Mysterious, travelling postcards

This map tracks the postcards currently in transit for the Postcrossing project.

If you'd like to receive a postcard from a random place on earth, sign up. It's easy to participate:

1. register to get a login
2. obtain an address and a postcard ID
3. mail the postcard
4. wait to receive a postcard from another postcrosser
5. register the postcard ID of the card you have received
6. go to 2

There's no cost to play (except for the postcard and postage fees), and more than 500,000 postcards have been registered in the project as having been sent and received.

I love thinking about all the stories behind these postcards.

Found at Moleskinerie.

Comments

[Alicia]

How interesting! Thanks for posting this and letting us know. I'll pass it along on my blog, too. :)

[KG]

Alicia — Let me know if you participate and what you experience! And thanks for your link. :)

[Kai @ BlogWorks]

I like the East German stamp that they have on their website. (DDR stands for "Deutsche Demokratische Republik" = "German Democratic Republic" - I grew up there and it wasn't "democratic". Still, we had nice stamps. :)

[KG]

Hi Kai - Very interesting! That's one thing I love about projects like this --- learning new things and "meeting" new bloggers.

So, thanks for the new fact and for dropping by. :)

[rel]

Kristin,
Mais oui mon amie!
count me in!!!!!!!
I'm an avid collector of post cards.
rel

[KG]

How cool, rel! Keep us posted on what you get.

Too much fun, eh? :)