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.

Create a Profile

Your profile describes you and your penpal preferences.

Find a Penpal

Search Global Penfriends to find the right penpals.

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.

Learn More

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.

Join Now

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

Returning to site after time off. Looking forward to finding new snail mail friends for the New Year. Thank you!

Penpal Shelly Fredrickson

65 (Female)

I already have a friend who I met here, and I talk to another amazing people thanks to this website!

Penpal imdora

31 (Female)

I enjoy writing to people and learning about them and their culture. Great way to make friendships! Such a variety of people to get to know!

Penpal GimmeGirl

72 (Female)

I have find so many new pen pal friends through this site, it feels very safe and it’s easy as everyone is like-minded wanting to find fellow penpals, very glad to be hear

Penpal MagicMagpie

38 (Female)

I like global pen friends because it helps me with learning new things about different countries. I've made very nice friends of of this website. I would 100% recommend this for ew friends.

Penpal Arella

10 (Female)

This is such a cool site, well managed and I would even say needed in today's world. Its nice to have a place where I feel safe making friends from afar, especially for this art form of letters which seems to outdated to most people. Love it!

Penpal YouCanCallMeVal

29 (Female)

I really love this website, it helped me find a new pen pal who I send letters to and swap sweets from our countries with!

Penpal JoJoTheFirst

11 (Female)

I can completely relate to how momentous this is. Finding a friend from another country has been a dream of mine since childhood, and seeing that dream finally come true feels so fulfilling and special. It’s amazing to share that connection across distances!

Penpal abigswiftie2011

14 (Female)

I joined for meeting new people and send letters to different countries 😍😍😍😍I LOVE GLOBAL PENFRIENDS ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Penpal Mimi slays

11 (Female)

This is a good site to use when you're looking for pen pals. It really works for me after trying other sites. I haven't experienced any technical issues.

Penpal Nthabi P

47 (Female)