! Sounds fun and exciting!

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Arttatito11, Moldova

The whole population of the Earth is about 8 billion and we are waiting for the 8 million postcard! Very exciting!!!!

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suxies, Spain

Apuesto por el dia 26/12 a las 16:13
Que apostaís?

I bet on 12/26 at 16:13

What do you bet?

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paradonym, Germany

We're seeing 380-400k postcards each month with around 400k left, given that Germany is most active in December due to the Cards For Literacy program it's only a matter of a month or so.
Now a bit magic of when Germany and the US has it's typical evenings calculated to their percentage of cards on here - and that's why I'm guessing almost exactly one month from now... +/- 3 days.

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MerlinM, Germany

Wahoo! :-D I guess it will be shortly after New years eve.

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Flippie, Canada

I try to bit now we have wait....
And for how long with our Strike...on Canada Post....

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durtlskdi, United States of America

Haha I love this!

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Aileen93, Germany

Exciting 🤩, thank you for the cool idea 🫶🏽

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Demmi, Romania

Hoping my guesses will be very-very close :)

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MelOfBacchus, Australia

Good luck everyone!

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Everjung, Germany

I think on the 11th december

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2002-Heidi, Germany

This idea is very good. The best shall be the winner of that game.
In my whole life, I was not a winner in a game, maybe here...
Many greetings, Lisa

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meanders, United States of America

Just curious: Can you project when we get to 100 million? Ballpark estimate is good enough!

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Kat29, France

Je dirais le 3 janvier 2025 à 14h43. 😉

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Luziaceleste, Brazil

Wow, what an impressive amount of happyness spread all around. Postcrossing definetly rocks!

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Zehner, Germany

27. 12. 2024

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