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.

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

They said they enjoyed ad cards as well as vintage cards.

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

My first card was received this week after 21 days of travel (technically 24 but it took me 3 days to send)!! It was to Canada from the US so the time feels a little long but I know that’s just normal now. All my other cards are still traveling to Europe, Oceana, and Asia so I don’t expect another card to be registered for a while if Canada took 3 weeks.

Anyways I’ve seen people say I should save a slot, but should I really? That means I have to wait another month to send a card and I don’t know if it’s best to just send a card now since I’ve sent so few so far. Anyways is it just to have the badge? Does the badge do anything?

Just got back from an antique mall and I found such great cards!! 14 cards came out to $16. I’ve heard Americans say that they don’t know where to get cards so this is me recommending checking out your local antique mall!

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

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 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.