I wrote a friend a letter. I have a Watch Fob friend that doesn't have a computer & is about deaf so it is about impossible to talk to him over the phone so I got out a note pad & pen & wrote him a letter. That got me to thinking. I think the last time I wrote a letter was in the 1970. I used to write my cousin letters when he was in Vietnam. How long has it been since any of you have written a letter?
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RedMF40
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Within the last year, but it was a not accompanying something I was sending a friend.
Somewhat related:
A personal letter from Japan kept arriving at my house. It was not for me.
House number was the same, but that was the only thing similar. My road and the address on the envelope were completely different.
I'd put it in the mailbox at the local PO and it would come back. Finally I put it in MY mailbox for pickup, thinking the mail carrier would recognize it and not deliver it any more.
No such luck. It came back.
This happened about ten times. I went online, did a property search of the neighboring counties to find the correct address. I live near the intersection of four counties.
Yes, I found the address--and yes it was the very last and fourth county I looked at. The name matched up.
I sent the card in another envelope to the person it was addressed to. The sender in Japan had gotten the address ALMOST right--but it would have been easy enough to figure out. There was just one slight difference. Guess it was just easier to keep delivering it to my house.
Card hasn't come back.
Gerrit
Bob Collins
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Wrote my brother this morning, his birthday is coming up. Since the stay at home orders I have written more than 60 separate letters. Have gotten about 8 replies.
JD in da UP
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When we are out and about we’ll stop and check out the local post cards and buy a few that we like. When we think of someone from one who could use a lift,they might get a hand written post card from me me. A real letter, 40 years.
Tubacase47
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That is what is called loop mail; I have a friend who was a letter carrier who explained it to me. The Postal Services computers read the bar code at the bottom of the envelope and unless it is scratched out, the computer simply routes it back to that address.
MarkB_MI
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The last time I wrote an honest-to-goodness personal letter was in January 2002. I know the date because I still have a copy of it on my computer. I had a friend who lived on a sailboat (a 1939 vintage Tahiti ketch) for about twenty years until it was destroyed in a hurricane. He then bought a van camper and traveled around the country in it, staying for months at a time at various friends' homes. The only way to communicate with him was by mail to whichever friend he was at. John died in 2004.
Jim in rush co
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In 1964, Army
RedMF40
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That's interesting, but are the letter carriers not required to look at what they're delivering?
Only thing that was the same about the two addresses was the house number. Roads were completely different.
Like:
1234 Easy Street as opposed to
1234 Very Difficult Street
Different. In any case, I couldn't do that job, not nearly organized enough.
Gerrit
Last time I wrote a letter it was to my oldest who was undergoing boot camp at Lackland Air Force Base. I was still on active duty, US Army stationed in Mannheim Germany. Now for you non service folks back then a drill instructor would stand in front of a platoon stack of letters in one hand. They would take the top letter, call out the addressee's name and the trainee would leave formation, get the letter and return to formation.
So anyway I wrote the letter and addressed it, took a big black magic marker and wrote in huge letters GO ARMY on the back of the letter.
My son told me the next time I saw him that the drill instructor pull that letter out and everyone in the formation got the giggles. That's a huge no no in boot camp. The instructor called my son's name, noticed the giggles and sense it was the letter in his hand so he turned it over and saw the GO ARMY on it. My son told me he did a lot of push ups to get that letter!
Rick
So anyway I wrote the letter and addressed it, took a big black magic marker and wrote in huge letters GO ARMY on the back of the letter.
My son told me the next time I saw him that the drill instructor pull that letter out and everyone in the formation got the giggles. That's a huge no no in boot camp. The instructor called my son's name, noticed the giggles and sense it was the letter in his hand so he turned it over and saw the GO ARMY on it. My son told me he did a lot of push ups to get that letter!
Rick
Dennis Minn
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gmccool,
Just wrote a happy fathers day note to my still-grumpy dad last week.
I will not regret doing so.
D.
Just wrote a happy fathers day note to my still-grumpy dad last week.
I will not regret doing so.
D.
MarkB_MI
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> So anyway I wrote the letter and addressed it, took a big black magic marker and wrote in huge letters GO ARMY on the back of the letter.
That's a great story!
That's a great story!
I wrote a letter to a friend of mine. I was good friends with in the 60's. That was just a few weeks ago. In the Navy I would write my parents about every week. In the combat zone just write free where the stamp goes, and it gets delivered. Stopped writing my girl friend when she stopped writing me. Stan
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