Postcard Collecting

Who does not like getting letters in the mail?  Especially kids!  The other favorite thing that all kids love is COLLECTING.  Kids love collecting rocks, sticks, sea shells, cars, trains, stuffed animals--you name it!

Well, we came across this fun website, postcrossing.com, for collecting postcards.

When you login to the website, you will be given mailing addresses to send your postcards to. After you mail your postcards, your address is added to the pool of addresses for someone else to send you a postcard.  It probably won't be from the same person you mailed a postcard to, unless they choose to. (This could also be a convenient way to find a penpal, if the recipient responds.)

It is a fun way to collect stamps and postcards from all over the world! 

We have received postcards from China, Russia, Finland, Mongolia, Canada, Lithuania, and many other countries.  It is such a good feeling to send and receive letters.

I know my kids look forward to getting mail and this is a fun a way to do it!  I keep all of the postcards we've received in a small photo album.  That way it is fun and easy to flip through the postcard album to see what we have collected.  With postcrossing, it also makes it worth it to purchase postcards while on vacations or outings--a souvenir that is pretty inexpensive but in the past we have lost them.  Now we have a way to actually use our postcards!