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Conversations About Handwriting

by TonyB on February 24, 2010

Lots of good stuff for you this week:

• No wonder people in the Victorian era seemed to write so many letters. The New York Times has a very interesting article about how mail was delivered 12 times a day in London back then. You could receive a letter and respond to it the same day. Read More –>

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Conversations About Handwriting

by TonyB on February 17, 2010

• One of the most beloved items of Maswood Khan’s childhood was a red fountain pen, he tells readers in an opinion piece for The Financial Express, waxing nostalgic about the days when he wrote and received handwritten letters. Read More –>

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Conversations About Letter Writing

December 17, 2009

Lois Bouton, a 90-year-old retired schoolteacher in Arkansas, is known as the “Coast Guard Lady” because she’s been writing letters to Coast Guardsmen around the world since the ’70s, according to a local TV station.

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Letter Writing is Getting Some Attention in the News

December 1, 2009

Canada’s Globe and Mail ran an article about young people continuing the pen pal tradition. Being pen pals is no longer reserved for felons, schoolchildren and the elderly. Websites such as FriendsWithPens.com and Facebook groups such as the shrilly titled “Penpals who write proper letters!” reveal thousands of twentysomethings and thirtysomethings pining for people to [...]

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UPDATE: No Letters to Santa at the North Pole for American Kids

November 21, 2009

The US Postal Service has reversed its decision that would have kept children’s letters to Santa from reaching him at the North Pole. “We never wanted to spoil people’s Christmas,” said agency spokesman Ernie Swanson. “It was just a decision we had to make based on privacy concerns, and it is labor-intensive. But it’s still [...]

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No Letters to Santa at the North Pole for American Kids

November 20, 2009

Earlier this week, we posted about trying to get more people to send handwritten letters. Now, there’s this story in USA Today about the American postal service cancelling a Christmas letter-writing program that has been running for more than 50 years. Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday [...]

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Letter Writing Shouldn't Vanish – It’s Good for Relationships (and Profit)

November 18, 2009

How long has it been since you actually sat down and wrote a letter by hand? Months? Probably years? That’s how it is for most people, which is why letter writing seems to be in its last days. We have so many other ways to communicate now: cell phones, email, IMs, text messages, Facebook, webcams, [...]

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