Discussion
Postcrossing Blog
mitchbob: > What is Postcrossing?> It's a project that allows you to send postcards and receive postcards back from random people around the world.
altairprime: > 423,755 postcards travelingTo point out why USPS took note of them, there are unofficial Postcrossing tracking IDs recording nearly half a million postcards actively in transit from sender to receiver as of when I pulled that from their website a couple minutes ago.
ajay-b: This is wonderful!!! I have been Postcrossing for years and it's so much fun to get a postcard randomly out of the blue from someone. Regrettably the cost to send a postcard international from the USA is over $1 now, and the cost of a postcard means you might be spending around $2 per card, but it's so worth it.
masfuerte: In the UK it's £3.60, which is nearly $5!
ajay-b: Wowww ok, mea culpa maxima, I should not feel so bad. I would send domestically but the international cards are so much more interesting to me.
dylan604: I wonder why the word Forever is struck out in the design. No mention about the design itself, just that it's available and a triangle.
bosunknows: I think it's so you can't print and try to use the image as actual postage.
jonathanstrange: My girlfriend loves Postcrossing, she recently discovered it and we already have cards from all over the world hanging on our fridge.
ZeWaka: Well, if you buy N of these global forever stamps, the cost will just get cheaper over time (inflation).
zulux: Post office gets grumpy if you post images that could allow for duplication:18 U.S.C. § 501. If you post high-resolution, printable images of valid stamps, especially unused ones, and they can be reproduced, prosecutors could argue you’re facilitating counterfeiting.
