Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · 6d

The cuteness!!! 😱😍

Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · 8d

This giveaway closes tomorrow — don't miss your chance to grab one of these super special stamps that celebrate peace! 🕊️

A special dove, on World Peace Day

On World Peace Day, discover a beautiful new embroidered Dove of Peace stamp — and join our giveaway to win one!

www.postcrossing.com

2 8

Reposted by Postcrossing project

World's Oldest Ham @worldsoldestham.bsky.social · 11d

Happy World Postcard Day!
Join us at 12:30 p.m. for a postcard history lecture, and afterwards, address a postcard in the museum's gift shop to celebrate the postcardiest day of the year! #WorldPostcardDay

1 16

Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · 11d

Happy #worldpostcardday, everyone! 🥳 May your pens flow smoothly and your mailboxes overflow!

www.postcrossing.com/blog/2025/10...

A hand holds several postcards in front of a bright red postbox. The postcards feature the official 2025 World Postcard Day design, showing an illustration of a woman outdoors, looking up as postcards float through a green landscape with trees and hills.

7 21

Reposted by Postcrossing project

The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society @letterappsoc.bsky.social · 11d

It’s #WorldPostcardDay! A HUGE thank you to everyone who sent postcards for our #PostcardDrop2025 (and to eldest for helping me display them). A staggering 521 postcards from 31 countries! Just AMAZING! Send a friend a postcard today! 🥳💌🎉

9 37

Reposted by Postcrossing project

Jonas @magnarssontv.bsky.social · 11d

It's #WorldPostcardDay! Hurray!
Later I will sit in such a train of #ÖBB between Munich and Vienna and draw my 10 adresses and write 10 special jubilee-meetingcards for Saturday

Happy Postcrossing everyone, everywhere! 🤗
#postcards #postcrossing #mailart #briefmarken #postkarten
@d-b-z.bsky.social

1 18

Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · 13d

Is everyone ready for #WorldPostcardDay? 😍 If you're in Germany, Portugal, UK or the USA, there are special postmarks that you can use on your postcards! More info on the World Postcard Day events page: worldpostcardday.com/events

5 22

Reposted by Postcrossing project

bobaa.frog @bobaafrog.bsky.social · 14d

Super hyped for my to-send pile for Postcrossing today.

1 14

Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · 20d

Join us in marking World Peace Day with something beautiful: an embroidered peace-themed stamp, made by a group of postal services from around the world. And we have a few to give away!

www.postcrossing.com/blog/2025/09...

A special dove, on World Peace Day

On World Peace Day, discover a beautiful new embroidered Dove of Peace stamp — and join our giveaway to win one!

www.postcrossing.com

2 11

Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · 22d

Feeding the local postbox with some fun Richard Scarry postcards — we're big fans! What are you mailing this #postboxsaturday?

Hand holding a postcard in front of a blue mailbox. The postcard illustration shows a mail truck and a cartoon animal postal worker surrounded by flying envelopes, with the words “MAIL TIME!” at the top.

4 1 19

Reposted by Postcrossing project

አዲስ @uusisuru.bsky.social · 24d

✍🏼

#Postcrossing

Excerpt: “I still found it hard to wrap my head around the idea that a person could write down words, send them off into the world, and somehow those words would land in the hands of the person for whom they were intended. That people did this every day without thinking twice astounded me.”

Image of bookcover: “When the Museum Is Closed” by Emi Yagi (author of “Diary of a Void”)

1 2 6

Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · 24d

Ah, we love this so much! 😍 It IS is astonishing that a little piece of paper that was in our hands can travel intact to yours across the ocean!

1

Reposted by Postcrossing project

Jonas @magnarssontv.bsky.social · 29d

It's #PostboxSaturday, and I have to share the Post Office of #StGallen at Switzerland- would be my nemesis, a library and a Post Office in the same building...oh dear!
#stamps #briefmarken #switzerland #library #mailart #postcrossing

1 2 15

Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · Sep 11

Is there anything as heartwarming and magical as helping a kid write their first postcards? We don't think so! 🥰

A young girl in a pink shirt writes carefully on the back of a postcard at a white table.

A young girl in a pink shirt posts a postcard into a red mailbox labeled “Correio Normal” in Portugal.

1 9

Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · Sep 10

Looking for ideas to celebrate #WorldPostcardDay with your community? We've got you covered!

