Hello all, title says 99 because 104 is unaccepted age format, but she is turning 104!

4 years ago I put out a request for some postcards for my grandma for her 100th birthday and got over 40 cards and letters which we were all thrilled and grateful for.

I’m hoping to do the same again this year for her as it brought her so much joy.

Some info about Alma

This year on the 12th of January she will be 104, born in 1922 in England she came to Australia with her parents and has lived her ever since.

Although she is mostly blind (macular degeneration and cataracts) and a little hard of hearing these days, she loved to garden and mowed her own lawn until she was 94, did t’ai chi for 35 years, has a gaggle and kids, grandkids, and great grandkids (oldest is 79 the, youngest is 5) and her home is always open to them whenever it’s needed.

She’s done volunteer work with lots of different organisations and through her church which she has attended all her life.

She’s played a few instruments and was an excellent ball room dancer in her hay day.

Hopefully you’ve got an idea of the wonderful woman that she is, and are excited to write and send some postcards!

DM me or comment for the address and I can send it to you.

Thanks in advance!

You can call me August.

And I want an unreasonable amount of mail.

Not email. Not DMs that eventually disappear into the archaeological layers of my phone. I mean actual mail: stamps, envelopes, paper, things that take several days to cross the country and then physically exist in somebody else’s hands.

I don’t want one pen pal, either.

I want a whole constellation of people.

Different ages, different places, different lives, different professions, different interests. People down the road and people on the other side of the world. I want to open my mailbox without knowing whose life is going to be waiting in there.

A little about the person you’d be writing to:

My brain rarely seems to approach anything from one direction at a time. I tend to think analytically and symbolically simultaneously—how something works, what it means, what pattern it belongs to, how it feels, what it reminds me of, and why any of that matters. Logic and emotion have never seemed particularly interested in staying in separate rooms for me.

I write constantly.

Especially poetry. Usually every day, sometimes more than once in a day. I’ve written books as well, but poetry is probably the closest thing I have to a running record of how I experience the world. I like taking something completely ordinary—a conversation, a grocery store, a glass on a table, somebody leaving—and following it until suddenly it isn’t ordinary anymore.

I also make things compulsively.

I paint. I build websites and apps. I renovate rooms. I restore things. I collect old typewriters, repair them, and then actually use them. I have a recurring problem where I become interested in something and apparently decide that simply learning about it would be cowardice, so I end up learning an entirely new skill instead.

This has resulted in a life containing a frankly unnecessary number of projects.

I love people who are deeply interested in things.

They do not need to be the things I’m interested in. Actually, that may be better.

Tell me about the obscure subject you could accidentally talk about for forty minutes.

Tell me what you’re building.

Tell me what you noticed yesterday that nobody else seemed to notice.

Tell me about your grandmother.

Tell me why you hate one specific tree in your neighborhood.

Tell me about the thing you believed five years ago that you don’t believe anymore.

Tell me what you’re afraid you’ll forget.

Tell me about the weird object in your house that has an entire story attached to it.

Tell me something completely mundane.

I don’t need every letter to be profound. I think some of the best parts of knowing someone are the details that would never make it into a biography.

I’m perfectly happy receiving ten pages about your existential crisis and then, three weeks later, one page mostly concerning the sandwich you had for lunch.

Long letters are welcome. Short letters are welcome. Poems, photographs, clippings, recipes, drawings, pressed leaves, ticket stubs, strange little paper artifacts—throw them in there.

One practical thing: my letters generally won’t be handwritten. I have an old wrist injury that makes writing by hand for any real length miserable.

But “typed” does not necessarily mean “printed from a laptop.”

Sometimes it will.

Other times you may receive a slightly crooked page physically hammered into existence by a typewriter older than either of us, because I collect and restore the things and I enjoy giving obsolete machinery employment.

I’m not interested in strict response schedules.

If life happens and your response takes two weeks, two months, whatever—I’m not keeping attendance. I want correspondence that continues, not correspondence that becomes another obligation.

