Experience with postcrossing
Various posts on the topic of postcrossing
On August 15, 2022, the official postcard for World Postcard Day 2022 was presented.It was presented on the Postcrossing.com blog.A very good choice was made and fits very well into the current time.The World Postcard Day is October 1st. Worldpostcardday.com is the official website for WPD.Happy Postcrossing!
A look at a wonderful English blog from Nao (here Nao’s older entries before 2022) a fellow Postcrossing member from Japan. In the movie “Forrest Gump” the famous quote is: “Life is like a box of chocolates“Today I would like to change it to: “Postcrossing is like a box of chocolates”. It started at the… Read more Nao’s blog – a Postcrossing Connection
Today a short detour into the realm of statistics.The short good news: Poscrossing grows and grows. 🙂 The Postcrossing portal has a wonderful overview of the postcards received (here the link: Postcards statistics).I took the last two months, October and November, and compared it to 2019, the pre-pandemic year (is more realistic).In October the number… Read more Postcrossing grows – Number of postcards October and November 2021
Postcrossing grew by 8.9% in postcards received in April compared to 2019. In April 2021, 453814 received postcards were registered at postcrossing.com. That is an increase of 37,081 postcards or a plus of 8.9% compared to 2019. (source: www.postcrossing.com). The year 2020 is difficult to compare due to the pandemic. Back in April 2020, the… Read more Postcrossing grew by 8.9% in postcards received in April compared to 2019
The current statistics from www.postcrossing.com show for March 2021, 480,837 postcards received. Compared to the pre-pandemic year 2019, it is an increase of approx. 5.1% (457,532 in March 2019). Compared to the COVID-19 year 2020, an increase of 25.3%. The hobby is becoming more and more popular. A great development. Happy postcrossing!
The village of Lover in England had a great idea. The name of the village gave people the idea to design postcards and, above all, a postmark for Valentine’s Day.Lover’s postmark became famous and featured by many media outlets such as the BBC.The village offers everyone the service to send a postcard with the famous… Read more Lover valentine’s day postmark from the village of Lover in the UK