Postcrossing Blog

As you might have noticed, Postcrossing’s eight birthday is coming up soon… which means, it’s time for our annual birthday party… and a little contest! :)

Eight candles by Tim Ellis on Flickr.

This year, we thought we’d hand over the reins to YOU!

Your mission, if you wish to accept it, is to make something that celebrates Postcrossing. Bake a Postcrossing cake, knit a scarf in the project’s colours, skywrite the website’s name in the sky… surprise us! Big or small, anything goes – the limit is your imagination! :)

You have until Saturday 13th 11:59pm (GMT) to send us a photo of your masterpiece to 8birthday@postcrossing.com. We’ll publish the results in a week – and of course, there will be surprise gifts to the best ones!

As an example, have a look at the delicious cookies our friend Cecília baked some time ago:

Neat, right? :) So now it’s your turn… rally up your friends, roll up your sleeves and make something! We cannot wait to see what you come up with!

Yay! The eagerly anticipated postcard number 15 million has been registered, and another significant milestone has been reached! Did you notice how quickly this one came? Just earlier this year we were celebrating 10 million postcards, and then… it seems like we just blinked for a second and bam! 15 million! :)

If an image is worth a thousand words, allow us to illustrate the project’s unbelievable growth since its start:

I guess we all really like postcards, eh? :D

Well, enough of that – we know you’re all curious to find out which postcard got the honour, so here it is: postcard DE-1800737, sent by member schwarzer-mann in Germany, and registered at 13:46 (UTC) by limoda in Italy. This is a treat in itself, but just to make it sweeter, both the sender and the receiver will receive a surprise gift from MOO: a pack of 20 postcards and a stickerbook for each of them!

Member kefjo was the big winner of our 15 million contest, since she correctly guessed the exact time that postcard was registered – congratulations! You’ve won a pack of 80 postcards and 2 sticker books from MOO!

Another six lucky postcrossers had the next best guesses! tsaga and Sakura_Students, you’ll get a pack of postcards from Natuurlijkefoto.nl, partalciemre and mandy1804, yours will come from MinorPostcards.fi, and finally grie and erikdeg – your pack is from PostcardWorld.eu's collection. Congrats!

On top of that, as a special treat to all postcrossers for reaching this milestone (and for a limited time), MOO is offering free shipping to all their new customers – enjoy it while it lasts! :)

Once again, thank you all for each and every postcard that you send, and for your continuing support to this project. A big thank you also to our team of volunteers, who help us run the project everyday – and last but not least, to all our lovely sponsors: MOO, PostcardWorld.eu, MinorPostcards.fi and Natuurlijkefoto.nl

Since the new year is about to start, we’d like to grab this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy New Year… with lots of postcards!

Last week we introduced you to Christine’s postcards, and gave you a chance to win some of them in a fantastic giveaway. Hundreds of you participated by leaving a comment, and we bet you’re anxious to know who got one of the postcard sets… but first, here’s a word from Christine herself:

Dear postcrossers,
I was overwhelmed by the fantastic response on the By Kris Give away. I congratulate the winners! To say thank you to everybody else that did not win: if you place an order this week in my etsy shop, I will charge NO shipping costs. Just use the promo code: FREESHIPPING.
Happy Postcrossing!

Christine/ By Kris

Sweet! So without further ado, here are the 10 lucky winners: Iefonnuh, Saouri, fory, zphyrs, Linni, Hildegarde, ParallelSouls, Sisko1, WeepingWillows and red_sun. Congratulations! You’ll be receiving an email from us shortly!

A huge thank you to Christine for sponsoring the giveaway, and also to everyone who participated!

When Christine (aka Chriz) joined Postcrossing back in 2009, she would had never guessed where it would lead her. She loved postcards but quickly discovered that she also really liked to make her own cards, especially through collages…

Everyone seemed to like receiving her special made creations, so she decided to print them and open a webshop! Things were going well and half a year later, a publisher found her cards on a local bookstore and got in touch with a business proposal. These days, By Kris cards are sold all over the Netherlands (and also abroad), in giftstores and bookshops, both online and offline!

In her own words:

I think it’s amazing how one step can lead to another. Yes, it was scary and yes it was exciting, but I learned to believe in myself and not to be afraid of challenges.

Christine says Postcrossing brought a lot of good things to her, and so she’s happy to give something back – by offering 10 sets (of 10 postcards each) to 10 lucky postcrossers! :)

To win one of these packs, visit the By Kris shop, and leave a comment below, letting us know which card is your favourite! We’ll pick 10 random winners on Monday next week. Good luck!

On July 14th, it will be Postcrossing’s 7th birthday… and a birthday means a party! Are you up to some birthday goodies? :)

Your mission, if you wish to accept it, is to make a short video, telling or showing the world why you like Postcrossing. Put your imagination to work, and surprise us!

Put it online, and leave a comment below with a link to it until July 13th, by midnight UTC. There will be prizes for the best ones!

We look forward to seeing your creative videos!