Kim Eichenberger, who hails from Gebenstorf, Switzerland, connected with inmate William McCarty on WriteAPrisoner.com -- a website facilitating pen pal relationships with American jailbirds. Kim ...

A viral snail mail swap on Instagram connected thousands of pen pals around the world, bridging the gap between generations and the on- and offline worlds.

For months, third graders at Crooked Lake Elementary in Andover, Minnesota have been trading letters with pen pals a few generations older. On Friday, they finally met face-to-face.

Valerie Scafaria and her pen pal Sheila, who have exchanged letters for more than five decades, finally met in person and spent a week exploring Cleveland together.

Virginia high schooler Michelle Liu met her 80-year-old friend Sue Miller back when Michelle was three years old. They became friends and, over time, they became devoted pen pals.This story was ...

Valerie Scafaria of Middleburg Heights is finally meeting her English pen pal, Sheila, in person this week -- more than 50 years after they began writing through a Girl Scout program in 1969.

Wrongfully convicted man freed after 28 years meets longtime pen pal Seeing her there, cuddled up with her crossword, you would never guess 80-year-old retired schoolteacher Ginny Schrappen had a ...

Minnesota teacher Sarah Coffing initially hesitated taking on a pen pal exchange with the neighborhood retirement home, where a group of teachers had created a “Retired Teachers Club.” But now ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- For the past two years, elementary students from The Potter’s House School have been exchanging handwritten letters with seniors at a Grand Rapids retirement community about ...

A mission that started with a pen pal program offering Maryland students a chance to connect with young people in Kenya has the same goal as 23 years ago.

Now in retirement, a long-time Toledo businesswoman is determined to cross off the number one item on her bucket list. She’s searching for her long-lost friend who lives halfway across the world.