Find Snail mail and internet friends from around the world. Safe, secure and family friendly.
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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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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If this was an app it would be a lot easier to use and you would have even more people using it. Love it!
I really appreciate your safety concerns & recommendations, and I love the ability to choose if I wanna penpal with male or female users
Very good, I just wish it were easier to make friends. I loved the site’s aesthetics and functionality. Muito bom, só queria que fosse mais fácil fazer amigos, eu amei a estética e funcionalidade do site
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.
I love chatting with everyone on this site! Very interesting to see how others are in other parts of the world. Although it is a little slow meeting people to chat with, I still find this site very enjoyable! I also love how safe it is.
it's nice to find friends from another country, especially through letters! (there's also other way if you dont want letters) it's so exciting
I have connected with lovely pen pals so far and will continue to participate, letter writing brings me such joy, connections with strangers that can become life long friends!
One day last year i recieved 2 letters from japan! its so cool and amazing how i can talk to others across the world C:
My experience so far has been ok and cool. I made a new friend and I look forward to finding more as I use this site. Thank you. Though, I have not meeting my goal : learning a language
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.
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