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====== Snail Mail Links ======
Resources and interesting bits for people who love letters, postcards, and so on.

See also: [[links:zines|]]

===== Pen Pals & Letter-Friends =====
[[https://thelondonletters.com/products/londonletterspenpalclub|London Letters Pen Pal Club]] -- £25.00 membership, they match you with a pal based on interests

[[https://www.letterinthepost.com/|Letter in the Post]] -- £14.99 membership; you get a list of ALL members after joining, they don't match you personally.

[[https://www.globalpenfriends.com/|Global Pen Friends]] -- snail mail or email options, plus fun stuff like mail art swaps. Okay for kids! (Kids don't have adult penpals.)

[[https://www.ipfworld.com/|International Pen Friends]] -- 1 year membership is $25-35 for a single person (depends on age). They match you with 12-14 members, based around your age and interests. Obviously you can keep mailing each other after your membership ends.
Found this funny note on the application page: "we are unfortunately unable to provide a penfriend list containing addresses of only male penfriends to people aged 18 years and older due to the demand for male penfriends currently exceeding our supply." ?????

[[https://www.sassociations.net/|Sassociations]] -- penpal personal ad directory; everything kinda just out in the open which feels a bit strange but it's also how we used to do things way back when, so...

[[https://www.reddit.com/r/penpals/|r/penpals]] -- Reddit group where you can post ads. They also have a [[https://www.reddit.com/r/penpals/comments/1bcyte7/snail_mail_response_team_version_20/|one-off letter club]] if you just want a random letter without an expectation of an exchange. 

[[https://geekgirlpenpals.com/|Geek Girls Pen Pals]] -- free, you sign up for specific rounds which happen each month.

[[https://www.letter-exchange.com/|The Letter Exchange]] -- submit an ad to the newsletter to get pals; 3 issues published per year and a year's membership is $23.00 USD/$24.00 CAN/$26.50 int'l. Interesting privacy option: you can send your letters to the company for forwarding and not have to use your own address. [[https://www.letter-exchange.com/free-forwarding.html|More on that here]].

[[https://victorianletterwritersguild.blogspot.com/|Victorian Letter Writers Guild]] -- group exchanges every month or so; $10 membership for a year. Women only! 

[[https://www.interpals.net/|InterPals]] -- virtual penpals, emphasizes language practice.

[[https://epistolia.com/|Epistolia]] -- free(?), host matches you with a pen pal and you have 15 days to send a letter.

[[https://extraordinarypenpal.com/|League of Extraordinary Penpals]] -- $42 USD annual membership, or else $7 USD monthly.

==== Prison Letters ====
[[https://www.blackandpink.org/penpal-newsletter/|Black and Pink Penpal]] -- exchange letters with prisoners (one of the few on here that allow it).

[[https://solitarywatch.org/about-lifelines/|Lifelines to Solitary]] -- another prisoner letter exchange program, focused on prisoners in solitary confinement.

===== Postcards =====
[[https://www.postcrossing.com/|PostCrossing]] -- send postcards to people around the world, and get postcards from people! Free except for postage. 

[[https://www.reddit.com/r/PostCardExchange/|r/PostCardExchange]] -- Reddit group for postcard exchangers.

===== Local Letter-writing Clubs and Events =====
[[https://lwsdirectory.com/|Directory of Letter Writing Societies]] -- find local groups

[[https://azsnailmailsociety.carrd.co/|AZ Snail Mail Society (Arizona)]] -- events every so often.

[[http://coloradocorrespondence.co/|Colorado Correspondence Coalition (Boulder, CO)]] -- monthly meet-ups. 

[[https://www.meetup.com/The-Snail-Mail-Revolution/|The Snail Mail Revolution (Chicago, IL)]] -- monthly events & swaps.

[[https://www.facebook.com/ChchLetterWritersSociety|Christchurch Letter Writers Society (Christchurch, NZ)]] -- bi-monthly meet-ups, perhaps?

[[https://campsite.bio/coastsidelws|Coastside Letter Writers Society (Half Moon Bay, CA)]] -- monthly meetups at the local library.

[[https://lapenpalclub.com/|LA Penpal Club (Los Angeles, CA)]] -- monthly meetups, sometimes more often.

[[https://www.facebook.com/pdxcc/|Portland Correspondence Co-Op (Portland, OR)]] -- monthly events every third Thursday.

[[https://www.instagram.com/p.s.correspondencesociety/|Puget Sound Correspondence Society (Seattle, WA & Tacoma, WA)]] -- twice-monthly events, one in each town (roughly). 

[[https://paperseahorse.com/products/tampa-bay-letter-writers-membership|Tampa Bay Letter Writers]] -- $50/yr for membership, meets monthly the last Saturday of the month at The Paper Seahorse store.

[[https://www.instagram.com/torontoletterwriters/|Toronto Letter Writers Society]] -- monthly events hosted at Toronto's First Post Office.

[[https://wonderpens.ca/collections/workshops|Wonder Pens Letter Writing Club (Toronto, O.N.)]] -- monthly events, $10 CAD to reserve a spot and then you get a $10 gift card when you show up.

[[https://www.instagram.com/letter_writing_club/|Letter Writing Club (Vallejo, CA)]] -- monthly meet-ups, check their Instagram for locations and dates.

[[https://www.assemblyoftext.com/pages/letter-writing-club|The Regional Assembly of Text Letter Writing Club (Vancouver, B.C.)]] -- First Thursday of every month; free, including supplies!

===== Mail Art, Swaps & Such =====
[[https://www.swap-bot.com/|Swap-Bot]] -- exchange packages of things (mostly art supplies), or letters/postcards/etc. I actually used to use this website maybe 20 years ago as a teen, so it's great that it's still around now. omg my login still works and everything.

[[https://www.snailmailfriends.com/|Snail Mail Friends]] -- basic membership is free, you need swap credits to do swaps which you can purchase. Yearly membership with unlimited swap credits is only $14.99.

[[https://www.perfectstrangers.com/|Perfect Strangers]] -- parcel-swapping website that runs seasonally. Might be stagnant as they haven't updated since 2024.

[[https://iuoma-network.ning.com/|International Union of Mail-Artists (Ning Group)]] -- free group to exchange artsy mail! The main [[https://www.iuoma.org/|website is here]].

[[https://mailartprojects.blogspot.com/|Mail Art Projects]] -- blog with listings of different projects and events for mail art enthusiasts.

===== Other Stuff =====
[[https://letterwriters.org/|Letter Writers Alliance]] -- now closed letter-writing club, but they have some nice downloads still available including a great folding envelope/letter printable and fabulous artistamps.

[[https://lettermo.com/|LetterMo]] -- write letters in February!

[[https://mailartists.wordpress.com/|Mail Artists Index]] -- listing of international mail artists, with biographies.

[[https://crosses.net/|Mail Art Networking]] -- mail art projects; not updated since 2024?