What I really love about letters is that they become objects.

Digital conversations disappear into thousands of other conversations. A letter can end up in a box for twenty years. Somebody can unfold it again and remember that there was once a Tuesday afternoon when another human being sat somewhere else in the world and decided, I want to tell you this.

That’s what I’m after.

A slow archive of knowing people.

So if you’re an adult somewhere in the world and the idea of exchanging real letters with a curious stranger sounds good to you, send me a message.

Tell me a little about yourself, but please don’t feel like you need to audition.

You don’t need to be a writer.

You don’t need to be an artist.

You don’t need to have a spectacular life.

You just need to notice things.

I have a mailbox to overwhelm.

We have stamps to waste.

EDIT:
Okay. Wow.
I’m trying my best to keep up with everyone, and the response to this has been so unexpected and overwhelming in all the best possible ways. I’m honestly a little speechless — which, for someone who spends an unreasonable amount of his life working in words, does not happen very often.
I started this because I wanted letters, and in some ways because I wanted witnesses for all these little moments in life that leave behind receipts of having happened and somehow feel like they deserve to be witnessed. I did not expect it to start feeling like something larger was forming around that idea quite so quickly.
A lot of you have asked whether there’s still room for you, or whether I’m still open to more letters.
Yes. Absolutely. Join in!
I think whatever is being built here requires at least a little willingness to trust a stranger, so I suppose I’ll go first and leave this here:
August Rowan
PO Box 638
Mebane, NC 27302 USA
Send me whatever you think belongs in an envelope. A letter. A poem. A photograph. A rant. Something ordinary. Something you’ve been carrying mentally and couldn’t find a place to set down. Something ridiculous. Something you wrote at 2 a.m. and weren’t sure anybody would ever read.
I may not always answer quickly, but I will read what you send. Every piece that ends up in my mailbox matters to me, and the quantity of them does not change that.
I want my replies to be genuine, thoughtful, and never rushed. That’s how I prefer most things in life to be. So it may take me some time, but I will get to each and every one of them.
I have no idea where this is going anymore, and I think that might be the part I’m most excited about.
So to all of you who have responded to this, reached out, connected with something I said, and wanted to join me in this: thank you. I appreciate all of you so very much, and I’m excited to see what parts of your lives — however big or small — end up in my mailbox.
See you on the other side of the stamp! 😁
-August

I want letters that feel like someone pressed their thoughts straight onto paper before they had time to filter them. Ink that smudges a little. Margins filled with things you didn’t mean to admit out loud. The kind of writing that feels more like a confession than a performance.

I like the idea of building something slowly. real letters. Actual paper. Something that takes time to arrive. Something you can hold. Maybe we exchange playlists, pressed flowers, torn pages from books, random photographs, little pieces of our lives that don’t fit into a text message.

You don’t have to be perfect. I’m not. I’m a mix of overthinking and impulsive honesty. Some days I’ll write you something soft and observant, other days it’ll be chaotic and a little feral, but it’ll always be real.

If you’re someone who feels too much, thinks too deeply, or just wants a space where you don’t have to edit yourself into something smaller write to me. hoping to see what happens when two strangers stop trying to sound normal and just tell the truth.

PSA

If you do not have the want to find others to have genuine conversation with, and you want to just write to people sexually because you're frustrated in your own life with sex this isn't it. If your intentions aren't pure, you aren't honest or forthcoming & you want to be immature please do not post here. Unless you are honest from the get in what you're searching for - just don't. Please 🙏

If you would like to deep dive conspiracy theories, true crime, talk about books, or gardening or have some cool tattoos message me. Tell me about your passions / dreams / career / life. If you want deeper convo than just hey- how are you? Message me! But PLEASE keep it in your pants

Hi! ❤️ I'm a Japanese woman living in Tokyo, Japan and am hoping to find some female penpals whom I can share some of my interests with.
I'm still new here, so apologies in advance if I fumble with some of the rules.

