As addicted as he is to technology, Portuguese programmer Paulo Magalhães missed receiving handwritten correspondence -- the kind with stamps on it, that you pick up by hand from your mailbox.
So he started a sort of global chain scheme for pen-and-paper nostalgics called Postcrossing: Send handwritten postcards to strangers, receive handwritten postcards from strangers. More than a half-million postcards have crossed the world since Postcrossing began.
To participate, you simply request an address from the website, mail a postcard to the address, wait to receive a postcard and register it into the site's log. The result: Your mailbox turns into something more than just a receptacle for bills and junk mail.
written on Wednesday May 30, 2007
postcards,
penpals,
website.
