I love the mail. I look forward every day to walking down to the mailbox and seeing what's in there. I know lots of people who don't feel that way and say the only things they receive are junk mail and bills. Here's the answer for scrooges like them and postal enthusiasts like me!
Postcrossing.com is a "postcard crossing project (that) allows anyone to receive postcards - paper ones, not electronic- from random places in the world."
You get an address to mail your postcard to and someone else in the world gets your address to mail you one. I just signed up and see I am mailing a postcard to an 8th grade student in Finland. I will report back where I get my postcard back from.
This is awesome! I'm now sending a postcard to Markus in Finland. Sweet.
Posted by: Amanda | November 01, 2007 at 10:16 AM
Pretty cool... I'm going to have to sign up myself.
Posted by: Alisa | November 02, 2007 at 09:20 PM
This is great, I've just signed up and my roommate is doing it as well. I'm posting to someone in Serbia and Finland. Awesome. Thanks Bean!!!! :)
Posted by: Allison | November 05, 2007 at 06:07 PM
Oh, this is the one I sent you. I find the maps and statistics about how many cards are traveling and how many miles the cards have traveled so far almost as fun as the exchanging cards. Glad you liked it!
Posted by: Nicole | November 17, 2007 at 04:40 PM
WTF? What is it with Postcrossing and Finland? Did it originate there, or something? I signed up (thanks to you), and my first two addressees were in Finland. Have to admit, the next three were in German, the Netherlands, and Taiwan, though.
Posted by: Sparky | December 01, 2007 at 12:27 PM