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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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

I made a lot of friends on this site who love to share their experiences, I lost some of them, I found others, they are all writing in international languages, that s why it is so simple to be in contact wirh eachother.

Penpal red seastar

72 (Female)

Around a year or two ago, I met a girl from France on this site and we chatted online for a while, realising we had lots in common and that it was really fun to chat about differences in Scottish and French culture, music, food, school etc. We sent each other physical mail and i still have the pictures she sent and the zine she made me up on my wall. We now text and voice message every couple weeks!!! So glad I used globalpenfriends!!!

Penpal lettersfromemxx

18 (Female)

This site is strict and protect the users. The platform informed me that one user who has been writing to me is a fraud which I am thankful for! I don’t like that we have to upgrade to meet more other people but this is how it works here. It’s also about luck who contacts you. Overall, I like the strict security part.

Penpal Lim M

43 (Female)

I think this is a neat website. It is a great way to interact with people from around the world in a safe, organized way. Thank you very much. :)

Penpal Scarlett22

16 (Female)

Clean, easy to use website that doesn't give me the creep factor because of the vetting process. I've already met several amazing people!

Penpal Bexie_r

39 (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)

Penpal-ing and making friends are my favorite things to do. I still remember the first letter I had ever sent and ever received, it was the best feeling in the world. Without Global Penfriends, none of that would have been possible. So thank you GP, for making this experience memorable, fun, and safe.

Penpal bamallama dingdong

17 (Female)

Great website with lots of features, but you need to pay for extra things which such as seeing who viewed you seeing when they where last on the website messaging a certain amount of times.

Penpal minimochipup

11 (Female)

the contact process is better, the report process not so, suspicious characters while prevalent, are less

Penpal ChrysMcChef

64 (Female)

I found the whole process very easy and have made lots of new friends. Also love the fact that Global Penfriends are very security conscious and have removed a couple of penpals who may have been scammers. I would thoroughly recommend

Penpal cuckoo5

63 (Female)