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Postcrossing
Image:Postcrossing_Logo.png
URL http://www.postcrossing.com
Slogan "Send a postcard and receive one back from a random person somewhere in the world!"
Type of site Project Website
Registration Yes
Available language(s) English
Owner Paulo Magalhães
Created by Paulo Magalhães
Launched 2005

Postcrossing is a project, inspired by Bookcrossing, designed to allow people to receive postcards from all over the world. Participants who send a postcard should receive at least one back, from a postcrosser in another country. Because each postcard received is registered with the website, users are able to generate global-scale maps of destinations which they have sent cards to and received cards from, and review the journey times of mailed items.

As of August 28, 2008, there were 62,933 members from 188 countries. 1,351,491 postcards have been received because of this project and 68,000 are currently traveling. In total, Postcrossing's postcards have travelled 7,387,142,198 km or 184,332 laps around the world. [1] Maps generated of the site's general activity reveal higher concentrations of users in Europe and North America than in other areas, with the United States, Finland and Germany being the only countries to have broken the 100,000 postcards sent barrier. [2], [3]

On Friday the 15th of February 2008, the site launched a new look interface, with added features popularly known among the community as "Version 2".

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[edit] Statistics

Postcrossing provides a number of statistics as well as various mapping options. According to site statistics [4], more than four times more females are registered than males.

[edit] Distribution of Members

Country Members (28 Aug 08) Sent postcards (28 Aug 08)
1. Finland 8925 312346
2. United States 12842 197577
3. Germany 5516 178351
4. Netherlands 2691 86368
5. Brazil 2558 31757
6. Portugal 1824 45572
7. China 2816 15928
8. United Kingdom 1825 38634
9. Japan 1300 35550
10. Turkey 1167 7203
11. Canada 1543 30992
12. Russia 1287 17307
13. France 1009 27916
14. Thailand 1363 8504
15. Estonia 938 26020
16. Australia 1072 22607
17. Taiwan 1437 13677
18. Spain 781 23002
19. Singapore 618 8795
20. New Zealand 537 17494
21. Belgium 581 17365
22. Czech Republic 538 12565
23. Italy 633 20323
24. Austria 490 18076
25. Poland 560 9970
26. Lithuania 860 8772
27. Malaysia 638 8393
28. Switzerland 482 15234
29. Hungary 446 10357
30. Norway 386 11790

[edit] Tags

Tagging is an alternative way of obtaining specific postcards that you desire from other members on the forum. There are many different tags which all have a specialised theme eg. Sheep Tag. One member will tag the forum member that has posted above them, ask for their address and sent them a postcard that is related to the tag theme. Then someone will post in the thread and 'tag' them, therefore sending that person a postcard.

Tags are used by many members who collect specific types of postcards, as they can participate in whichever tags they want.

[edit] Forum

The website has an official forum which allows members to discuss many aspects of the project with other members, as well as participate in games, tags and postcard swaps. There is also an off topic section for threads not related to Postcrossing.

[edit] Bingo

Bingo is a popular game which is played on the forum. The aim of the game is to receive postcards from as many different places as possible, in order to score bingo. Bingos are location specific. For example, when playing a New Zealand bingo, there are 16 listed regions in New Zealand and once a user has received postcards from all 16 regions, they have achieved bingo. The same can be done for sending postcards.

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