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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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

Global Penfriends has been very helpful for finding penpals! It has a very simple way to find people similar to you and makes it very easy to contact them. The only problem is that some things cost money, which then doesn't allow many people to do certain things on the website. Besides that, it is a very good site for finding pen pals!

Penpal JUSTaGirlWhoWantsSomeLetters

14 (Female)

Global Penfriends is by far my fav website...it's really good and safe.. i found my penfriend from this website i connect with her real often.. i highly recommende for poeple who are looking for a life time best friend.

Penpal Winter moonveil

14 (Female)

It's an amazing experience. I look forward to reading my messages after a long day at school or responsibilities at home. Everyone is so nice, they LIKE learning about different cultures, and this is why I love it :)

Penpal Doglover11

12 (Female)

Encountered some super amazing people here. Some of them are my buddies now. I am really thankful to team GPF for this platform

Penpal Almost Enlightened

42 (Female)

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

Penpal AH 9113

73 (Female)

I have tried a few pen pal sites in the past, but Global Pen Friends is the best :) there are no annoying ads, and I really like to see what categories I have in common with the others!

Penpal ChevyColoradoGirl

53 (Female)

I've been using the website for quite a few months and I really enjoy it. I now have multiple pen pals from all around the globe!

Penpal Blue Coral

22 (Female)

I have met so great people from around the world. Thank you Global Penfriends!

Penpal moon007

62 (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)

Awesome way to connect with random people with similar interests in a safe environment. Really hope yall fix the layout keep the promotional stuff sure but make the layout a little cleaner espeacially the chat area. Also a section explaining new updates and restrictions would be appreciated

Penpal ashlakh

20 (Female)