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

I wanted to start writing to people all over the world, but I had no idea how to do it safely. GlobalPenFriends is what I found to be the most reliable site so far when finding people that are real. But it has its quirks, the site can be kinda laggy, but to be fair I use this solely on my phone. I’m sure it runs a lot more efficiently on a computer or laptop. Of course there are some accounts still on here that are questionable, but far less when compared to other platforms. I haven’t come across any “creepy” people. I recommend it for sure! I have gained a few penpals whom I write to and it’s been a lovely experience so far.

Penpal ashkee

19 (Female)

This site is amazing. They're always cautious about verifying people and making the site as safe as possible with many different measures!

Penpal Mallorie

16 (Female)

my experience on this site has been good . Good place to meet and make great people. Very good website

Penpal Ms Caribbean

66 (Female)

I've gotten to meet so many awesome people on here, with various interests, living in various places. it has helped expand my horizons!

Penpal Starflare

16 (Female)

I can’t wait to get a penpal and I feel this is the safest website to do so!! I’m hopping to be able to make some long term friends :)

Penpal Butt3rfy

17 (Female)

I like the people and this site!! it's really easy to navigate and I cant wait to find a penpal from a different country to penpal with them and learn about their culture

Penpal Rehmaaa

15 (Female)

Trying to find penpals via email and there are lots of penpals on this platform. Thank you Global Penfriends!

Penpal Alana B

75 (Female)

I originally signed up for this site out of boredom, and I've never expected to make such good friends on here! All the people are very friendly, and they respond quickly most of the time! The only thing that kind of bothers me is that you can only see your last 5 active conversations, unless you pay. Other than that, it's amazing!

Penpal talkabtanniething

13 (Female)

I love this website because it is soo easy to find friends on here it is so nice nice nice nice nice

Penpal itzNastya_here

10 (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)