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.

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

It’s great I mainly got to make global friends to language exchange with and friends to pen pal and have fun!

Penpal JAKI_1009

18 (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)

I love this site so much! I made wonderful friends and I appreciate that a lot<3 I'm so proud of this site ✨

Penpal Sabneko

11 (Female)

This website allowed me to learn from the people I engaged with; knowing that people come from different culture and backgrounds. The struggles of everyday life and how they are coping with it made me feel I am not alone. Just being there, writing to each other makes one feel that even the smallest things matters….knowing you have a mail.;)

Penpal Cambria

59 (Female)

Everyone is very friendly, lovely and kind. Although I may not be able to log in to the website at any time, I will log in again when I think of them.

Penpal Jiu-Fang

17 (Female)

I very much like Global Penfriends because it gives good service. Global Penfriends is highly recommended.

Penpal Missms

55 (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)

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)

I’ve been using this penpal website for almost a year and absolutely love it! I’ve met wonderful people and made genuine connections worldwide.

Penpal PalmLiv

38 (Female)

I love global pen friends but it would be soooo much more convenient with an app so pleaseeeee make one!

Penpal TildeFilippa

12 (Female)