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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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

Global Penfriends has been very helpful for finding penpals! It has a very simple way to find people similar to you and makes it very easy to contact them. The only problem is that some things cost money, which then doesn't allow many people to do certain things on the website. Besides that, it is a very good site for finding pen pals!

Penpal JUSTaGirlWhoWantsSomeLetters

14 (Female)

Honestly I don't regret joining the site. I decided to join one day in math class. So far, the site has given me one very close friend from Finland! I enjoy that you can enforce the age groups that can chat with you. I feel less lonely now since I can talk with people around the globe, not just in my town.

Penpal ven0mshard

15 (Female)

Idk dude, i just like making friends And um its cool i guess?

Penpal Whatdoievendohere23

11 (Female)

I decided to find someone to send card on Global Penfriends. I found a girl in Germany and I send often card. I love receiving card too. Thank you GPF

Penpal Liladventure

28 (Female)

Its very easy to navigate things, ensures safety when verifying profiles, no paywall, and i can find people of my age without being called out for being too young!

Penpal Koinks

15 (Female)

This site is so amazing! It has honestly helped me learn so much about the world from others perspectives and make new friends! The site is incredibly safe, easy to navigate, and it really helps that the staff and other pen friends are so kind! Thank you so much Global Penfriends for introducing me to a side of life I otherwise would've never known!

Penpal Imjustalittleperson

18 (Female)

Global Penfriends is a great app for making new friends and learning about different cultures. I have made a great friend on here and it is amazing that by writing letters you can really feel conected to a person even though they live far away. I think that the app is well layed out and easy to navigate. If one thing could be changed, for me it would be to have something that pops up saying 'are you sure you want to delete your profile'(or something like that) because once I was trying to modify my profile but acidentaly clicked on 'delete profile' and that was it, my profile was gone. It would be good to have some kind of confirmation before one deletes their profile, just incase of acidents. Overall I think Global Penfriends is a great website.

Penpal Martha15

13 (Female)

I didn't know what to expect as a free member, but I have five pen pals now from all over. It's a lovely web site, and it feels very safe.

Penpal ChandaPanda

46 (Female)

I made lots of friends on here. The site is easy to navigate, and I feel safe on this website from weirdos. Thank you.

Penpal evielovesmusic

16 (Female)

I am wonderfuly grateful for this site. I have found 4 penfriends that I am thankful and delighted for. This site is amazing for keeping us safe and I appreciate all that you do in that capacity. Thank you for the gift of friends in a safe and happy choices.

Penpal Jwen527

63 (Female)