Daydreamer: Postcrosser

Hiiii! I wanna share one of my hobby today, it's Postcrossing. I guess that a lot of you has known 'bout this activity, am i right? But if you're not, let me explain it ;)

What is Postcrossing?

It's a project that allows anyone to receive postcards (real ones, not electronic) from random places in the world.

The project

The goal of this project is to allow people to receive postcards from all over the world, for free. Well, almost free! The main idea is that: if you send a postcard, you will receive at least one back from a random Postcrosser from somewhere in the world.

Why? Because, like the author, there are lots of people who like to receive real mail. The element of surprise of receiving postcards from different places in the world (many of which you probably have never heard of) can turn your mailbox into a box of surprises - and who wouldn't like that?

How does it work?

First, the short version:

request an address from the website
mail the postcard to the address
wait to receive a postcard
register the received postcard in the system

The first step is to request to send a postcard. The website will display (and send you an e-mail) with the address of another member and a Postcard ID (e.g.: US-786). You then mail a postcard to that member.

The member receives the postcard and registers it using the Postcard ID that is on the postcard. At this point, you are eligible to receive a postcard from another user. You are now in line for the next person that requests to send a postcard. Where the postcard comes from is a surprise!

You can have up to 5 postcards traveling at any single time. Every time one of the postcards you send is registered, you can request another address. The number of postcards allowed to travel at any single time goes up the more postcards you send!

Postcrossing Stats

316,745 members
205 countries
297 postcards/hour
11,268,473 postcards received
377,341 postcards traveling
60,146,375,167 km traveled
1,500,845 laps around the world

if you want to learn more just check it HERE

Mine
I started this activity since 9 months ago. Until today I have received 36 postcards, with different picture, size, color, theme, materials etc. Actually if i live in Europe, i believe in 9 months i'll get more than one hundred cards. So, just checked out my cards!

The Very First Card (from Canada)