Postcrossing Blog

Postcards go hand in hand with stamps, so it’s no surprise that many postcrossers are also stamp lovers.

A postcrosser (who wishes to remain anonymous) used to collect stamps throughout childhood and still keeps a great appreciation for many of the beautiful images on them. So they decided to create some postcards with the most beautiful stamps available in their collection!

The result is a selection of beautiful cards, featuring detailed stamps from days gone. From Monaco to Sweden, Chad to Ivory Coast, these stamp-postcards will surprise and delight you.

This member generously offered us a couple of packs of stamp-postcards, which we’re giving away today.

To win one of them, leave a comment below telling us about your favourite stamp (leave a link to the image, if you can find it!). Why is it special to you, or what attracts you in it?

In a week, we’ll close the comments and draw two winners, who’ll each win a pack of 14 different stamp-postcards. Good luck!

You did it: 10,000,000 registered postcards! Wow, that is… a lot of postcards! :)

Thank you once again for all the postcards you send, and for your continuing support to this project!

In case you are curious (and we know you are!), lucky postcard 10 million was sent by member maru_jp in Japan, and was registered today, at 16:56 by huckabiene in Germany.

The member who got closer to the correct time was Solkadot! Congratulations, you’re the winner of our 10 million contest, and you will receive a pack of 120 postcards, from MOO!

Both the sender and the receiver of the lucky 10 millionth postcard will also receive a pack of 20 postcards and a stickerbook!

We’d like to give a big thank you to MOO, who sponsored this contest and showered our participants with gifts!

And now… on to the next million, shall we?

Today we’re announcing a different kind of contest! Some of you might have noticed we’re fast approaching the 10 million received postcards milestone. We’re quite excited about it, and to celebrate this achievement, we’re having a guessing game!

It goes like this: every member has a chance to bet on the day and time on which the postcard number 10 million will be registered. The user with the closest guess gets the prize: a coupon for 120 postcards, an awesome offer from MOO!

All you have to do is go to the 10 million postcard page, and place your bet!

Each time slot can only be chosen by one person, so the first user to pick that slot gets to keep it. You can change it at a later stage, if you want, but only from the available time slots left. We will close the bets when there are 1,500 postcards left to postcard 10,000,000. There are some more rules, which you can see on the contest page.

So what are you waiting for? Give it a go, and good luck! :)

I’m sure you’re anxious to hear about the results for the House of St Junior giveaway! Here are Scott and Neil, the inventors of the postframe, drawing the names out of their magic helmet:

And the lucky postcrossers are…

…CamJP, Fiona89 and SecretSquirrel1904!

Congratulations to the 3 winners, and as always, thank you to everyone who participated!

We’ll be back this weekend with another giveaway – stay tuned! :)

You’ve done it again! :) Five million received postcards in five years, pretty neat, hum?

We know you’re all eager to know the details so here we go…

The five millionth postcard received through Postcrossing traveled from Elefantus in Italy to ployploy in Thailand. Lovely card, isn’t it?

Nobody guessed the right countries (from Italy to Thailand), so we’ll split the surprise between Elefantus and ployploy – congratulations!

PS – We apologize for the sudden drop in the countdown numbers towards the end – we had some unexpected cache issues that caught us by surprise, and didn’t allow us to make the magic screenshot we usually do on these events. Bummer!