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!

Yay! It’s our birthday today! Time does fly when you’re having fun, eh? Every single year, we’re in awe of what this (once) tiny project has become, and how many lives it has touched. We’re immensely grateful for your kind words, enthusiasm and continued support throughout these 7 years! :)

We know you’re dying to know which videos we’ve picked… so here it goes, in no particular order:

Giacatalan, you have some great video skills! :)

LeishaCamden, your words mean a lot to us!

And Ejsirk, what a nice stop-motion video – we loved to see you jump!

Congratulations! The three of you will receive your prizes from MOO and Postcard Locker!

This was a very tough choice… we were seriously impressed by all the nice videos that many of you took the time to make, and had a lot of fun (and even got a little teary-eyed here and there) checking them out. You rock!

Now it’s time to send some postcards, blow some candles and eat a piece of cake! Please do have one too! :)

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!

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?