I have a strong bond with post office... i have spent most of my childhood days in the post office in my town... Watching postmen collecting the post from the boxes, people walking with small bags with stamped covers, red walls with patches of sticky gum pastes, posters of many money saving plans on walls, stamping sounds, sound of creeching old fans, Post master with heavy dark framed spectacle, covers and forms all over the cabins... Have watched most of the Indian cricket matches in the tv room there, it is the place where i started loving Ganguly's game, also the reason for my very basic GK - the reading room in the office with dozens of daily newspapers...
Golden days...
I mailed some of my friends to share their idea and moment of their last hand written snail mail (postel letter) to someone...
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Preethi - .....hmm.......well..the last snail mail i wrote was about a decade back!!! i was trying to keep in touch with a brotherly friend of mine...that time i did not own my computer...he was a very sweet and caring person and i simply couldnt let go off him.....but after 3-4 years of our letters he got relocated and i lost touch with him....i miss him!... :(
Nisha -
well, i gues it was 2 years bck, just before my cousin sister got married, with whom i ws in constant touch through letters.
she had promised me to keep writing to me even after her marriage, but it never happened.
n so it was the last,unfortunately :)
Gowtham -
Hey,
1. the last time i wrote a mail was in 10th grade. I was in a boarding school then no no mobile phones are allowed.... Calling to school land line was worse than sun Music line....
2. The Funny thing is nobody is used to writing letters in my home. No there was no letters initially which made me frustrated because all my room mates will get letters often and we all discuss whats all happening in each others home but i would have no info and no clue whats happening back there. So my plan was to get more letters so i wrote a very Sentimental Mail back home from then on letters came pouring..funny thing even my Maid and neighbors wrote to me....
Vibhu -
The last i wrote a letter was to my father ....well i had a big issue of my handwriting being the worst and my father realized the only possible way to improve it was through continuous practice so i started to write letters since he resided in another country it was long letters which i used to send him .The contents of which consisted mainly just my days life and the exciting times i have had etc etc.
Well this did not help me much ...But once i joined my Architecture course i realized handwriting did have its role.I Improved a lot and i had written a quick one page letter bored in my class to my dad.Well to say he was impressed on the change i had in my writing and of course till date he makes sure it remains the same though the reach of emails and internet in general has become so easy to all of us guess post offices stay dud now days
Viyasakar -
my last letter was to my mother when i was in 2 nd year .the funniest part if the letter is ..to address and from address have the same name ..thts how our school trained us know . still i have the reply letter from my mom for the same .
Angeline -
I guess i wrote a letter to my Grandpa before a decade plus in my school days when my mom scolded me... sweet grandpa still carries that letter in his shirt pocket :)
And finally my experience...
My dad wrote a letter to me before 6 months asking me to apply for job in foreign companies. His long time wish is to see me working in other countries. I have that letter still in my dairy... Letter is one of the best medium between me and my dad since i came far from my family for my studies...
Snail mail always caries a sweet memories, care and love with it like we all experienced above. Every mail will have its own story to tell... Most of it will be treasure in the future...
The fast moving life has changed it into email and sms... Its hard to see the red post box in the town or city now a days... I remember the cards that i posted, greeting relatives and friends in the X-mas and festive times... It all changed to a simple forwarded SMS...
Y don't we greet our close persons with snail mail or greeting cards... at least for their birthdays... It may tell a sweet memorable story in our future!!!
love,
danny.
