If you’re visiting from the A to Z Challenge, then chances are you know a lot about blogging. Today, I wanted to talk about one blog in particular: the Postcrossing blog. You can visit it, here. Their tagline is, “Stories about the Postcrossing community and the postal world.”

Postcrossing is an international community of penpal afficionados. It’s an interesting concept: members send postcards to members around the world. The blog discusses news from within the community, and also postal mail in general. One recent article highlighted the Malta Postal Museum.

The thing I love about Postcrossing is that it’s not a big investment. Writing a postcard is a tiny bit of text, and a small amount of postage. You can decide whether to mail members just in your country, or whether you’re willing to write to folx in other countries.

Each month, they send you a list of your “stats” – to which countries you sent cards; from which countries you received cards; etc. I use it as a way to keep the pump primed, as Julia Cameron would say.  In the process, I’ve even made some friends along the way. Not every person in Postcrossing is interested in a more extended correspondence, but I’ve met a few. It’s the best of both worlds: a quick note to someone new, and a few longer, more crunchy letters.

What about you, Dear Reader? Have you tried Postcrossing?