When was the last time you received a real letter, hand written :) ?

Question

Thank you for your answers! :)

Have a wonderful day/night! :)

And when you last wrote one?

Answer 1

Oh, my dear friend, you ask good questions! I actually had to stop and ponder this one almost to the point of getting a headache!

I've received lengthy emails. I've been IM'd. I've received long-distance phone calls. But an honest-to-goodness handwritten letter? Stamped and sent via snail-mail?

Like a slap in the face, it occurs to me that the last handwritten letter I've ever received was close to six years ago. My grandmother still lived in another state, and I had recently been diagnosed with cancer. My grandmother wrote me a three-page letter of love and support--and that letter meant so much to me that I kept it.

I'm fine today, and my grandmother passed away a year ago... but yes: That's the last time anyone ANYWHERE sent me a handwritten letter. Oh, sure, Christmas cards, birthday cards, and such (sometimes with a little note inside)... but a letter? That distinction would be my grandmother, all those years ago.

Answer 2

LOL Moon, with e-mail, folks no longer do the "letter writing thing' anymore. An e-mail is delivered instantly whereas a handwritten letter can take as long as a week to get to it's destination. NOW the U.S. Mail only serves one purpose, to deliver bills and advertising junk mail. The Postal Service has priced itself completely OUT of the message department by increasing the cost of postage every year while still giving huge breaks and subsidies to the JUNK mail users. Add to that the investment in time, energy and writing supplies and it's just easier and more effecient to use e-mail rather than snail mail, except for those PERSONAL touches that a card or a personal, handwritten letter seems to be able to serve on an emotional level.

BB,
Raji the Green Witch

Answer 3

It's been quite a few years in both cases. Last one I wrote (though not for the mail, but to leave on the kitchen table when I went to work) was probably five years ago. Last one to go in the mail would have been about that same time, to my mother-in-law.

Last one I received would have been even longer. Long enough I really don't remember. Perhaps all the way back to when my mother was still alive, which would be the late 1980s.

Answer 4

I like this question !!! ;)


I've been thinking about writing some letters to friends and family members. I usually email instead. We really should get back to hand written letters. I like this question !!! ;)
However, I usually write a a note when I send Christmas/Season's Greetings cards. My responses are usually a card with a note, too.

Answer 5

When my brother was in Iraq. Early 2005 at the latest.

The last letter I wrote was last year. I wrote a description of the conditions of the house I had been renting. I was moving out. The letter went to the person who managed the house.

Answer 6

May 2007

Answer 7

The last hand-written letter I received was in 2006 from my uncle who used to ring his brother (my father) at 6am each morning for 40 years. When my father died, I decided to start writing to my uncle once a week. He died in 2006 when he was 96 and I'd exchanged over 1500 letters with him over 30 years.
His letters were scrawly and often indeciferable, but I treasure them, and re-read them often.

Answer 8

Good morning from back east Moon! I received a beautifully handwritten letter in pencil from a young man in prison. He had just won a political election, told his driver he would drive himself home after celebrating and hit and killed a intoxicated woman walking in the middle of the street. His career vanished before him. He was arrested and charged, sentenced to four years in prison. I campaigned on his behalf as well as over 200 other people writing character references. He writes to me frequently.

Answer 9

Last week, from my Dad - he's not into the computer age.

I get them regularly from him, and from my husband's 95-year-old Aunt in Ireland.

I don't send hand-written ones back though, I can't even read my own writing myself, so nobody else stands a chance!!

Answer 10

I wrote about 30 last month.
I'm an artist and I do a lot of calligraphy on order.

I last received one... hm.. about half a year ago I think.