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Postcrossing.com

This is a fairly recent website / project based on a very interesting idea which was born out of a love for receiving Postcards. This was how Paulo Magalhães came up with the idea, he just liked to receive postcards.

Basically, it's a website for Postcard Crossing. People register on the site and then receive addresses to which they can send actual paper Postcards – don't want you to think it's just another e-card website – via snail mail.

Even though they've only started a bit over a month ago, they already have 1598 users from 53 countries, 993 postcards have been received and 2817 are on their way!! Seems like great statistics, if you ask me.

There is one aspect that – kind of – concerns me and it's that some people will have access to my address, but since it's based on a random system, the odds of getting a stalker are quite slim. And not every stalkers are bad, mind you. ;)

It's pretty easy. You register on the website and you can request an address right away, which will be e-mailed to you. You then mail the postcard and when the person receives it, they go on the website and register that postcard. That way they'll keep track of how many postcards are sent, are received and how many are still traveling.

Some people have said it works, but i need to see for myself. :)

Take it for a spin, if you'd like. Let me know if you get any postcards. ;)