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It's been decades since I wrote a letter and mailed it.
by WalterBright 11mo ago
It's been decades since I wrote a letter and mailed it.
- petra303 11mo agoWhich makes taking the time to send a letter have a lot of importance. I wrote a note to my mother and it meant a lot to her to get a hand written correspondence.
- kingofmen 11mo agoHow long has it been since you needed to mail a physical document to a bank, a government department, or something similar?
- dijit 11mo agoI live in Sweden, and I can confidently say... Once. As in, literally as long as I've lived here (11 years now) I mailed one thing by post and it was, somewhat ironically, a self-assessment form for an ADHD diagnosis from a company called Modigo. I have received a lot of mail though, from the government also, so I'm not sure how that is gonna fly.
- WalterBright 11mo agoI mail documents frequently, but not letters.
- SoftTalker 11mo agoI mailed in my taxes last April, as I always have.
- TiredOfLife 11mo agoIn 40+ years. Never
- Nextgrid 10mo agoThere are plenty of services that will accept a PDF and turn it into a letter. There's other services that can do the reverse. Those combined means you can interact with entities expecting physical documents without ever having to actually handle physical paper.
- dmd 11mo agoHours, for me.
- Tiktaalik 11mo agoWriting some xmas cards right now and going to mail them in a bit. It's fun. You should try it out. Fun to go shopping at craft fairs and give some money to indie artists for well made art. Send in the mail with a little note and stay in touch with old pals.
- torcete 11mo agoI can send one to you if you want :-)
- ProllyInfamous 11mo agoMy PO Box is listed in my /hn/ profile, and I respond with funny homemade postcards. I stopped using email a decade ago; quit texts right after Covid started. Yes, I have a one-way pager (digits only) that is given out to less than a dozen contacts. Love letterwriting — have had and regularly-used my Smith Corona [typewriter] for half my life (over two decades). Its especially helpful for tax forms and legal documents (my area courts still accept non-digital when pro se). For Christmas last year I helped my state judge brother set up his own typewriter [a very nice IBM Selectric II]. He's not much older than me, but needs it for [reasons].