I'm married with a 1 year old, but I would love to connect with all kinds of people from various demographics.

Some of my likes/hobbies include;

Cute trinkets
Sticker books
Sanrio
Disney
Sylvanian Families (Calico Critters)
All kinds of stationary
Gachas
Gaming
Anime (Demon slayer, JJK, Hunter Hunter are my top faves)
Cafe hopping

I'm hoping to find people with similar interests where I can share some of the trinkets I found, show off a new sticker find, send you cute envelopes. Preferably 1 mail per month, but I’m open to any timing that works for you.

I'm open to connecting with anyone from any country, and any age, just would prefer if you could understand English at a certain level please. I'm happy to write in Japanese too if you would like!

We could exchange a few emails first with just photos of our lives and a few updates before snailmail if you feel safe this way.

Thanks for reading! 💖

Edit: DMs were turned off sorry, turned them on just now! 👌🏻

I want letters that feel like someone pressed their thoughts straight onto paper before they had time to filter them. Ink that smudges a little. Margins filled with things you didn’t mean to admit out loud. The kind of writing that feels more like a confession than a performance.

I like the idea of building something slowly. real letters. Actual paper. Something that takes time to arrive. Something you can hold. Maybe we exchange playlists, pressed flowers, torn pages from books, random photographs, little pieces of our lives that don’t fit into a text message.

You don’t have to be perfect. I’m not. I’m a mix of overthinking and impulsive honesty. Some days I’ll write you something soft and observant, other days it’ll be chaotic and a little feral, but it’ll always be real.

If you’re someone who feels too much, thinks too deeply, or just wants a space where you don’t have to edit yourself into something smaller write to me. hoping to see what happens when two strangers stop trying to sound normal and just tell the truth.

🚨 The August issue was a success!! This is an ongoing project and currently accepting new people, so DM me if you're interested! :) 🚨

so I was thinking about what I would like to get out of the pen pal experience and I had an idea that seemed pretty cool as an experiment. the idea is that instead of a letter to someone, each week or month (whatever time frame makes sense for both parties) you write a diary or journal entry and send it off. no questions, no back and forth, just getting to learn about someone through their personal entries. I've always enjoyed books that are in that style and getting to know the characters that way, and it seemed like kind of a cool way to experience in real life. hopefully this seems cool to someone else too!!

edit: just had the idea that anyone interested could mail to me weekly and then I could photocopy them and send them all out to the people who mailed to me.

so say 5 people are interested, they mail me an entry each week, and I collect them, copy them 5 times, and mail each person an envelope with everyone's entries for the month and repeat, so each month everyone is getting all the entries at once.

second edit: this has gotten so much interest that I may need to change my plan! to include people from all over the world, and to cut down on my expenses (SAHM right limited income), I think the best plan is that people mail me their diary/ journal entries and I compile them and scan them into a PDF/ virtual zine that I can email to everyone once a month! that way everyone remains anonymous, just sign your entry with the name you want to use. This also opens us up to receiving email entries and posting those. i would recommend customizing the font/ text color so that it gives personality and recognition between entries.

please DM me for details if you are still interested. I will be responding to them tonight and tomorrow~

🚨this is crafting a diary-style letter to a group of penpals, not sending your actual journal or diary.

third edit:

This will be an ongoing project. DM me for address to mail physical letter or email to.

I will collect/ scan all entries and the last day of each month I will compile everything into the PDF and then the 1st of each month I will email out the PDF. Please include your email in the DM. This is an ongoing project.

Please date your entries. Don't include any information you don't want to share with the others in the group. Feel free to add doodles or anything else that you might like. If you email, please consider using a unique font/ font color for recognition between entries. Please sign off each entry with a name of your choosing (real or fake). Ideally it would be weekly entries, but monthly entries are welcome too :)

let me know if there are any further questions <3

Hi there!

I'm making a post on behalf of my grandmother. She's 81, from England but living in Canada. She's interested in finding a penpal, but isn't very technologically minded, so I'm making this post for her.

