Global Penfriends

Find Snail mail and internet friends from around the world. Safe, secure and family friendly.

Find new International Friends

Our penpals are from all over the world, interested in new friendships, exchanging culture, learning a language, travel and education. Our snail mail members enjoy exchanging Letters, Postcards, Mail-Art, Candy and much more. Global Penfriends is a family friendly, secure place to meet new pen pals. All ages are welcome (School age to Seniors) Correspond by old fashioned snail mail or internet.

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Correspond with your penpals via our secure online messaging system or start sending letters to your penpal by post and become snail mail pen pals.

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International friendship by Post or Internet

Global Penfriends has been connecting Penpals by post and internet for over 25 years. Start writing a letter or send a message to a new friend today.

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Members can select penpals based on common interests such as, international friendship, snail mail exchange, language partner, travel friends, candy swaps, mail art, parcel exchange, postcard exchange.

What our members say

Everyone is so friendly and welcoming. Joining is the best thing I ever did. I would highly recommend to anyone wishing to find a penal

Penpal Lisa43

44 (Female)

I found the most wonderful penpals here! I can only recommend it. It might take some time until you find the people who match but it's the same in real life isn't it?

Penpal Rose Lisa

49 (Female)

The overall idea is really good. But you could bring some UX improvements. Make it more obvious how to use the ‘post received’ ‘post sent’ feature. The members who gave permission for their address to be used for snail mail credits forget and then they get super surprised when they received a letter. Make it more prominent as well. I inderstand the business model of display ads, but on mobile it almost blocks certain touch areas that are important to the flow. So give more space and overlap less the banners with the essential actions. But overall I really like the platform.

Penpal Ni24

36 (Female)

I found several penpals with globalpenfriends and become great friends with people all around the world! I‘m so obsessed with it (even tho its a little annoying that you can only see last 5 active chats)

Penpal echoofstars

19 (Female)

I have many pen friends and Im starting to learn a language now. I really enjoy it because I can meet them one day and because we get along its great. I was a bit nervous giving them my address but because of how safe it is everything was amazing. Overall 10/10 defo join

Penpal PetLover78

10 (Female)

everything is fine. i don’t use this website very often but when i do i really enjoy it. people are a little introverted tho

Penpal Komarzycalola

17 (Female)

The site has enabled me to make great connections. I have friends from different countries, and I am able to learn different cultures

Penpal Assumpta

55 (Female)

It was fantastic to see the world and the people who live in it. I wish I could see everyone in the world.

Penpal JudgeJudy

28 (Female)

I made friends from different parts of the world, found some interested in snail mail, even mail art! I'll recommend a 100 percent !

Penpal Cro1156

24 (Female)

It’s a really good website and super easy to finish people to talk to!But the only issue is the communication, you have to constantly refresh the website just to see if you’ve had a message or not and I get you can use emails but it’s still a pain to go on emails every single time I’m wondering if I’ve gotten a message back.And then it’s also very annoying when people don’t reply because their account has been inactive for a while but it doesn’t state that anywhere or suddenly alert the person in a better way that a have a message after a really long time.over all an amazing website and I’ve gained a lot of penpals from it!

Penpal Jocelynnnnnnnn

14 (Female)