Do you still write letters (not emails, I mean real LETTERS literally)?

Hong Kong
April 3, 2007 6:57am CST
I used to receive so many letters from my friends and now with the development of internet, I almost forget what a letter looks like LOL. We use instant messaging services and emails a lot more now. But do you still write letters from time to time? Do you feel happier when you actually get a letter in your mailbox than receiving an email?
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• India
3 Apr 07
I think the age of letter writing is almost over. Perhaps it is in the case of personal letter but officially I still get a lot of letters. I think I still get a few letters from my mom. She still believes in the efficiency of the Indian Postal Service. There was a time when I used to look forward to getting letters from my family and friends. There was also a time when we used to write letters for fun. I think that was somewhere when I was 13 years old. Its all stages of life. Of course today messages go through the internet or the mobile or your palmtop. Its all instant now. You don't have to wait for a few days waiting for that elusive postman to reach you.
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• Hong Kong
4 Apr 07
I almost only get letters from the governments/ different utility services. I just remember the joy of receving letters so much when I was younger, I was very much anxious to check my mailbox everyday LOL.
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3 Apr 07
I was brought up to write letters to family and friends and I still write and receive letters. I wonder if writing letters is a dying art these days though as fewer and fewer people bother to actually put pen to paper now.
• Hong Kong
4 Apr 07
I like how your describe it as a dying art. It really is. I find that my handwriting is so bad now because I seldom write on papers.
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@AmbiePam (85658)
• United States
7 Apr 07
I still write a good old fashioned letter about once a month to someone. It means more to people when you take the time to hand write something. I'll send one to a friend, or my grandma - writing letters is a lost art, but I'm not ready to call it exstinct yet. : )
• Hong Kong
9 Apr 07
Nice, if I were that person, I would appreciate it very much. And it seems more personal to me if I receive a letter, I would be really happy for days LOL. It's really a lost art. Hopefully it won't be extinct.
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@subathra (3519)
• India
3 Apr 07
Letters written - letters
No more personal letters to any family member or freinds with the advent of mail & text messages. But today also i wrote a letter to my bank to update changes with my residential address.Nowadays official letters are only written and that too very rarely we are in a hurry to make some changes otherwise i will type it neatly and take a print out.We rarely get any letters in our mail box.
• Hong Kong
4 Apr 07
Same to me. I got a letter once in a while and I was so happy to get it. I will keep on re-reading it LOL.
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@ganwn071 (1116)
• Singapore
3 Apr 07
I have not physically write a letter or send a wishing card for a long time. Email is my main medium for communication tools. Now a days, I am receive very few physical letter from banks or organisation as well, they had cut down and send the statement electronically as well.
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• Hong Kong
4 Apr 07
Yes, everything will be e-based.
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• United States
6 Aug 07
Because I go to a military school we are forced to communicate with the outside world with letters that you have to physically write... Just kidding we only have to do that for like a week and then back to the ol' email!
@jazgottt (1180)
• Poland
7 Aug 07
I don't like writting letters, even emails hehe When internet wasn't so popular in our country, I also didn't like to write letters or even to send postcards from holiday. I'm to busy to go to a postoffice to send my letters, and I don't like going to postoffice, so I quess I won't send many letters in my life:)
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@garyeye (202)
• Philippines
4 Jul 07
I still write old fashioned style writing but I don't send them through mail. I just hand carry the letter to the recipient.
@easy888 (10405)
• Australia
17 Jun 07
Hello,wondericequeen,i do not write any letters nowadays as the instant messengers are so convinient nowadays,i do not see any point to go back to the old ways which is much more inconvient for communication. Honestly,the feeling would be the same no matter i received an email or mail in my letter box,as long as i could get the messages from the sender,it would be fine.
• China
2 Aug 07
I haven't written a letter for a long long time. I like the exciting experience of fetching letters from the mailbox. However, I don't like writing letter because it is a troublesome business. Worse, my handwriting is too ugly even for myself to see. Therefore, I treat email as a compromising alternative.