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 have had some interesting replies, and look forward to getting to know the senders a little better

Penpal AH 9113

73 (Female)

Global pen friends has been a very good website. It is very safe to use and I’ve met so many people from all over the world who are so cool! Even when I take a break from the site I can come back like I never left

Penpal KDogR02

19 (Female)

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

57 (Female)

i met so many friendly people here, adn 2 of them became my penpals! would highly recommend to those looking for friends and penpals!

Penpal nonexistentperson

15 (Female)

I have found many new friends on here to write letters with, which has been so fun and I am so thankful for that. I have now gotten friends in America and Serbia and a couple more countries🤩

Penpal Anni_ finnishgirl

15 (Female)

I have been writing paper letters to many countries since childhood. There is a large selection of friends, everything is clearly organized. There are photos, maps, information about new friends and much more. I have found great friends here and I am grateful for that. I like reading about their countries, their interests. I would recommend this application to everyone. It is a very friendly environment.

Penpal Idina

71 (Female)

I easily found a few contacts on the site. The site is easy to use and seems like a reliable way to make new friends. Löysin helposti muutamia kontakteja sivustolta. Sivustoa helppo käyttää ja tuntuu luotettavalta tavalta saada uusia ystäviä.

Penpal Hanna Mustonen

48 (Female)

I love this site! It has allowed me to meet great friends and learn so much about other cultures. I have became very close with my pen pals.

Penpal HannahRee

29 (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)

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)