Letters.

Recently, much to my delight, I've received a lot of post.
The post I get falls into these 4 categories: freebies (I send off for all sorts of things on a regular basis), university related information, rubbishy stuff, and letters.

Sadly, I rarely receive many letters :( In fact, I don't think anyone does, seeing as it's the 21st century so why would you spend time writing someone a letter when you could text/email/tweet/bbm/imessage/facebook/etc them much more quickly?

I love the novelty of writing and receiving hand-written things in the post from people, I don't know why, but I just do. It's also kind of nice knowing that someone has actually taken the time to sit down and focus on writing to you, instead of quickly typing a few words whilst doing a bajillion other things at the same time.

Myself and the group of friends I made on holiday have all decided that we're going to write to each other on the first of every month, which is SO EXCITING! Seriously, sending letters is the way forward. I'd love to have a pen pal! I once had a French email pen pal, which was okay, but the fact it was email not post and the fact that the French girl stopped emailing me back after the third email meant the experience wasn't quite as fun as I'd hoped.

I suppose the reason why people don't write to each other anymore as a means of communication is because of all the other faster and more convenient ways of contacting someone. Our postman is so unreliable, he usually comes around midday, but he has been known to drop the post off as late as 5pm. 5PM I SAY! Disgraceful. From work experience at a museum, I learnt that there actually used to be 2 postal deliveries a day, in the morning and afternoon. It's also ironic that the post used to get delivered so much more quickly than it does nowadays, as I learnt from reading Edwardian postcards in which grandparents wrote to the parents to reassure them that they would make sure the grandchild got home in time for tea that day. So maybe modern day methods of doing things aren't always the quickest and best they have been.

Getting letters and cards in the post makes me happy. Handwritten letters and cards especially.
Hence, blogreaders, I challenge you this week to write someone a card or a letter, as long or as short as you like :-)

I promise the unexpected (..or perhaps not so unexpected if you've had to ask them for their address) nature of your post will make them smile. Or just make them think you're weird. But most likely smile!

Happy writing!