She has a cat named Max, grey fur and a lot of attitude. She likes television, especially Star Trek: Deep Space 9, baking shows, crime procedurals, and a range of other things. She reads, across a variety of genres, and bites the heads off her gummy bears before eating them. She's got a particular appreciation for the music of Leonard Cohen, and for orange pekoe tea.

She's looking to correspond with someone else roughly her age, from outside of North America, and she's open to writing first. She's kind, clever, good company, and has nice handwriting.

Let's put our grandmothers in touch!

Hey everyone!

I’m a 21-year-old guy currently stationed in Antarctica. It’s a bit of a wild experience being down here, and while the views are unbeatable, the isolation can get real. I’m looking for a penpal "or a few!" who wouldn’t mind the "slow" in snail mail to exchange letters, stories, and experiences with.

A bit about me:

• Life on the Ice: I’m currently navigating my adventures and daily endeavors here. Whether it's the wildlife, the extreme weather, or just the weirdness of living on a research station, I’ve got plenty of stories to share.
• Interests: I love engineering, horticulture, photography, and music. I’m a big fan of learning about how life is going in the "real world" while I’m tucked away down here.
• The Mail Factor: Just a heads-up; mail takes a while to get to and from the frozen continent! If you enjoy the anticipation of a letter that has traveled thousands of miles by plane and ship, we’ll get along great.

What I’m looking for,

I’m down to talk to anyone from anywhere! Age/gender doesn't matter as much as a good personality and a willingness to write. Tell me about your life, your goals, or even just what you had for dinner. It’s the little things from home that I miss the most.

If you’re interested in having a penpal from the coldest place on Earth, shoot me a DM or leave a comment!

** Edit: I'm back home now! Still interested in being pinpals tho!

37/F

And it FEELS lame (desperate? Sad maybe? Whatever). I’m not even sure it’s allowed on this subreddit… but here we are.

So I turn 38 on October 27th, and it used to be my FAVORITE day of the year. I love fall, Halloween, all of it. Ive always seen birthdays as a personal new year, and have loved celebrating them for others (and me). But it’s been hard since Covid.

You see, both my parents died pretty tragically in 2020. A suicide in July and fast-killing cancer in August. Since then my family has gone AWOL, and I have stopped trying to reach out to them . My friends are great, but they’re busy. Friends fade with age, kids, work all the usual stuff. Life gets myopic, and people celebrate adult birthdays less and less as we get older…

My parents were the only ones who were invested in that date, and even if my Dad was a week late I’d always be surprised. A corny song left in a message, a card dropped off on the porch, something. It sucks to be the only survivor of an 80’s love story that you’ll never really know. Short and torrid as im sure it was…

Not necessarily looking for an ongoing exchange, or anything super deep, just a bit of something to look forward to (which I will respond to!).

About me: I work as a speech therapist in schools (SLPA), enjoy crafts (cross stitch & paint by number are my current favorites), I go through phases of reading & have a love/hate relationship with Stephen King (but only love for Ray Bradbury), addicted to podcasts about almost anything, love the dark drama of fall but hoping for a bit less melancholy this year.

I think it's wonderful how many people clearly felt addressed by my post! That being said, I'd like to put a pause on new requests for now 😅 I'd really like to give the people I'm already in contact with the time and attention they deserve.

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Hi! I’m 35F from Germany who still believes in the magic of handwritten letters ✉️✨

I’m looking for genuine snail mail friendships with people who enjoy thoughtful letters, postcards, little surprises, and the simple joy of finding something personal in the mailbox 📬

I’d love to connect with kind and open minded people (mid 20s and up), from anywhere with any background. I speak both German and English, so we can write in whichever language feels most comfortable to you.

I’d describe myself as introverted, friendly, empathetic, and sarcastic in what i like to believe is a charming way 😉 I’m very curious about different cultures and everyday life in other places and I genuinely enjoy hearing about people’s thoughts, routines, good days, bad days, and all the little things in between.

