i love to write letters and its extremely rare these days to get a letter in the mail. when i get a letter from my best friend, i am pleased because i know that days before, she was sitting down and actually spending time on me. letters are special

you could try writing letters to them and saying that you love opening the letter box and finding letters from the people you love and that you hope that they write back to you soon. it might give them the hint lol

unfortunately electronic communication is taking over everything these days. Personally i dont send cards or letters by snail mail anymore, but i guess if im trying communicate with someone who doesnt have the internet (though this is rare these days) then i'd send a letter.

I think the only thing i would give in physical text are birthday and christmas cards. Those i find are worth giving physically to my close friends and family. oh, and receiving too... hopefully =]

My parents and my husband's parents live interstate and in the country so it is very important that we send Birthday, Christmas, Mother's and Father's Day cards to our parents and my kids grandparents.  My Mother-in Law loves to get mail from my daughter with her recent kindy paintings inlcuded.  I know that my mother and mother in law love to receive mail especially when it is addressed to Nana!  After the birth of both my children I made and sent my thank you cards which thrilled my older relatives as this seems to be a thing of the past now.  

I'm a terrible member of Gen Y but I love receiving snail mail - unfortunately I am really quite the unreliable pen pal! When I do send letters I usually type them and sign at the bottom - not really the same thing, I know, but I get writer's cramp pretty quickly and I type faster than by hand. But I would never consider sending a text message or email (or those terrible e-cards!) instead of a card (for Birthdays, Christmas etc) - and those I do prefer to make myself. They're usually tailored to the person and include my own drawings, origami and doggerel! Emails are handy for keeping in touch, especially with friends and families overseas, but nothing beats receiving a card in the post and knowing that that special someone has picked it just for you and taken the time to write a note.

to those who cannot write because of medical problems or those that just dont like to write, you could buy a small writing pad with smaller pages and write big and fill up tho pages which would only be about half an a4 page but it would really be appreciated by the person you sent it to :)

tho = two

my fingers are frozen lol

I still send letters of appreciation, birthday and Christmas cards too, just to tell the people you love and friends that they are always in your thoughts no matter how far or near they may reside. Distance has no measure for those you care, and times does not matter.  

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sometimes I do send it if the person don't have the computer at the time... or the person doesn't know how to use the computer at all, also I use it if I am sending a gift... I will add a card too...

awww what a realy nice comment well I share a house with my best freind have know her for about 22 years now love her heaps

I think it's awesome getting snail mail! Unfortuneatly all I get via snail mail is BILLS!! I had a birthday recently and got a birthday card from one of my close friends mum! I was stoked, it was such a surprise!! I do give birthday cards and mothers day cards, although I always say I'm going to send Chrissy cards I never get around to it! Bugger it I'm going to send them this year!! lol :)

i dont send christmas cards anymore. i buy a present for $50 (what it would cost me for cards and stamps) and i put it under the kmart wishing tree. all my friends and family know that i do this and theyre all happy to go without a card because they know that someone will be smiling on christmas day because of us :)

yep, waste of paper! save the trees, send an email LOL!

ya i agree

When I was in boarding school for two years, I wrote to my best friend every day. Well, at least a page. I made it sort of a diary. Telling her all the stories that happened right from the orientation to the day I graduated. It was very touchy when I returned home and read it all over again. But the best part was. She'll wrote me at least once a week and it'll be like 10 pages long. It showed how we missed each other and loved to be around each other again. Back then I rarely wrote to my family. I rang them instead.

As for now, I'm in Melbourne, married to my loved one, my parents and siblings are all back in Malaysia including my best mates. I still wrote them, especially during special occasions. I found out that with every mail, every card that I wrote them, will bring me back all the memories and often I cried. I miss them very much. It feels different if you write mail and e-mail to your loved ones. Trust me. I've been away from my family for 5 years now. And always feel very excited for my next trip back to Malaysia *_*

Well... just a thought...

Cheers!

I have fallen out of the habit of writing letters due to using e-mail.  I am going to start writing again though, it is a very calming thing to do and I find that I express myself better in my writing rather than email.  I have a best friend of 20 years and we used to write all the time when we went our separate ways, now we only speak on the phone every couple of months and communicate via email.  I think we will enjoy writing to each other again!  Gonna start today!