E-mail or letter
With all the social media and texts ,e-mail ,etc am I the only one who likes to recieve a proper hand written letter from family ,friends etc or am I out of date !!
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No you're not out of date. I used to type letters all the time when I worked (retired last October), and they were still typing them then, and we get lots of letters from the hospital as well
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But seriously, yes I would prefer letters written to me and not messages that I can hardly understand.0 -
With all the social media and texts ,e-mail ,etc am I the only one who likes to recieve a proper hand written letter from family ,friends etc or am I out of date !!
I love to receive letters, and I love to write them, but I also send emails and texts.
I like long and newsy letters - the hand-written envelopes always are opened first - but I'd prefer to receive a quick text, email or a phone call when I need to know anything quickly. Thank goodness we now have a lot of different ways of communicating
- both fast, and slow. Gone are the days when we needed to send a telegram to inform relatives of some important news.... and then wait sometimes days for a reply.0 -
I use all ways of communicating.
When the weather is foul outside and a trip to the post box means a general soaking, it's easy to keep in touch with friends who are miles away by email.
I don't text very often and prefer to use email rather than phoning; so I have time to think about my replies without getting myself in a hole.
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Just posting a letter has become an expensive luxury. Then you have the dilema that if you send it second-class, will the recipient feel insulted?
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I think we tend to keep in touch more frequently by e-mail where as written comunication is usually reserved for Christmas and birthdays. We do one of the dreaded Round Robin at Christmas mainly for those we don't keep in contact with on a regular basis
or to those we know that don't use computers.David
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My maths master at school called me 'spider 1' on account of my handwriting. My twin brother was known as 'spider 2'.
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Emails usually but letters (or 'phone calls)to the friends who aren't computer literate. I think though, on some occasions, a hand written letter is more appropriate...usually the ones that need no reply such as letters of condolence. The other argument
could be "Hand-written" or "typed"?
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Much as I hate to say it, I recognise that the handwritten letter has probably had its day. Killed off partially due to the cost of sending a letter and its dreadful slowness now. We used to get two deliveries a day. One between 8am & 9am and one about
lunchtime. But now its one delivery only at about 2pm if you are lucky.The other problem is that with age my handwriting has deteriorated!
TF
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My maths master at school called me 'spider 1' on account of my handwriting. My twin brother was known as 'spider 2'.
I am sure that you don't write like a spider now CY!
. When I look back at my writing from schooldays, I can scarcely recognise it as my
own! Of course, that was in the days when notes were 'dictated' by the teachers, some of whom took great delight in dictating as fast as they could!
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For me it's Email & text. It can't go missing, you have a copy of 'sent & received' it's quick & easy. It can be duplicated instantly & go out to many people.
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On the occasions when I put pen to paper rather than pixels to screen, my OH says she can never read my writing. Perhaps I should have been a doctor although come to think of it, I don't want to stand on a cold windy picket line.
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That's the glory of Technology CY, your handwriting looks much the same as mine-result
. PS-I was hoping for a Spiderman tale too
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Keeping in touch with my relatives in Canada is so much easier and quicker via email.
As a teenager I would spend hours writing letters to pen pals, wish we'd had email back then.
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We have an elderly Aunt, 92 and counting. I handwrite to her quite frequently, and try and send her a postcard from where ever we are visiting. When we called in to see her, (fabulous care home!) she had them up on display in her room, along with those sent
by my SIL. Obviously they mean a lot to her, which is lovely.0 -
We have siblings living abroad - email/ FaceTime are invaluable for keeping in touch. We instant message our sons. BUT we write long newsy letters to friends and family who are not so good with technology and use paper communication when we want 'hard copies'
of important stuff - some companies will work with emails but want a letter to follow up0 -
My handwriting is still to the same standard as when I was at school ==> surprised the Examiners could even read my name, never mind my answers.
For this simple reason I only hand write Letters &/or Cards for special reasons such as Great Thanks, Commiserations etc etc.
