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.

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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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Popular Penpal Groups

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

It's a good place to make friends Here on Global penfriends And it can be free and safe to use if money is tight. Thank you

Penpal A kind soul

41 (Female)

I joined because my sister had joined while searching up how to get a snail mail penpal. She found this awesome site- and now she has something like 7 penpals! It's really nice because it's safe, really fun to communicate with others, and Awesome!!!

Penpal BestTree

14 (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)

Great when you want to find serious penpal and postcard pal from all around the world. And the page is understandable.

Penpal Sahara86

39 (Female)

Its a great experience and a hobby.Also your security system is perfect.Thank you so much for your great service.

Penpal Saheli0206

13 (Female)

I love everything about this site but I wish it was an app. most of it is easy to use but the text feature makes it a little hard to use.

Penpal SillyGoose1105

14 (Female)

This website is a great way to meet new friends, snail mail penpals, email penpals, etc. I joined to try to make some new friends before travelling overseas, and I have made some wonderful friends through this site.

Penpal AussieBex

43 (Female)

I originally came to this site in search of an Irish or Scottish penpal. Instead, I was contacted by a very interesting gal in Toronto, Canada! We wrote back and forth by email for over a year.

Penpal Madelene Mellen

74 (Female)

This site is asking. I originally thought to try penpals to get my kids interested in it. I don't want expecting to meet my best friend on this site. And no we didn't know each other beforehand. Thank you Global Penpals!!!!

Penpal Shadow_flower

39 (Female)

after trying many with disspointing results, i tried global pensfriends and i am happily writing letters to an exchange penpal!!

Penpal such.olivia

15 (Female)