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

I’ve made a lot of friends here :) I like how it is safe and you’re guaranteed to find some one. Everything is reviewed by a real person. I recommend. R

Penpal KawaiixKitty

31 (Female)

After a hard beginning I finally got the profile done. Now, to find friends. Can’t wait to find a pen pal. Totally looking forward to getting started.

Penpal JaneAnn

73 (Female)

It is good as it gives the opportunity to meet people from other countries and find out more about foreign cultures

Penpal DiDo101

49 (Female)

I like how the website is structured but I wish you could see when the last time people were active. I keep smiling people and I usually get responses like they haven't been active for a while. Id love this to become an app so I can get notifications, plus logging in everytime I open the site is kind of annoying. But I've had lots of success with gaining pen pals!! Love this site it's my go to for snail mail

Penpal Ditzy loo

19 (Female)

Love that you can exchange messages safely before exchanging postal addresses. Great way to meet people from all over the world

Penpal Lyra Mire

33 (Female)

I wanted to have friends and penpals through this site. This site permitted me to do that. So happy about it !!!

Penpal Madeleine Cotnoir

18 (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)

It already sent me a match, but I didn't notice it until a year ago! Hehe, it was so speedy, but fun

Penpal luvley_theaaa

13 (Female)

AMAZING site, it allowed me to meet new people and discover a new hobby which is writing letters and penpaling in general, the feeling of getting a message with gifts, bracelets, photos from a person from the other side of the world is just magical.

Penpal Lemon0777

16 (Female)

This site is asking. I originally thought to try penpals to get my kids interested in it. I don't want expecting to meet my best friend on this site. And no we didn't know each other beforehand. Thank you Global Penpals!!!!

Penpal Shadow_flower

39 (Female)