Do you still hand write letters and cards?
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Uptosnuff
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I am in Toastmasters and I did a speech about this very thing not too long ago. Yes, I still like writing notes on stationary, thank you cards and inviting people via invites in snail mail. When you get a hand-written envelope in the mail, is that not the very first thing you look at and open? It is for most people since it is such a rarity anymore. When you receive a hand-written note, invitation or letter, you know the sender thinks highly of you. I cringe when I hear schools don't even teach cursive handwriting any longer. 
horseless carriage
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Snail mail has one advantage over email, it gets noticed. More so if you are aggrieved and wish to complain about a product or service. Write, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope back to yourself, so the recipient knows you are expecting an answer and it will arrive.
Handwriting is something that I enjoy, at school I was taught how to write in Italic Script, to this day I still do, using a fountain pen and ink. Whilst looking for something on the internet I came across a quote by one, Pete Doherty. Not someone that I have heard of, nor have I heard of The Libertines, a band of which he is their front man. But Pete was quoted and I have hand written his quote, it resonated with me.
terry123
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I write personal messages on cards that I send. I have a friend that I write and she writes back as she has no internet.
gamboolman
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I can't recall the last hand written note/letter I wrote or received..... email is just too easy.
Sad really. As others have made mention of. I remember the excitement of getting a letter and/or going to the Post Office to pick up the mail.
ms gamboolgal still has all of the letters that we wrote to each other before we were married and I was Roughnecking away from her. I do remember how important and how much writing and receiving those letters meant to me.
Now that I am basically retired, (since on vacation until official retirement date), I need to write a few notes to folks....
gamboolman....
Sad really. As others have made mention of. I remember the excitement of getting a letter and/or going to the Post Office to pick up the mail.
ms gamboolgal still has all of the letters that we wrote to each other before we were married and I was Roughnecking away from her. I do remember how important and how much writing and receiving those letters meant to me.
Now that I am basically retired, (since on vacation until official retirement date), I need to write a few notes to folks....
gamboolman....
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- Lancashire
Cards yes - letters nope.
horseless carriage
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We too have all our love letters from our courting days, they are kept at the back of the wedding album.
A couple of years ago we learned of the death of our next door neighbour at our previous address. A couple who had been married a very long time. The surviving widow has found life very hard to face on her own. Since her husbands death I have been writing to the lady every two weeks or so, she said, in her Christmas card to us, how much she enjoys the letters. Everything about it, when a letter arrives, we are informed, she will first make herself a hot drink, then sit in a comfortable armchair, open the letter, having read it she enjoys her drink before re-reading the latest letter. More often than not she admits, that she will re-read it again in a few days time. It makes me happy that she does.
horseless carriage
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Ferocious, you need to get the smoke signal blue tooth, then you can pick up the modern day smoke signal.
