> I find the concept of writing a letter silly and more about nostalgia for the parent than the child who will probably wonder why you just didn't use email or

> I find the concept of writing a letter silly and more about nostalgia for the parent than the child who will probably wonder why you just didn't use email or IM. Unless you forget to log into your account with the important emails for N days and GMail/Hotmail/Outlook/Yahoo recycles the account. This actually happened to me before I was in tech (i.e. properly understood the value of backing up my data). After my dad passed I kept an otherwise useless Hotmail account because it contained a lot of email conversations with him. I went to log in one day only to find the account and emails had been deleted. Hard way to learn that particular lesson. TL;DR physical possession of important things isn't an entirely obsolete idea.