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.

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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

the site is very good i have made heaps of penpals and i recommend this site it is safe and easy to use

Penpal timtam99

58 (Female)

Works well enough and I've been able to have some conversations. Wish all conversations could be visible in your mailbox by default

Penpal ocelot oak

22 (Female)

Perfect for finding friends from all over the world. Cool thing! Thank you I have nothing negative to say.

Penpal He_ike

54 (Female)

Great way to get new pen pals especially snail mail as you can see lots of profiles and choose according to shared hobbies and location

Penpal Den F

62 (Female)

I enjoy Global Penfriends to find a pen pals because i love doing snail mail and because i'm generally curious about people and wanting to find connections and learn something new

Penpal songbrid93

31 (Female)

Great way to meet new people and learn about many different things! I have sent almost 20 letters so far and I am always excited to learn something new about my penpal

Penpal samfawj_

26 (Female)

My penfriend and i have been writing for nearly a year now! i love how they double check new uploads

Penpal levoni

12 (Female)

It's nice that there is again a way to get in touch with people around the world via the old postal service, in addition to the whole social media thing.

Penpal A04M

8 (Female)

A beautiful experience — I’ve met kind and helpful people, and it’s very enjoyable. Now I have friends from five continents and I’m very happy to be here. Una bella esperienza, ho trovato persone cortesi e disponibili, è molto piacevole. Ora ho amici dai 5 continenti e sono molto soddisfatta di essere qui

Penpal ElisItaly

43 (Female)

it has been amazing I join this to make friends and have fun learning about new people I love it yay

Penpal Kaley Stewart

13 (Female)