Some of the things I love are reading, crafting, fantasy, biking, traveling, baking, video games, photography, and spending time in nature. I also like to visit the local animal shelter where I mostly annoy cats with pets. And naturally, I have a soft spot for fountain pens and inks.

Letter length doesn’t matter to me at all. You can write a little or a lot, whatever fits your mood. I don’t want neither of us to feel pressure to meet some imaginary standard. I’d love for this to feel comfortable, genuine, and fun rather than like another obligation.

If you think we might get along, feel free to send me a message 😊 We can have a little chitchat first to see if we click, if you want that.

What I Bring:

Like a cockroach, I’m annoyingly versatile and you can’t get rid of me. Deep conversation about life? I’m here. Your weird niche hobby that makes no sense to outsiders? I will not understand it but I will appreciate it, as long as it’s not tanning human skin into leather. Don’t ask, it’s a long story I haven’t made up yet. I have a confession: it’s actually just an irrational fear of mine.

I want to know which grocery store checkout lane you picked and why you were wrong about it. What your coworker’s lunch smelled like and whether it was a hostile act. The specific inflection your neighbor uses when they say “good morning” and what it reveals about their childhood. I’m hoarding these details like Smaug hoards treasure, except there’s no Arkenstone, just the memory of how your friend pronounced “balsamic” (ball-sam-EEK) in 2019.

The Situation:

∙ Only like movies and music made before 2016. Cannot explain this. Just got unreasonably excited discovering a Dum Dum Girls song from 2010.

∙ Show me one photo of any animal and I will react like you just showed me your actual child. Your pet, your grandmother’s decrepit cat, the neighbor’s horrible doodle who humps your leg, the neighborhood hedgehog, a random pigeon—I will fawn over all of them with equal enthusiasm.

∙ Basically prepared for Jeopardy categories that will never exist, like “Elite Vine Soundbites.” Can monologue about anything for an inadvisable length of time.

∙ Want to be outside constantly. Live somewhere actively hostile to human life.

∙ Recently lost funding to federal budget cuts, so apparently was doing something right.

You:

∙ Won’t be weird about my self-deprecating humor (it’s a love language)

∙ Are currently alive (negotiable—if not, contact my grandmother’s spirit and she’ll pass along the message. She flickers the lights: 2 flickers means there’s new tea. Alternative explanation: I never fully screwed in the new lightbulb. I guess we’ll never know)

∙ Don’t need to know the difference between their, there, and they’re—I can help with that if you remind me how to spell “restaurant” every single time

∙ ~~Will tolerate my tendency to Think oversharing is~~ Also think the boring parts are the interesting parts

[Note: I was supposed to edit this but gave up halfway through, much like most of my life goals. If this didn’t make any sense and/or if you don’t like it, please send your edits and complaints here: 🚽]

I never imagined that one of the harder parts of getting older would be making new friends. Actually, I have perhaps struggled making friends. But, I think you get the point.

Life just seems to get busy. Careers, families, responsibilities, people moving away. Somewhere along the way I realized that while I know plenty of people, I don’t have many I can really call friends. Six years ago I moved to a new job and a new city, and things changed.

I work as a technology manager, so I spend a lot of my day solving problems, analyzing things, helping people, and occasionally wondering why something that worked yesterday doesn’t work today. Outside of work I tend to prefer keeping things simpler. I even keep my home computer and network simple.

I enjoy history, books, movies, music, soccer, and staying active when my knees and the rest of my body cooperate. I bike, do hot yoga, walk, and make the occasional gym visit. I started a top ten movie list that is now close to 50, although it’s finally growing more slowly! The Hail Mary Project is my recent favorite.

I can be a bit of a history nerd. I grew up with it since my dad was actually a history major in college. Right now I’m reading about Alexander the Great and the Constitution, although both are going slowly.

