Postcrossing Blog

The day has come, when we finally announce the results of the book and postcard set giveaway we’ve been doing with the Accidentally Wes Anderson project for the past few months!

Hundreds of postcrossers participated, leaving comments or sending postcards to the AWA headquarters in New York, and we couldn’t be happier that so many of you decided to take part. We learned about soooooo many new places worthy of a detour or a full trip… 😍 Beauty lurks at every corner, it seems, if only one knows how to look for it!

So now, without further ado, here are the lucky winners, as chosen by Paulo’s script:

• 3 Accidentally Wes Anderson books: LeslieMN, hola_olaaa, and evenin
• 2 special postcard books, signed by Wes Anderson: D2M2 and MeldaTaspika
• 15 postcard books: thechargingsky, unicorn11, paulinexong, HankHanover, alaskanabbey, elisaserretm, Acorny, BarneyFamily, Mia71321, mounten, IzzyB, jm1122, AdelaisLili, Eden_Reliure, and sights.

Super congratulations to all the winners! 🎉

Because they want to see their new postcards travel around the world to as many hands as possible, the nice people at AWA are running a discount for postcrossers, in which you get 30% off when buying a set of postcards. Just use promo code POSTCROSSING at checkout to receive 30% off your postcards order. A special “Snail Mail” collectible sticker is included in all orders! 😍

And last but not least, thank you for all of your participations and enthusiasm! We hope you will all go out and explore this world we live in, with all its quirkinesses and special places, worthy of a movie scene! Make sure to snap some photos and upload them to the AWA map, to pass them along to other intrepid explorers.

We assume everyone has heard of Wes Anderson’s movies by now. From The Grand Budapest Hotel to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, his delightfully quirky visuals and unique storytelling perspective have made him a beloved filmmaker and a cinema icon. You can always immediately tell when you’re watching one of his movies, sometimes by a single frame! There are places out there in the real world that look a lot like a scene from one of his movies, often a single peculiar house, an ornate façade or just a color scheme that evokes another era…

Enter the Accidentally Wes Anderson project (or AWA for short). They’re a community of adventurers with an appreciation for these fine idiosyncratic sceneries that play out all over the world, collecting them and displaying them on the AWA website and Instagram account. The result is a carefully curated map and galleries featuring hundreds of delightful travel-worthy locations. Anyone can submit a new location to the map, so it’s a good idea to always keep an eye out for any structure, façade or surroundings with a special symmetry that moves the imagination.

Photo by Madeleine Ryan

As fans of trips to unusual places, we love browsing these and bookmark spots for a future vacation or roadtrip. In particular, we like discovering new mail-related places, and the nice people at AWA have put together a snail mail collection that makes us very excited indeed! Check out North Hobart Post Office, Saigon’s Central Post Office, or the Post Office at the end of the world… Don’t those look like they’re all worth a visit?

The AWA community has been going strong for 5 years, and in the meantime, a book featuring the best of these locations has been published, with 500,000 copies sold around the world in 7 languages. Now, a cool postcard book joins the collection as well, featuring 26 of these special places. We’re super excited about it, and have thus partnered with them to offer a few of these to postcrossers! 🎉

There are 20 prizes in total to be won: 3 books, 2 super special copies of the postcard book signed by Wes Anderson himself, and 15 standard postcard books! There are 2 ways to participate in this fantastic giveaway, and you can choose one or both of them:

• You can explore the AWA map, and then leave a comment on this blog post to let us know which place there you’d like to travel to the most;

• If you have a postcard of a place that you think would fit right into one of Wes Anderson’s movies, send it to the AWA with a message and your Postcrossing username (written clearly)! The address is:

  Giveaway’s deadline is past, so the address has been removed.

  For this raffle, postcards entries will count double.

Because this giveaway involves postcard submissions, we’re giving it an extended deadline, so that everyone has time to dig around for nice postcards and mail them. The deadline for their arrival is January 15 February 15, and which point we’ll pick the winners and announce them on a separate blog post. Good luck everyone! We can’t wait to see the locations you share! 😍