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 been writing paper letters to many countries since childhood. There is a large selection of friends, everything is clearly organized. There are photos, maps, information about new friends and much more. I have found great friends here and I am grateful for that. I like reading about their countries, their interests. I would recommend this application to everyone. It is a very friendly environment.

Penpal Idina

71 (Female)

It’s really safe!!! it’s really good for making friends with other people like you from all around the world

Penpal Helena27

14 (Female)

Clean, easy to use website that doesn't give me the creep factor because of the vetting process. I've already met several amazing people!

Penpal Bexie_r

39 (Female)

Great easy way to make friends from your own country to around anywhere in the world

Penpal FireFly7788

48 (Female)

Sometimes it can be a bit confusing, but overall its been good for connecting. Helpful when letting someobe know a letters been sent and received

Penpal Kasey3

60 (Female)

It's good to meet new people all over the world. This improves language skills and gives perspective to new cultures

Penpal Nala21

53 (Female)

I like this website Thank you Global Penfriends!

Penpal Too tuff

13 (Female)

i met so many friendly people here, adn 2 of them became my penpals! would highly recommend to those looking for friends and penpals!

Penpal nonexistentperson

15 (Female)

Ive been here about several months, and I have very nice pen pals i regularly keep in touch with. The variety of countries is very good. My pen pals write with a nice frequency and always have interesting things to say. Always enjoy getting a pen friends mail in my mailbox!

Penpal Silvana0626

55 (Female)

Encountered some super amazing people here. Some of them are my buddies now. I am really thankful to team GPF for this platform

Penpal Almost Enlightened

42 (Female)