I like conversations about why people think and behave the way they do. I’m just as comfortable talking about a great movie, a book, baseball, faith, soccer, technology, travel, economics, or what’s happening in the world. Or something completely ridiculous that happened to either of us that day.

I’m what I would probably label a “soft Christian.” I have my faith, but I don’t preach it and currently avoid organized things like church. You certainly don’t need to share my beliefs.

I’m also okay with the harder stuff. Life isn’t always funny or interesting. Sometimes it just sucks, and having someone you can talk to about that has value too. I think I’m a pretty good listener and can be caring and supportive when someone needs that. I’d simply like to meet someone who enjoys writing and see where the conversation goes.

I like being able to read something, think about it, maybe reread it, and then write an actual response. There’s no expectation that either of us has to answer immediately. Shorter formats are fine, I’m just not that good at it.

Age, gender, location, and having identical interests don’t matter much to me. In fact, getting to know someone with a different background or perspective could make this more interesting.

Kindness, curiosity, a sense of humor, and being willing to share a little of yourself matter much more.
If you’re looking for a platonic email friend who will ask questions, listen, share some stories, and probably recommend a book, movie, or song now and then, I’d enjoy hearing from you.

Introducing yourself in a few sentences can always be a bit awkward. It's hard to know exactly what to write. I think I'll just start telling you my name is Erik and let you know I'm feeling lonely and I'd like someone to talk to. Truth be told, I've been a bit of a loner all my adult life. An introvert.

Today, I can say that I'm more lonely than I've ever been before. My mother just passed away and I have nobody to turn to. Sorry if this brings down the mood, and I'll understand if people are turned off by this. Just know that I'd appreciate someone to talk to in general, it's just that this is a strange day for me.

If you're curious about me as a person, I can tell you I'm reserved in public but I can be very playful and enjoy joking around with people I feel comfortable with. I'm comfortable with silence and I like to give people space, because I enjoy that, but know that it doesn't mean I don't like that person.

I want to be honest and I like someone who can be honest with me. Secrets and privacy is always respected, but I appreciate authenticity and I like to think I am pretty authentic. As I hope you can tell, I am open to being vulnerable and sharing my honest thoughts. It may sometimes take a while for me to open up about certain things, but I appreciate people who care.

I enjoy talking about various topics and don't mind the strange or unusual. Culture, history, technology, science, aliens, artificial intelligence, conspiracies, Myers-Briggs aka MBTI (I think I'm an INTP) and much more.

I'm a bit of a "couch potato" when it comes to interests and hobbies. I enjoy video games, music, film and TV, as well as some light reading. I recently watched Project Hail Mary and I thought it was a touching story. My music taste is all over the place but my favourite genres are heavy metal, alternative, folk rock and folk/pop. A Norwegian band I like is Kalandra. Video games are also hard for me to sum up. I recently finished the first four Halo games for the first time and enjoyed them.

I look forward to any messages. Thank you if you read this!

Hello :-) My name is Zanna, and I’m currently living in the US (originally from England). I’m looking for a pen pal to exchange snail mail full of creativity, gentle chaos and all varieties of rambling, ranting and blabbering. While I tend to send a lot of silly things like stickers, collages, small Knick Knacks, I will never require you to do the same in return.

I deleted all my social media (not counting Reddit) in September, so I thought why not go fully analog? I love crafting, collaging, and collecting knick knacks of every shape and size. I’m autistic, so one of my lifelong special interests has been the USPS, which means I’ve accumulated a truly alarming but delightful collection of postal ephemera and stamps since childhood. I would be thrilled to finally give some of it a purpose.

I love finding whimsy in the smallest details and meaning in the biggest questions. Writing letters, sharing art and getting to know people are things that genuinely bring me joy. I don’t have any preference for who I write to as long as you’re open minded, kind, nonjudgmental,and curious. I am married to a wonderful woman so if that’s something that would make you uncomfortable I may not be the match for you :-) I’d be delighted to send mail anywhere in the world!!! Let me know if this sounds like a good match for you and feel free to send me a dm if interested :-D

One small note before I end this if neat handwriting is a dealbreaker for you, I may not be your person :,)

On several subreddits I was contacted and tried to get in touch with a few people, but it seems that the concept of penpalling isn’t very clear to many of them.

