The world on my doorstep

The Postcrossing project was started by Paulo Magalhães from Portugal as a side project while he was a student. Paulo loves to receive mail and postcards in particular; from friends, family or from anywhere in the globe. The more random the place and person, the better. He knew more people shared the same interest, but there was no good way yet to connect them across the planet.

And that’s how he got the initial idea of creating an online platform to support this offline hobby. The goal: to connect people across the world through postcards, independent of their location, age, gender, race or beliefs. On July 14th, 2005 the Postcrossing Project website was open to everyone for free.

My postcrossing stats

Sent postcards: 96
To: Austria (1), Belarus (6), Belgium (1), Canada (1), China (8), Czech Republic (3), Denmark (1), Estonia (1), Finland (5), France (2), Germany (17), Guam (1), Hong Kong (4), Ireland (1), Italy (3), Japan (1), Luxembourg (1), Moldova (1), Poland (5), Portugal (1), Puerto Rico (1), Russia (7), Slovenia (1), Spain (4), Taiwan (4), Thailand (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (5), United Kingdom (4), United States of America (4).

Received postcards: 98
From: Australia (2), Austria (1), Belarus (6), Belgium (2), Brazil (1), Canada (1), China (5), Croatia (1), Czech Republic (1), Finland (7), France (3), Germany (16), Hong Kong (3), India (2), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Korea (South) (1), Lithuania (4), Malaysia (1), Moldova (1), Poland (1), Russia (9), Slovenia (1), South Africa (1), Switzerland (1), Taiwan (2), Turkey (1), Ukraine (6), United Kingdom (5), United States of America (9).