I recently saw something called Postcrossing mentioned on someone’s blog. I wasn’t familiar with it so I decided to find out it was. Postcrossing is a site whose international members exchange postcards by mail randomly. That is to say, the members are not pen pals, you never know who your postcard will be from or who you’ll get to send one to next. The site is free to join. Members receive the name and address of the person they’re to send a postcard to, as well as a code that must be included on the postcard. Once their postcard is received, the code on it is registered on the website and their name and address is sent so that they’ll receive a postcard. The number of postcards one member can send is directly related to the number of postcards you have previously sent. Postcrossing seems like an interesting idea, but I’m not crazy about total strangers getting my address. I’d go for it if perhaps postcards were all sent to a central place and remailed, but that would cost money and then it probably wouldn’t be able to remain free.

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