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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Search Global Penfriends to find the right penpals.

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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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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

Thanks to GPF I had an opportunity to meet great pen pals over the world and find out how people live in other countries.

Penpal Anna68

58 (Female)

This site is a great way to connect with awesome people from across the globe! My main complaint is that there's a limit to the amount of conversations you can have going at once. Also I have too many pen pals now, but I discovered that there's an option to suspend your account so new people don't contact you, which is a handy feature of the site! Overall, I would totally recommend!

Penpal Zebra Stripes

16 (Female)

I’m happy with the communication I experienced here, the site allows you to freely and safely meet lovely people

Penpal Selyse

26 (Female)

Can't wait to connect with my new pen pal and learning even more about the different cultures of the world.

Penpal Geeeehaw

32 (Female)

It works great and helps me find people out there in the world that I can talk to and learn from. It’s a really amazing website.

Penpal castian22

13 (Female)

I decided to find someone to send card on Global Penfriends. I found a girl in Germany and I send often card. I love receiving card too. Thank you GPF

Penpal Liladventure

28 (Female)

This is a fun and well designed site. It is enjoyable and straightforward to use with a good number of members.

Penpal Shaun4

41 (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)

Have had fun learning about others and their lives and share and learn about how others live. We are more alike than we know.

Penpal Minnesota Nice

54 (Female)

I experienced different cultures and made friends from different places here, which I feel was very worthwhile. If one day, the friends I made on this platform cross paths with me in my life, I will be doubly grateful and incredibly honored! We are responsible for maintaining the diversity of world cultures and shaping their prosperity, so communication among us is absolutely essential! 在这里感受到了不同的文化,交到了不一样地方的朋友,感觉很值得。如果有一天,我在这个平台上交到的朋友,在我的生活中与我交叉出现,我一定会加倍感激,并且无比荣幸!世界文化的多样性是由我们维护的,世界文化的繁荣是由我们塑造的,所以大家之间的交流当然必不可少!

Penpal VolcBlaze

15 (Female)