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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Your profile describes you and your penpal preferences.

Find a Penpal

Search Global Penfriends to find the right penpals.

Start Writing

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

i love to see people here as it's real and i can get more friends without any doubt that he/she is a scum

Penpal liliana christanti

69 (Female)

I really appreciate your safety concerns & recommendations, and I love the ability to choose if I wanna penpal with male or female users

Penpal Viboslava

23 (Female)

Love that worldwide penpals sign up for this site. I have not had a chance to engage recently but thankful its still here for me to use as time permits

Penpal Leilani_USA

76 (Female)

m truly excited to join Global Penfriend and connect with sincere people from around the world. I believe this platform offers a real chance to build meaningful friendships based on openness and shared values. I’m confident that through genuine conversations, I will find a true and lasting friend here

Penpal Lya77

48 (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 love the overall safety on here. I have never been contacted by anyone outside of my preferred age group and I feel like it is the perfect level of anonymity considering that we are all strangers who want to find a penpal. I do wish however to some day be able to stay in contact with more people without buying anything. I would also love to add more profile information regarding hobbies and other topics of interest. I would also love appreciate a language learning swap filter (for example, I want to learn Spanish and therefore would love to teach a person who knows Spanish my native tongue). Other than that I’m quite happy and I actually like how there is no app to directly contact people 24/7, since I feel like the whole point of having PenPals in 2026 is to not be available all the time and instead rewind for your new friends what happened over a span of time.

Penpal sarah.needs.her.tonin

20 (Female)

I originally signed up for this site out of boredom, and I've never expected to make such good friends on here! All the people are very friendly, and they respond quickly most of the time! The only thing that kind of bothers me is that you can only see your last 5 active conversations, unless you pay. Other than that, it's amazing!

Penpal talkabtanniething

13 (Female)

nice platform to meet and make new friends from all over the world. met some cool people here it's very nice!

Penpal jess03

22 (Female)

This program is giving me the opportunity to have contact with some pen pals that I wouldn’t have if I wasn’t using Global Penfriends.

Penpal Suzie666

62 (Female)

this app was very convenient when i started to want to have a pen pal!! my pen pal is very fun and I'm glad I have her.

Penpal RE10

11 (Female)