Email versus postal mail

I love postal mail.For me it's like receve present.I'm feel like a child with santa claus.The mail is not so exciting.

The mail is for me like a rapid contact, it can be with a best friend or just a simple contact, because i have different classification on my messenger.

Have a new postal mail is very interesting, it's like as a secret, a secret garden. And also i can read a another this letter in few year or just not know, or in a bus ...

So the both is great and complementary.

I have no preference but posts allow to exchange real things and are slower than emails.

Hello-

Another thing that just popped in my head is that I think emailing has sort of ruined it for postal mail- don't you think?

I am one who hates to type and my hands get really sore typing.

Kathleen

well i think is a personnal choice.We don' t have to judge anybody for that.

I prefer postal mail because it's real and often more personal than e-mails. It gives me a different, a better feeling to hold the letter in my hands and read the lines over and over again, even if I print out an e-mail it doesn't feel the same. Besides, I never manage to keep in touch with someone only via e-mail for more than just a couple of weeks. Sooner or later I always get fed up with all those messages to reply to ... and instantly if possible. So snail mail is my choice!

But I have a more serious reason for my preference, too. I don't have internet at home and so I check my e-mails from work ... and of course, in the office I shouldn't spend too much time on my private correspondance! Probably, I won't be able to go online regularly anymore as from November because my work contract is about to end. From previous experience I know that I often don't check my e-mails for a week or two (or even more) when I'm out of job.

Hello and a few words about the topic that is always near my heart: e-mail or paperletters! I started snailmailing at the age of 8 or near by putting my little letters to the kids of mum's friends to travel together with mum's letters when she wrote to them. So ever since I've enjoyed the warm feeling I get, when I see that there is a letter from a friend in the mailbox - or on the carpet of the foreroom as we here get the mail delivered to the flat directly. That's a feeling that can save the whole day! With the years the writing has become a way to practise foreign languages, to teach Finnish to a couple of people - but still the friendship is the main thing. During these snailmailing years (over 45 by now) I've of course also lost some friends: some have died, some have moved or had life situations changed so that there hasn't been time for any extra things more. But I'm even today having friends, who started with the writing to me 40 years ago! I'm also sparing the letters I get - some of the very first ones have gone lost in the many moves I've been forced to do during the years, but most of them are well-kept - and to look at an old letter and re-read it is a melancholy moment!

For me the paperletters are the only right ones - I'm a very "talkative" person (as you can here see) so my letters are never short - and that would mean a disaster if I'd start writing only e-mails and tried to put everything in them... I'm mostly working by the computer the whole day, so it's also a relief to come away from here - and relax by writing "normal" letters to friends. Of course I use e-mails to contact my friends,too, but only for some short notes to tell something. But like it has been said here before, everyone makes one's own choice!

Email can never compare to postal mail. I remember my grandmother who always write and asked me to write to her because she wished to see me in my letter. There is an incomparable sense of joy and wonder when you receive something that has touched human hands. Sometimes it is more practical to have email because it is faster and for daily correspondence I use base email. Or with friends who are completely new like maybe testing the waters here too.

Reading something handwritten is an experience by itself and especially I like to decorate my letters and I treasure and cherish each letter I have received through life and would often look at them and love to get the “energies” contained in each letter or remember the event that they were exchanged at.