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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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

individuals may be different in color, size, interest and taste but at the end of the day getting to know others is always a welcome feeling.

Penpal Humble 7

45 (Female)

It was fantastic to see the world and the people who live in it. I wish I could see everyone in the world.

Penpal JudgeJudy

28 (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)

I have met three good friends on this site. I recommend it to everyone who wants to make friends and learn new things.

Penpal Kandie

72 (Female)

This a good site for friends,chat to people from different countries.i would recommend this for anyone who likes to connect with people.

Penpal Gemma000

55 (Female)

I was able to make friends all around the world, they were really nice and we had good conversations, Thanks to this website !!

Penpal Summer_I love

17 (Female)

Very interesting learning about others around the world. I prefer writing personal letters.

Penpal Cowgirl

57 (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)

It's about having friendships and talking . It's something beyond happiness something that cant replace. I really love to write letters and postcards. Thank you

Penpal Sesmi

16 (Female)