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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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

I have tried a few pen pal sites in the past, but Global Pen Friends is the best :) there are no annoying ads, and I really like to see what categories I have in common with the others!

Penpal ChevyColoradoGirl

53 (Female)

It’s a really great social platform to make global friends and getting to know strangers and their countries and cultures. It’s overall a lovely site! 100/100

Penpal Nisefff

24 (Female)

This website helped me find amazing friends and people I could talk to. I loved sharing my experiences and hearing about others lives in different parts of the world:)

Penpal Applebloom01

16 (Female)

I love that I'm able to find people that I can chat with across the country all in one place this is very interesting site and I have so many pen pals now and long-lasting friends for the rest of my life.

Penpal Cat Chamblee

46 (Female)

I have linked up with people around the globe and they have enriched my life with their letters (snail mail). There is nothing like getting a proper letter!

Penpal MoonlightSparkle

52 (Female)

I so many different interesting people from here. Knowledge on different cultures, languages and different interesting countries can gain. The main reason I join this site is making GOOD friends. And I found lot of them.

Penpal Pahamethu

12 (Female)

I made a few good friends here. And also met them in real life later. Thank you global penfriends. Also the new features are exciting.

Penpal Watermelon Rose'

21 (Female)

I like coming here often to see new friends, I like postcards and it's nice to exchange them. Gosto de está sempre vindo aqui para ver os novos amigos gosto de cartão postal e é bom trocar com eles

Penpal Mila lopes

20 (Female)

I have thoroughly enjoyed this website because I’ve made a few friendships that I hope to continue for a long time. I love that there are security features in place to keep everyone safe and that trust has to be built first before personal information is shared.

Penpal RainbowMama39

39 (Female)

I like the concept and the idea of it and I feel safe when I'm chatting with poeple. I would like to send photos in chats.

Penpal annika11

17 (Female)