best meet the needs of our communities.....perhaps others should try to do this?
No one sends me letters
No one sends invitations,
No one sends invitations,
I don't even get bills in the mail,
Anymore!
I dread going to the post office
Lines are long,
Options confusing
Cost of a stamp 66 cents!
Perhaps we need to rethink
We're not the same nation we were
in 1775 when Ben Franklin was the
Postmaster.
We're not the same as when
4 comments:
You are right - my mail is almost always junk, ads, and bills. I got a thank you yesterday in the mail from a wedding shower -- it was delightful! Some years ago I took Michelle Houts's challenge to write 52 letters-actual letters on paper, stamped and mailed-- over the course of a year - one a week. It was interesting, fun, challenging, and worthwhile. https://michellehouts.com/52-letters-in-a-year/
Anita, what a wise message here. That seems like it would save a lot of money to have less than six days a week mail delivery. My experience is the same as yours, just a few occasional precious things come in the mail these days. Our mailbox is a mile down the road, so we don't pick it up every day, even though they do deliver it every day.
I've been lucky enough to participate in an epistolary poem exchange this summer. We could choose regular mail or e-mail. My partner and I began with regular mail and it was a delight to receive poetic mail. Unfortunately, due to the delays in postal service these days and the limited time for the exchange, we ended up switching to e-mail. I have been making it a point to send a few postcards from my travels this summer and that's been fun. Thanks for sparking thoughts about the postal service and about all the wonderful letters I've received over the years.
This is a weird response to your theme, but in addition to what everyone else has said about the value of letter writing, (I wrote letters to my son from embryo to moving away from home for a job far away), I love how you incorporated real information in your poem—and thank you for linking to it. As a craft move, this is something worthwhile talking to kids about and letting them play with.
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