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Are you a young artist who loves postcards? PostEurop is running a postcard contest for 18–25 year olds to celebrate the 70 years of its #EUROPAstamps program! The theme is "Unity in Europe" and winners get €500 + their design printed on postcards! 😍

https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2025/12/10/europa-stamps-70th-anniversary-postcard-design-competition

#postcards #philately

Instead of focusing on newly bought things, this forum topic instead encourages postcrossers to go through what they already have. Come brag about your empty postcard boxes and empty rolls of washi tape!

https://community.postcrossing.com/t/what-have-you-used-from-your-stash-for-postcrossing/993722

A hand holds an empty roll of washi tape.

Several empty sheets of stamps and stickers.

We love postcard boxes! They're cheap and offer you a variety of interesting postcards to send! 🥳

https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2025/11/19/from-miffy-to-marimekko-postcard-boxes-we-love

Meet João Machado — master of color, form, and some of Portugal’s most striking stamp designs. Don't miss the cheeky giveaway at the end of the post for a chance to win one of his famous cork stamps! 😍

https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2025/10/25/a-unique-chromatic-code-master-designer-joao-machado-s-journey-from-sculpture-to-stamps

A montage of colorful stamps by João Machado.

This giveaway closes tomorrow — don't miss your chance to grab one of these super special stamps that celebrate peace! 🕊️

https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2025/09/21/a-special-dove-on-world-peace-day

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The dining table today, because it is World Postcard Day! I send a few Postcrossing cards to India, the USA, Russia and Germany and cards to friends and my niece. But the day isn't over yet! So I will write a few more and post them tomorrow...

Also, I recently found out that you can follow Postcrossing in the Fediverse!: @postcrossing@mastodon.social

#Postcards #WorldPostcardDay #Postcrossing #SnailMail #Mail #SlowLiving #Ansichtkaarten #Post #EchtePost #Slakkenpost

A white hand holding up a hand of postcards outside in a garden. There is yellow Miffy card, an illustration of a starry night, a famous painting of a cliff by Monet and a painting of ducks, a heron and other birds in a shallow river. The other cards are mostly hidden behind the others.

A table full of postcards with a cup of tea in the middle. The postcards are all very different. Some show paintings or illustrations, photos of old manuscripts, mushrooms and a black photo of a beach.

Happy #worldpostcardday, everyone! 🥳 May your pens flow smoothly and your mailboxes overflow!

https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2025/10/01/it-s-world-postcard-day-hurray

A hand holds several postcards in front of a bright red postbox. The postcards feature the official 2025 World Postcard Day design, showing an illustration of a woman outdoors, looking up as postcards float through a green landscape with trees and hills.

@KnittingDyke It's a bit of a process to organize a postmark, I'm afraid. But you can send your postcards to College Station, and they'll get them postmarked with theirs. More info about the US postmark specifically here: https://community.postcrossing.com/t/pictorial-postmarks/278134/1003

Is everyone ready for #WorldPostcardDay? 😍 If you're in Germany, Portugal, UK or the USA, there are special postmarks that you can use on your postcards! More info on the World Postcard Day events page: https://worldpostcardday.com/events

Join us in marking World Peace Day with something beautiful: an embroidered peace-themed stamp, made by a group of postal services from around the world. And we have a few to give away!

https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2025/09/21/a-special-dove-on-world-peace-day

An embroidered stamp in the shape of a dove.

Feeding the local postbox with some fun Richard Scarry postcards — we're big fans! What are you mailing this #postboxsaturday?

Hand holding a postcard in front of a blue mailbox. The postcard illustration shows a mail truck and a cartoon animal postal worker surrounded by flying envelopes, with the words “MAIL TIME!” at the top.

Is there anything as heartwarming and magical as helping a kid write their first postcards? We don't think so! 🥰

A young girl in a pink shirt posts a postcard into a red mailbox labeled “Correio Normal” in Portugal.

A young girl in a pink shirt writes carefully on the back of a postcard at a white table.

@clarissawam We'll be here, whenever the time is right! :)

Time is running out to vote on the best Europa stamp of 2025! This year's theme is archeology and there are lots of nice entries in the contest. Which one is your favorite?

https://europastamps.eu/europa2025

#philately

Collage of 2025 EUROPA stamps from different countries, all featuring archaeological discoveries such as ancient figurines, rock carvings, pottery, and artifacts.

Always wanted to check out the Postcrossing forum, but didn't know where to start? Clarisse wrote a post to help newbies explore one of her favorite corners of the forum and invite everyone to spread some joy!

#postcrossing #postcards

https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2025/08/26/spreading-the-joy-of-postcards-within-the-postcrossing-community

A little #PostboxSaturday from Sweden! Bright yellow postboxes (and even a rainbow one! 🏳️🌈) and cheerful Swedish-themed postcards on their way to unsuspecting mailboxes! 😍

#postcrossing #postcards

A hand holding several postcards, the top one decorated with flowers, hearts, and a teacup labeled “Fika,” in front of a rainbow-colored Swedish Postnord mailbox.

A hand holding several colorful postcards, the top one featuring Pippi Longstocking lifting a horse, in front of a yellow Swedish Postnord mailbox.

A hand holding a stack of illustrated postcards, the top one showing a smiling girl with a dandelion crown and the word “Juni,” in front of a yellow Swedish Postnord mailbox.

Always wanted a postcard from Antarctica, featuring some cute penguins? The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust has you covered! 🐧

https://shop.ukaht.org/products/postcards-from-antarctica/

The Little Mail Carriers were on a Pacific adventure! 🌏
They passed through a few countries on their way to New Caledonia 🇳🇨, where they explored post offices, spotted unique stamps & made postcard magic along the way! #postcrossing

https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2025/08/15/the-little-mail-carriers-travel-to-new-caledonia

A postal clerk in New Caledonia stamps postcards while the toy postal carriers watch from the counter.

The toy postal carriers sit on top of a yellow mail trolley in front of an in-flight screen showing the plane’s location near Nouméa.

Some stamps just make you hungry... like this delicious collection that the community has been curating over the years on the forum! 😋 Feel free to add your favorite food-themed specimens!

https://community.postcrossing.com/t/food-on-stamps/132

If taking nice pictures of postboxes, stamps and postcards is something right up your alley, piXPost is the app for you! 😍

https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2025/08/07/pixpost-an-app-for-postal-adventurers

#philately #stamps #postcards