With 36,000 enthusiastic fans, the Netherlands is taking the lead in the world of Postcrossing. Postcrossing is an international network in which people send postcards to random people all over the world with something about themselves, their city or their country. To underline the popularity of this activity PostNL issued a colourful stamp sheet featuring famous Dutch sites.
The ten featured sites. are the Delta Works, the Wadden Islands, Hoge Veluwe National Park, the Binnenhof
Network for postcard lovers
Dutch postcrossers have already sent over three million postcards. Postcrossers register the postcards they receive on postcrossing.com and then receive another postcrosser’s address. That way, each postcrosser sends and receives an equal amount of postcards.
Special collections and international friendships
Each postcrosser has their own motives for participating. Andrea van den Broek (40) has currently sent 1,159 postcross cards. “I’ve received cards from 236 countries and non-independent or officially recognised areas. I have yet to receive a card from Central Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo”. Leonie van den Engel (age 34, with 645 postcross cards) has mainly built new international friendships. “Over the past years, postcross friends of mine from places like South Africa, Singapore and America have come to visit me in the Netherlands. I myself have gone to visit several European postcross friends”.
Released April 6, 2016
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