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Type of site | Project website |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Postcrossing Lda |
| Created by | Paulo Magalhães |
| URL | postcrossing |
| Registration | Yes |
| Launched | July 14, 2005[1] |
Postcrossing is an online project for people to exchange postcards with other project members globally. The project's tag line is "send a postcard and receive a postcard back from a random person somewhere in the world!"[2] The name Postcrossing is a union of the words postcard and crossing, and its origin "is loosely based on the Bookcrossing site".[3]
Members can get details of other randomly selected members to send a postcard to, then receive cards from other random members. Official exchanges between the two members occur only once, but unofficial ongoing swaps between members are possible. As of January 2025[update], Postcrossing had over 805,000 members in 211 countries and territories,[4] and over 80 million registered postcards had been exchanged.[5]
- ^ "Postcrossing. History". Postcrossing.com. 2005-07-14. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
- ^ Magalhães, Paulo. "Postcrossing". Retrieved 2009-01-01.
- ^ "Postcrossing - The Postcard Crossing Project". BBC H2G2. 2006-05-08. Retrieved 2009-01-01.
- ^ "Statistics – Members". Postcrossing. Archived from the original on 2025-01-17. Retrieved 2025-01-18.
- ^ "Statistics – Postcards". Postcrossing. Archived from the original on 2025-01-17. Retrieved 2025-01-18.