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.

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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

This is a fantastic site to make international connections. Great scam detection too so you feel safe.

Penpal IslandLotus

46 (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 only made one penpal due to my lack of time but she's great, i love receiving letters and sending them

Penpal Espiral

22 (Female)

It’s a really great social platform to make global friends and getting to know strangers and their countries and cultures. It’s overall a lovely site! 100/100

Penpal Nisefff

24 (Female)

global penfriends is a very good site but I think it will be better if the site was free.

Penpal My.rii

14 (Female)

It was a pleasant surprise to find real pen pals. It's easy to use and I haven't been harassed yet, so it's safe.

Penpal Driak

67 (Female)

Having discovered this website was such a blessing for me. It changed my life. I can finally become friends with people from all over the world with the help of global penfriends.

Penpal marshmellow

22 (Female)

Sometimes it can be a bit confusing, but overall its been good for connecting. Helpful when letting someobe know a letters been sent and received

Penpal Kasey3

60 (Female)

It's good to meet new people all over the world. This improves language skills and gives perspective to new cultures

Penpal Nala21

53 (Female)

Great website for finding new penpals from around the world with same interested. Love the search options as well.

Penpal autumn snowgirl

39 (Female)