World Postcard Day: ideas for libraries and elderly centers!

This World Postcard Day, let’s bring postcards to libraries, little free libraries, and even elderly centers! A simple basket of postcards can spark joy and connection everywhere.

www.postcrossing.com

1 7

Reposted by Postcrossing project

Mella @seutendeern.bsky.social · Sep 2

I had a really rubbish day yesterday but when I opened my mailbox I found 2 more @postcrossing.com postcard! From the US and all the way from Japan! This is why I started #postcrossing again after a long break. It makes you happy to receive a surprise postcard from somewhere far away.

1 11

Reposted by Postcrossing project

The PTS & Stampex @ptsandstampex.bsky.social · Sep 2

Check out this fab postcard postcrossers will be signing and sending at the Postcrossing Meetup taking place on Saturday 25th October at Stampex! Postcard designed by Postcrosser, Anthony ❤️

See postcrossing.com Meetup page for details and to stay up to date with plans for the day.

4 19

Reposted by Postcrossing project

CuTE @c-te.bsky.social · Aug 29

📮Today our U.S. postmark expert on #Postcrossing posted in the forum the new postmark he created for October 1st World Postcard Day. So this afternoon I will be busy addressing postcards to send first to Texas for this special cancellation. 🙂

New world postcard day postmark created in college station Texas with the address to which you should send your postcards.

1 6

Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · Aug 29

Time is running out to vote on the best Europa stamp of 2025! This year's theme is archeology and there are lots of nice entries in the contest. Which one is your favorite?

europastamps.eu/europa2025

#philately

Contest

vote for:

europastamps.eu

1 8

Reposted by Postcrossing project

Karen @byronsbrain.bsky.social · Aug 27

On today’s post via #PostCrossing #stamps #postcards #Dracula, and yes this postcard is from Romania 😍😍😍

1 19

Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · Aug 27

Always wanted to check out the Postcrossing forum, but didn't know where to start? Clarisse wrote a post to help newbies explore one of her favorite corners of the forum, and invite everyone to spread some joy!

#postcrossing #postcards

Spreading the Joy of Postcards – Within the Postcrossing Community

The Postcrossing Forum can feel like a maze at first, but it’s full of fun and friendly spaces waiting to be explored. In this new blog series, postcrossers introduce their favorite corners of the for...

www.postcrossing.com

1 5 13

Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · Aug 26

Oh, they look lovely! 😍

2

Reposted by Postcrossing project

MissHalcyon @misshalcyon.bsky.social · Aug 24

So, I dabble in Postcrossing sometimes. The idea is that you send postcards to people around the world.

I have in my profile that I LOVE mushrooms.

Well a Russian Postcrosser was kind enough to send me a FULL sheet of mushroom stamps-- and some other stamps too! How cool are these?!

#philately

It's a full sheet of Russian mushroom stamps on a blue deskmat background. The corners of the stamp sheet are decorated with Amanaita Muscaria in the bottom right, and with autumn leaves in the top left. There are 5 stamps, each depicting a different species.

Two individual Russian stamps are depicted. One of them is a Bolete (a chunky, brown mushroom) and the other is Amanita Muscaria (the stereotypical red mushroom with white scales.)

6 1 40

Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · Aug 23

A little #PostboxSaturday from Sweden! Bright yellow postboxes (and even a rainbow one! 🏳️🌈) and cheerful Swedish-themed postcards on their way to unsuspecting mailboxes! 😍

#postcrossing #postcards

A hand holding several postcards, the top one decorated with flowers, hearts, and a teacup labeled “Fika,” in front of a rainbow-colored Swedish Postnord mailbox.

A hand holding several colorful postcards, the top one featuring Pippi Longstocking lifting a horse, in front of a yellow Swedish Postnord mailbox.

A hand holding a stack of illustrated postcards, the top one showing a smiling girl with a dandelion crown and the word “Juni,” in front of a yellow Swedish Postnord mailbox.

1 2 24

Postcrossing project @postcrossing.com · Aug 22

Postcard number 83 million was sent from China some weeks ago and arrived this morning to its destination in Germany! 🎉🎉🎉 Woohoo!

Postcrossing postcard CN-4084219 from China

Postcard CN-4084219 traveled 7,779 km (4,834 miles) in 26 days (from China to Germany)

www.postcrossing.com

2 10