Missing the Mail man
By 41Combedale
@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
Greece
February 18, 2023 11:25am CST
Although I love using the social media and make great use of sites like Zoom and Skype where I can see the people I am talking to, there is one thing that technology has almost removed from my life. and I miss it. Namely the pleasure in receiving a hand written letter through the post.
Letters may have been a day or two out of date but they were intimate messages, the letter I held in my hand had previously been held in a friend's hand. Prepared unhurriedly, carefully folded into an envelope, secured and sealed with a stamp. Taken to a post office and posted.
Once read it was put away carefully and in some cases, it would be read again several times. They are not read and deleted. Some are kept for years.
I miss hearing a letter come through a letter box and drop on the floor. I miss settling down at a table and preparing my response in as neat handwriting as I could manage.
I had a friend who wrote to me for years after I moved away. As she grew older I began to keep her letters. I have them still although she died several years ago. As long as I have them I feel she is still around. In a way they have become love letters.
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@Marilynda1225 (79678)
• United States
18 Feb 23
I wholeheartedly agree with you on this. I still have some cards and notes from my grandmother who passed away way back in 1972. I treasure them and seeing her handwriting brings comfort because I still miss her after all these years.
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@Marilynda1225 (79678)
• United States
22 Feb 23
@41CombedaleRoad I also wish I had kept more letters from famlly members.
@aninditasen (15732)
• Raurkela, India
19 Feb 23
I don't have any hand written letters with me anymore. They all got destroyed in them flood water. It's nice we have the electronic media now. We can save emails now.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
21 Feb 23
That is sad, I expect you lost a lot of birthday cards too. I keep special cards and would hate to lose them like that.
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@aninditasen (15732)
• Raurkela, India
22 Feb 23
@41CombedaleRoad True. I don't have any birthday cards with me anymore.
@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
21 Feb 23
What a great aunt you mist be. I hope he took your advice and his girlfriend was appreciative.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
19 Feb 23
Nothing hand written these days I had a friend who used to send me hand written post cards I lost her last year
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
21 Feb 23
The only mail I get now is bills. No excitement now when the post arrives.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
21 Feb 23
Receiving letters was something we all used to take for granted and now we realise the
value of them.
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@LadyDuck (457925)
• Switzerland
21 Feb 23
@41CombedaleRoad - There is no one who sends letters anymore now.
@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
23 Feb 23
Seems to me that you are one of the lucky ones who still gets greeting cards!
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@porwest (78761)
• United States
28 Feb 23
@41CombedaleRoad Mostly on birthdays and a few on our anniversary. More on Christmas, but even Christmas cards have really become a thing of the past. We used to stick them to the pass through between the kitchen and living room. Now if we get three or four a year that's something.
@celticeagle (158958)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Feb 23
I have a couple of friends that feel as I do about snail mail so we exchange letters. My BFF and I used to write long letters to one another. I have a few still that I re-read occasionally. She passed in December 2022.
@just4him (305965)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
21 Feb 23
I miss getting letters too. It's been a while since I received and wrote a reply. I do that with a friend who doesn't use a computer or social media.
@JudyEv (325651)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Feb 23
We get the mail about once a week now and often there is nothing there anyway. There is a 'mail room' in the clubhouse where we 'lifestyle residents' go to pick up our mail. I miss writing and receiving letters too.
@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
23 Feb 23
Perhaps writing on mylot helps to fill the void a little. At least I think it works for me.
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@JudyEv (325651)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Feb 23
@41CombedaleRoad It works for me too. I enjoy writing here and interacting with others.
