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- Create your free account and fill out your profile. Request a random PenPal or search for a friend’s username directly. You’ll have access to your new PenPal’s public profile. This does NOT include their address. Your personal address in never shared and is securely hidden behind a username. Write your postcard, upload a photo and click send.
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What is PenPal? To put it simply, PenPal is all about creating a physical connection with new people from all over the world - by postcard. Basically, for every postcard you send, you’ll receive one from another PenPal. The more you send… the more you receive.
- Decide on Your Style
- Penpal Search
- Introduce Yourself
- Decorate The Envelope
- Write Your Letter
- Send It
Think about what sort of letters you want to send and receive, before you do anything else. (Do not start buying all sorts of supplies yet! 🙄) Think about all the different ways you could penpal. Do you want traditional snail mail? Post cards only? Email? There are endless possibilities here so lock this part down first, so that you can work your ...
My first suggestion (which I overlooked) is to consider starting off with someone you already know. Do you have friends who might enjoy this as much as you? Maybe a long lost friend who has moved away, or a friend of a friend you know of, might share some of your interests. Ask around a little bit, you might be surprised to find that someone fairly...
Now that you’ve found someone you feel may be a good fit, it’s time to get to know them a little. Introduce yourself to them individually if you can. Tell your potential penpal a bit about yourself, and your penpal style (discovered above in the first step), and see if you mesh well. You want to keep your introduction pretty brief, but informative....
Of course this one only applies to snail mail but even for email/apps there are little photos you can include or colors you can apply. For those of you sending traditional snail mail, give the receiver a little something extra to smile at when they check the mail! It’s fun to get something pretty in the mail once in a while but this can also serve ...
Unbelievable, we’re already to the fifth step and only now do you finally get to write your letter! You may want to switch up the order here but personally, decorating the envelope gets my creative juices flowing for the letter I’m about to write. This is likely a good time to reintroduce yourself, now that you have the space to go a little more in...
I just want to take a sec to remind you to check with the postal service where you are andwhere the letter is going. Some may not allow you to mail certain things and you don’t want your letter to arrive mangled by a stranger. Stay safe. Depending upon the situation you may want to receive your penpal letters at a P.O. Box instead of at your home a...
I like to reply to the penpal post, introduce myself and then ask a bunch of questions. The 36 questions for increasing closeness has some good questions if you're out of ideas. A good number is how many you think you will have time for.
how to find and start a pen pal? prepping for writing the first pen pal letter? logistics with sending the penpal letter? in this video i'm answering all of ...
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It can feel strange to write to someone for the first time, or even a few times after that. This is why I put together a guide, what to write to your pen pal, so that you can get writing. You might also find how to start to pen pal to be a useful read. In no time at all, you won’t even need to think about this one.
To put it simply, PenPal is all about creating a physical connection with new people from all over the world - by postcard. Basically, for every postcard you send, you’ll receive one from another PenPal.
