Happy Mail
By Toni
@toniganzon (77156)
Philippines
July 7, 2019 9:52pm CST
After months and months of waiting, I finally received Nana's letter. Nana is my penpal from Malaysia and we have been exchanging letters using the traditional postal service. It's extremely slow but to receive the letter is all worth the wait.
Penpal may no longer be a tradition to young generations but there are still a few who keeps the tradition. I use Instagram to find penpals, that's where I found Nana and Maimai. Maimai is an asian lady living in the US.
I love writing letters using the traditional pen and paper. I have always been a fan of writing letters to penpals since I was in grade school.
Would you like to have a penpal? Do you have the patience to wait for the letter to arrive?
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18 responses
@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
8 Jul 19
I would love to be your penpal if you wish Judy.
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@JudyEv (382056)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Jul 19
@toniganzon That would be great. I'd like that. I'll PM my address. :)
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
8 Jul 19
I used to write letters to my friends and give them to each other each day or during passing period. Then, we went to e-mail. Then, chat came to service.
I have not done slow traditional mail in ages.
Glad you got your letter in the mail from your pen pal. Sounds like fun! 
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
8 Jul 19
It is. It's also a trend among planner addicts actually. My penpals are very young. They're in their early 20s.
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
9 Jul 19
@infatuatedbby Is it a Happy Planner from MAMBI?
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
8 Jul 19
@toniganzon Aww that is sweet to connect with them. I recently won a Happy Planner from a Instagram giveaway. I am going to fill the planner up :)
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
8 Jul 19
When I was younger I did have pen pals but these days not so much
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
9 Jul 19
These days people don't seem to care about that anymore coz we can talk on a daily basis with people from all over the world just by texting.
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@teamfreak16 (43593)
• Denver, Colorado
8 Jul 19
I never had a pen pal. I thought it might be cool when I was a kid, but I've really never been much for writing letters.
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
8 Jul 19
@teamfreak16 Most of the filipino single women who can't find a boyfriend the traditional way, would search for someone on facebook and they usually search for foreign men.
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@teamfreak16 (43593)
• Denver, Colorado
8 Jul 19
@toniganzon - And now guys meet girls on the Internet. I have two good friends who met on a band message board and started talking. He came out to Colorado Springs from Philadelphia to meet her. They've now been together about 15 years. Their daughter just recently turned 11!
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
8 Jul 19
There's a postal service in the malls.
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
8 Jul 19
@Janet357 When it's not someone's passion, everything would be difficult. It is not a hobby nor an interest of yours. It is however mine, so no matter how far the post office is, I'll surely find a way to get there.
@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
8 Jul 19
Yes as most people don't have the patience to wait for snail mails. There's no urgency in our letters anyway. It's purely for fun. And this is common among the community of planner addicts.
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
8 Jul 19
I remember having a penpal for a while when I was in school.
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
9 Jul 19
@toniganzon Wouldn't you say that myLot is like having many penpals?
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
9 Jul 19
@1hopefulman I consider mylot as a social media and the people here are just like social media friends. But it doesn't come close to having a real penpal. Why? First of all, the response is immediate, I don't have to wait for months and months. Secondly, I enjoy writing on pen and paper more and decorate my letter with stickers and other embellishments. I cannot do that in mylot.
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
9 Jul 19
Yeah, I remember it being a fad many years ago. I remember we even paid membership fees so our names would be in an international penpal book sold world-wide.
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@yanzalong (19091)
• Indonesia
8 Jul 19
I used to do that and I still keep her mails in a case. She is my wife now.
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
8 Jul 19
Were you writing each other before before you dated her or after?
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
8 Jul 19
yes, i did, but we only exchanged a few letters.
in college, though, i had a classmate who was suddenly sent to the us. we wrote each other a lot.
then i had an officemate who became an ofw. we also exchanged a lot of letters.
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
8 Jul 19
You still do until now?
I had a penpal from England when I was in grade school and we exchanged letters till I was in high school. And then she stopped writing. I still remember her name though, Gillian Hinds. She would sent me photos of her and her family. I wondered what happened to her and why she stopped writing me.
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@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
9 Jul 19
Wow, you are still doing penpal, its nice.
Decades, I think its been decades that I didn't do penpal.
Oh, Nana is my favorite hero in Mobile Legends he he.
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
9 Jul 19
My son plays ML but I don't. That's quite popular and when I see people holding their phones, they're all playing ML. Not my thing though. I play supermario on my switch. I bought my now Nintendo Switch. My son has his PS4 and his iPhone for his games.
@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
9 Jul 19
mobile legends is very addicting, it consumed my time and part of my life
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
9 Jul 19
Same here and I really still enjoy the real paper.
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@almostoveryou (4954)
• Philippines
3 Sep 19
I've been writing and sending letters since grade school. I'm in my 40's now and still send handwritten letters and cards to friends. :) Sometimes I send journaling ephemera to my IG friends via postal mail.
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
3 Sep 19
I'm in my 40s too and I do send ephemeras to my pen pals as well.
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@Shivram59 (50205)
• India
9 Jul 19
@toniganzon Yes,I love to have penpals and already have a couple of them.Both of them are from North of India whereas I live in the east.We frequently exchange letters written on a piece of paper with pen.
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
9 Jul 19
That is good to know that you are keeping the tradition as well.
@psanasangma (7910)
• India
9 Jul 19
In this digital age, you still have patience! back in 95s I often heard about penpals but never tried one. I still prefer to use traditional post office to send any items to home or to any of my friends too
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
9 Jul 19
Yes. Penpal was in strongly popular in the 80s.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
8 Jul 19
That is very nice. I did have a penpal years ago in the country of Poland. But we lost touch after a long while.
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
9 Jul 19
Yeah that's a bit sad when we lost touch of the people we correspond with.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
8 Jul 19
I did that long ago, but with known friends who had migrated to other countries; it was when there's no e-mails yet. But now no more. It's quite interesting to receive letters from snail mail though now we are trying to save on paper to save trees.
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
9 Jul 19
You know I care about the trees but I don't want to make that as an excuse not to write letters. WE use toilet papers every single day. Imagine how many trees are cut because of that. There are recycled papers to use. And not so many of us know, that using the internet and all the gadgets we own, harms the environment as well. So I don't see the point of sending emails to save trees. It's more of sending emails because we lost the patience of snail mails.
@VoiceofTruth7 (1210)
• United States
9 Jul 19
No do not have the patience or time thank God for Email and Other Social Media sites.
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@toniganzon (77156)
• Philippines
9 Jul 19
Most of the young generations who were born in the digital age don't have the patience and it's sad.
