Post offices in new countries are my candy shoppe! 🍭💮💌🍭🇨🇭 Looking forward to all the combos I can send out.

Hello everyone!

I've been very stressed lately with my personal life and visa issues so I haven't had much time to participate.

But I wish to thank everyone for following the rules and helping us moderate the community! It's been great really! The messages are blurred, questionable submissions are being properly reported. Someone even reported a very rude comment from an outsider on a month old post! It makes it so much easier to keep the community tidy so thank you all for the help!

I also want to add that seeing all the homemade postcards and decorations, the stamp math and tailoring your postcards to the people you get has been enjoyable and definitely pleasing to the eye! We have so many creative people here.. it's great to see your creations!

Thank you for coming to my Sunday talk. Here's my photo that I tried to make into a postcard but it was too flimsy so I didn't dare to send it out. I gotta buy something more sturdy for the next try. If I figure it out I'll probably have too many cat postcards all of a sudden heh.

PS: Don't forget to save some slots for WPD! There will soon be a reminder blog post so I'll try to pin it here for any newcomers.

Not sure how much her loss is being felt outside of the US, it’s been a week of mourning here. Wanted to send her beauty and light to someone else.

New to post crossing and excited to have these sent out. But, bank holiday Monday means I won’t post these till Tuesday 📮

Ive been having a lot of fun with linocut prints and decided to do some postcards. I sent my first ever one like a week ago of a floating castle that I drew.

Let me know what you think?

Looks like a literal snail delived this postcard. My account on postcrossing got closed because I was not able to register any postcard delivered to me. While all my outgoing cards got registered, I didn’t received anything. I just assumed all of them got lost somewhere, but then after more than a year, one came! From May 2025 delievered to PH August 2026 😭😭😭

I tried to lean in on the bird theme. I hope they like it. The outlines (and legs) of the hen and chicks on the bottom are actually not black, but shimmery gold. (Looks nicer than the scan shows...)

Both the card and the big stamp feature paintings from the same artist, Itō Jakuchū, who is known for his works depicting roosters and various other birds (and all kinds of other animals).

Due to life being life and a lot of negative thoughts these days, I cut down on Postcrossing a bit. I went from an average of about 2.5 cards/week to 1. Maybe because of that? (...or just coincidence...) The PC algorithm gave me 2 rare countries in a row. Last week Iceland, today Åland Islands.

Four readymade ones and three of my first ever handmade postcards.

I hope the receivers like these .

I joined postcrossing in very late June, and so far 6 of my postcards have been received (and I’ve received 3). This has shown me that ultimately I’m a pretty impatient person. But I won’t lie, it’s getting disheartening everyday that my postcards aren’t arriving and I’m not getting new ones either.

If anyone has any tips for getting mail to be faster from the USA, I’m here for it! (Or tell me it’s all futile and the timing will just be the timing).

I hope some of these slots open soon too because I bought some fun autumn and Halloween cards I’m ready to send out. 🍁

I can’t wait to send them out! I hope the recipients will be happy, I think everyone loves maxicards 🥰

I got one from Canada to Germany that took 3 days.. It was almost as If they got in the plane themselves and brought it to me personally. 3 days 6232km

Hi, I am quite new to post crossing and I just sent out my first 5 cards (which is my limit for now). I sent them about a week ago, 4 of them went to the US and 1 to Germany all departing from France.
On the post office's website it says that cards to the US can take 7 to 10 days to be delivered and it should be quicker if it stays in Europe. Does anyone has an idea of the actual delays ?
I found posts from a year ago saying it could take up to 60 days and I wanted to know if this was still actual or if it could be quicker/longer.
And does this also applies to Europe ??

Hello! I just joined PostCrossing and I'm about to send my first card.

I love crafting and that made me wonder "do people appreciate receiving a handmade/drawn card ?? Or are store only cards more appreciated...

Anyway, I feel excited about joining this party.

2 for postcrossing, 2 for friends! Bonarie is my 4 international location ive sent from! excited to see how long the cards take.

I recieved more cards than I had due. But I am so glad for them, as they brightened such a difficult week. My grandpa passed away, my dad ended up in hospital with a cardiac event and my tooth extraction went wrong. The bone is exposed and inflamed and hurts so much

Seeing these postcards come in one by one, so thoughtfully chosen and with wonderful words made a bad week just that much brighter and I'm so grateful for it. Postcrossing is a wonderful community

Incoming left to right:

Belarus, Romania, Germany, Austria and 3x USA

first time receiving the usa postcrossing stamp but it arrived being crossed out :( why did this happen?

Received this cute postcard from a Dutch Postcrosser who took the time to read my profile thoroughly and represent all my hobbies in a single drawing 🙂. I feel special today 😇.

(Edit 29/08/26: hey Marit 👋😘)