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Email and text are useful for quick communications, Facetime is outstanding to talk to my grandchildren who cannot write yet but love chattering.
However a long, newsy, paper letter (typed in my case as my handwriting is atrocious) is great to read time and again and can be very precious to keep for years to come. I still have some from
my late wife when we first met, which was before email and text in any case.0 -
I still write letters quite a lot but they are not hand written. I so rarely write with a pen these days that I find it both painful (literally as I have problems with my hands), very slow and the result is barely legible. The only letters I hand write now
are sympathy letters or any other letters that require a deeply personal touch.I don't accept that letters have to be hand written to carry that sense of personal warmth. It is the words that matter not the medium in which they are written; however, I do think snail mail letters somehow have more meaning to them than emails.
My biggest gripe is people who write emails, and especially texts, in some awful shorthand and don't put paragraph breaks (admittedly once not possible in texts), don't write sentences, don't start with Dear .... and don't sign off properly.
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I use Emails, Texts and Skype to communicate with friends and family. Using snail mail is a NO NO -- the price of sending a letter is a complete rip off.
K
In June 1974 the price of a first class stamp went up to 4.5p. The retail price index was then 16.5. The RPI in December 2015 was 260.6. 4.5p x (260.6/16.5) = 71p. A first class stamp actually costs 63p. That sounds quite cheap to me.
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I use Emails, Texts and Skype to communicate with friends and family. Using snail mail is a NO NO -- the price of sending a letter is a complete rip off.
K
In June 1974 the price of a first class stamp went up to 4.5p. The retail price index was then 16.5. The RPI in December 2015 was 260.6. 4.5p x (260.6/16.5) = 71p. A first class stamp actually costs 63p. That sounds quite cheap to me.
Write your comments here...What you are failing to understand GDj is, away back in 1974 there was no domestic Electronic communication such as we have this century. Therefore your claim that to write and send a letter today is cheap at 71pence is miss-leading, it is really expensive when compared with Emails Texts and Skype. Everybody is free to choose their own method of course BUT IMO sending mail for the full 71 pence compared with sending for free is a definite No NO.
K
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I assume that we are talking about informal letter/comunications to friends and family. Just one point but we have been advised by our legal team, both for Newcastle LEA where I work and in my work as a staff govenor for Sunderland LEA, not to send any 'official' and/or important documents (scanned letter, attached word, excel files) by email. Two main reasons, an address can be traced phsically, proof of address is often needed when applying for jobs, credit.. ) and a postie will deliever to that address or take it back. E mails can be made at will by anyone and ther is no way of knowing that the email address given by pupil Bloggs is actually a real one or will actually reach Mr & Mrs Bloggs. Secondlyfor LEA and staff/govenor use we can only send emails to those recipents who have a 'secure' email account at both ends to stop anyone intercepting it So if my Head teacher wanted to send me (in my capacity of chair of govenors) any document then I have to install encrption software on my home computer. As this is at the schools expense we have decided to go back to post.
As I said this post is about informal letters but just thought I would share this.
Would those above who like emails - would you be prepared to get important legal documnets (mortage, deeds...) by post or email? A postie might forgive a one character error in your postal address, get one character wrong in your email address....
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I actually prefer emails and in reply to Cornersteady i prefer to get all my documents in email format (prefably as a a PDF attachment). When i supply my email address i always double check it and all websites that will be emailing will ask you for it twice
to prevent mistakes.The reason i prefer it by email is that electronic documents are easier to store and i will never loose them.
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I actually prefer emails and in reply to Cornersteady i prefer to get all my documents in email format (prefably as a a PDF attachment). When i supply my email address i always double check it and all websites that will be emailing will ask you for it twice
to prevent mistakes.The reason i prefer it by email is that electronic documents are easier to store and i will never loose them.
You will never lose an electronic copy of a document?
Wow, that's quite an assumption.
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