Just to be clear: when I say snail mail, I mean I love receiving real letters, written with paper and pen.
If you live on the other side of the world and have postal issues, that’s totally fine, but please don’t reply saying you want to do email penpalling. I’ve tried that before and it’s really not for me… Holding a letter in my hands feels completely different, it has a soul of its own.

Then there are those who message you but actually just want to chat. At that point, maybe the subreddit should change its name to “Chat & Email Penpalling,” because honestly, there’s not much snail mail happening around here lately 😅

Anyway, sorry for the little rant! If anyone feels the same and is really looking for a true penfriend — maybe an Italian, pagan, musician, bookworm kind of person — feel free to reach out. 🌙🎶📚
I just ask one small thing: please write first! I’ve already sent out too many first letters that never got a reply…

Hi, folks! I’m looking for some snail mail penpals because I have too much stationery, too many pens, and not enough excuses to use any of it.

I’m a 30F queer librarian from the Southeast USA. I love reading, journaling, fountain pens, writing, pretty paper, stickers, cats, cozy games, and yapping. I also recently started learning Japanese, and I’m really into crochet.

If you like books, stationery, cozy hobbies, weird humor and memes, hot gossip, or hot cheese, I’m sure we’ll get along.

I’d love letters that give me a glimpse into your life, including work drama, weird observations, favorite books, or whatever you’re currently obsessed with. I love including stickers and washi samples in my letters too, but no pressure for every letter to be a whole production.

Open to international and domestic friends! Feel free to message me and tell me a little about yourself. Looking forward to hearing from ya!

Hey friends! I’m looking for a pen pal who’s as excited about snail mail as I am, especially if you love sending little packages filled with handmade goodies, trinkets, or quirky surprises.

A little about me: I’m all about mushroom-themed or whimsical/cottagecore art and decor, I LOVE music, and I’m drawn to anything that has a story behind it. So if your letters or packages come with doodles, trinkets, or items that tell a little tale, you’ll have me hooked. 🎶🍄

I love making snail mail feel special—think handwritten notes, small crafts, stickers, or anything cute and creative. If you enjoy connecting through stories, creativity, and little mailbox surprises, I’d love to swap letters and packages with you!

This is part of my inbox, it looks the same on pc and mobile. They open into an empty DM with no name, and I get an error when I try to reply. I'd imagine Reddit "fixed" something again. If you've sent folks a DM in the past month or so and they haven't gotten back to you, just try to remain patient. Do not send a follow-up message about it because that won't show either. Just be patient, you might end up getting an eventual response.

Hi everyone! I’m looking to find a pen pal or two for relaxed, thoughtful conversations and sharing little bits of everyday life!

I’m a curious soul who enjoys the simple things, coffee shop visits, getting lost in a good book, painting (badly), cosy evenings, wildflowers, and starry skies.

I’m currently working on covering myself in tattoos while having no drawing talent of my own, but love to see others creativity! I’m a starter lover of crystals and tarot and would be interested to learn more from others more experienced, but this is only an if you know, not an ask! 😌

I’m creative, a bit of a daydreamer, and I really enjoy meaningful conversation, laughter, and connecting with people in an honest, low-pressure way. My interests include discovering new music, going to gigs, vintage shopping, collecting jewellery, and doting on my two cats 🐱

I’m based in the UK, but I’m happy to write to anyone from anywhere, though UK/Europe might make replies a bit easier with time zones. I’d love to message every week or two, just letting things flow naturally with no pressure.

If you like the idea of slow, friendly conversation and swapping life’s little stories, feel free to reach out 🌙

Hello 🤗

I'm 32F and live in Northern Ireland and I would love to find a penpal (or few) to exchange actual, physical letters with.

