Postal service depends on customers to write
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Editor,
Do we all remember the saying “cross your Ts and dot your Is?” It was from your penmanship teacher. The saying comes to me often as I sit down to write a letter.
Yes, I sit at my computer with spell check, grammar check and instant spell correction. I look into my drawer and see two Easterbrook pens and a Mont Blanc pen just sitting there, asking to be used again to send someone a missive, a card or a letter. With so much email, e-billing, e-pay, etc., what will we ever do if we have no mail system out there? Our United States Postal Service is waiting for your handwritten note and invitations to be sent through them. With all this email, etc., the mail service is starting to shrink. Yes, we all get the glossy prints, advertisements, catalogs and booklets. It’s far more unusual to see a note that is handwritten and with a beautiful stamp appear in our mailbox. It’s always a special treat to get a note from someone you know and not an email asking you to send it to all your friends or doom will descend upon you.
Our mail service depends on “first class” mail; we are of course always first class. Why don’t we all take out our paper and pen (as our teachers would say) and send a note, a letter, a poem or just an “I love you” to someone we know. I spelled out “I love you” instead of “ILY,” or “FBF,” or “LOL” — all abbreviations used for words we all know how to spell correctly and use.
Buy your stamps right where you live, at your post office. They are just like any mall store; you give them business by using them locally, and guess what, the big boys at the home office in Washington will say, “That’s a busy store; we better keep that one open.”
Enough of my thoughts on writing and penmanship; you have to use it or you will lose it. “Write on,” for those who remember that statement.
Connie Plaissay
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