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Fiona, that is adorable, she’ll love it. I used to send my nephews loads of mail, hoping they’d get into it. I know they loved to get the mail but they never really got into sending any of their own....
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I liked what someone said in a comment on that blog: if you know a kid, you should start a penpal relationship with them. I like that idea a lot! I think I’ll send something to my grandniece today....
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Oh yeah, I’m pretty sure everyone I know thinks I’m crazy for doing this challenge, or sending mail at all…but you know what they also admit? That they wish they got as much fun mail as I do, and they...
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On a similar topic .. I’m a member of postcard exchange group Postcrossing so I’m often buying large quantities of international stamps. One day I mentioned Postcrossing to the lady serving at the...
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Nowadays, it’s ‘cool’ to be ‘retro’, I guess. On another note, I went to the post office today at lunch, and the postal person remembered me and my ‘pretty envelopes’. Apparently I’m a topic of...
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Anny wrote: I hope I’m not the last generation to appreciate letter writing.. Oh Anny, I don’t think you will be. My daughter just went off to college and is famous already in her building as the...
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I admit I don’t read her blog with any regularity even though I always find it entertaining. This entry was very cute. And if you’ll notice, Heather has a snail mail address on her contact page… so we...
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One of my penpals has a daughter of a similar age to my little girl so they “write” to each other via us at the moment, sending a postcard or a photo with our letters. When they’re old enough we’ll...
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I didn’t until now. That post makes me wish I had kids of my own to teach this, in fact dying form of art. It’s true though, most people frown at me and wonder why I spend money on postage when emails...
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Does anyone else read Heather Armstrong’s blog at dooce.com? She wrote about how kids today don’t know how to write letters and address envelopes. Her own daughter wanted to know how to do it, so that...
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