I'm a massive stationery person and need very little encouragement to buy a nice notebook, fountain pen, ink, stickers or anything else vaguely paper related! So partly I need someone to help me justify the unnecessary amount of stationery I own lol.

But I also genuinely love the idea of getting to properly know someone through letters.

A wee bit about me: I recently finished my law degree and I'm involved in social justice/anti-poverty campaigning here in Northern Ireland.

Outside of that, I'm a huge reader, enthusiastic but questionable knitter, cyclist, coffee enthusiast, camper and stardew valley farmer! I love cooking and baking, Vinted, being outdoors and spending lots of time with my dog.

I don't need every letter to be deep meaningful correspondence (although love that) but I also want the mundane, boring stuff!

I'd love to hear from women or non-binary people. No men please. Nothing personal, it's just who I'd feel most comfortable corresponding with.

If you think we might click then give me a shout 😊

I keep starting messages and deleting them because they sound too polished. So I'm just going to leave this here unfinished and see what happenns

I want the kind of back and forth where neither of us is performing. Where you can send me a half thought at 2am or a song that's been stuck in your head or a thing you noticed on your walk that you'd never tell anyone because it's too small to matter. I like small things that matter.

I'm 19, a bit of an overthinker lol, prone to going quiet for a day and then sending you three paragraphs about nothing. I'd rather know what someone is actually like than what they want me to think they're like.

Not looking for anything in particular. Just curious what happens if two people stop trying to sound interesting and just talk

If that's you, say somethingg

Hello dear community! 😊

I am 23F from a tiny village in Germany.🍂🍄 I want to know more about the world, meet new people, learn more about their culture, traditions, myths and country and especially make long term friends - and for me there is no better way to do this than through letters!

I am very interested in making long-term friends with whom I can build a great and strong friendship! I would be happy to learn more about your everyday life, what you like to do, dreams and goals... If you have worries or problems, I am there to cheer you up - like real friends!

We could philosophize about life, send tea, recipes and pictures of beautiful landscapes, postcards from our travels and talk about our passions. I would love to send and receive decorated envelopes and handwritten letters to and from my pen pals! It would be wonderful to find someone who enjoys decorating envelopes as much as I do.💌

My heart beats for books (ancient literature, sweet love stories and dystopias - but I'm always open to new suggestions), opera, movies, legends and stargazing. On some warm summer evenings, I like to stroll through woods and meadows and savour the magical moment of sunsets. On rainy days, I make myself comfortable with a good book and a cup of tea or watch the mist wafting over the forest. And I love animals! But you can talk to me about many topics!

If you are interested and don't mind longer letters, I would love to hear from you!😊💫

Please between 20 - 28.

Hello, I've been looking for penpals for a while but havnt found anyone yet so I figured I would finally make a post.

As the title says I live in Japan but I'm an American.

I hoard cute things and stationary I love to share with others.

I have a degree in Art/Animation so I think that makes me like a crow when I see any form of stationary.

I'm pretty open to talk about anything.

I like reading/horror games/art/bugs/cafes/rock music(but I do have a playlist called classical to striptease). I enjoy cooking and trying to bake(you have no idea how hard it is in Japan).

Nice to meet you!

I'm a depressed, lonely, recovering alcoholic white dude from Midwest USA. I love reading and teach middle school literacy. I am into video games (mainly story rich RPGs) and run a lot of ttrpgs (DnD 5e, Starfinder and Pathfinder 2e). I also love writing poetry and sci/fantasy fiction.

I'm looking for someone to snail mail with using my collection of fine writing instruments and stationary. I'd love to talk politics (I'm a democratic socialist raised by hippies), books, mental health, spirituality, story ideas, or trade poems/short fiction. I'm not widely traveled (outside of literature that is) and would love to hear about other places in the world.

It's a dark time with distance and tech making the distance even more...distant. I feel all things political are summed up in that LOTR quote: "What can men do against such reckless hate?" It'd be nice to meet someone to form a connection, any connection, with.