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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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.

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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 very much like Global Penfriends because it gives good service. Global Penfriends is highly recommended.

Penpal Missms

55 (Female)

Very good nice people. Thank you GPF!

Penpal christinemcnab

67 (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 being able to have a safe website where I can find new friends to write to! It's so fun and I appreciate that it is safe as well.

Penpal Narwhal2.0

12 (Female)

I have found nice people in Global Penfriends. I hope I could one day make a snail mail penpal beacause I love to write on a sheep of paper and receive foreign letters.

Penpal Fatima B

43 (Female)

Efficient and easy to use. Well vetted and safe. A wide variety of people in every age range with similar interests and hobbies.After my husband died I was lonely but now have pen pals to email, this makes life more interesting.

Penpal Quilterfan

86 (Female)

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Penpal Rairai

16 (Female)

I have spent a year and a half on global pen friends and I cannot express to you how safe and kind this website is I definitely recommended it!!

Penpal Katie13

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)

Made one friend here already The old school type of online connections is unique like it and how this site also maintains utmost privacy too.

Penpal Tanniee 01

20 (Female)