You've got mail

Last summer I saw a blurb in Family Fun magazine for something called Postcrossing. It's a website for people to send and receive postcards from all over the world. I love to get things in the mail so I signed us up right away.

In the past 6 months, we have received about 50 postcards from every country imaginable:

Some of our cards are from the USA, but most are from other countries.

Postcrossing has some sort of automated system where you write an ID # on each card you send. When it gets where it is supposed to go, the recipient enters that ID # into postcrossing's website, and then your name goes to the top of the list to get a postcard from someone else. So the more you send, the more you receive. It's not like the old chain letters where you sent things to people and then never got anything.

I love finding a postcard in our mailbox when it's our turn to get one. It's so much nicer than just junk mail or bills. And I love reading what people write on the back - they tell about life in their county, or what they did that day, or what books they like to read. It's all so interesting!

If anyone is interested in signing up, the website is www.postcrossing.com and it's free to join. Your only costs are the postcards and stamps (most of the cards we have sent have been to countries overseas, which need a 98 cent stamp).