Community, creativity and kindness

Open projects and call-outs that use the humble postal service for creating community, expressing creativity and to deliver random acts of kindness

More Love Letters

a global project across 49 countries to write letters of love and support for complete strangers moreloveletters. com

The Graceful Envelope

a long-running (since 1994) annual competition to create a beautifully decorated envelope calligraphersguild. org/envelope

Dear Holly

an invitation to write words of encouragement for teens (words you wish you had heard yourself) on a postcard dearhollyproject. wordpress.com

The Postcard Club

a pen-pal exchange list for artists who want to swap postcard-sized works of original art with one another postcard-club. tumblr.com

InCoWriMo

a global challenge to handwrite and post or deliver one letter, card, note or postcard every day for a month incowrimo.org

Post Secret

an ongoing community art project through which people mail their secrets, anonymously, on one side of a postcard postsecret.com

Mail A Smile

a monthly call-out for strangers to send mail-art (decorated envelopes) to cheer a stranger in need mailasmile.org