If your excuse is poor handwriting, flush that excuse. Or heave it out the window. Or cut it up into little pieces and mix them in with the dog’s food. Do something other than hang on to it!
With e-mail, text messaging, and instant messaging, a handwritten note is getting rarer and therefore more special.
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66 percent of U.S. Internet users said email was their preferred channel for written communications between friends.
Every week, the average person receives 1.5 personal letters.
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There is warmth in a handwritten note — it instantly makes the message more personal, creates a more intimate feeling, and makes the recipient feel more valued.
With e-mail and instant messaging, a handwritten note is getting rarer and therefore more special.
The full article is, well, fuller: A Note of Gratitude.
With scanners available, and the hassle of addressing an envelope and finding the correct postage, how about we start a trend of handwriting notes, scanning them, and then emailing as a jpeg attachment?
That’s a good idea, Peter. In fact, I’ve done that a time or three when I wanted to get a personal letter to someone in Mexico who doesn’t have email. Yeah, I could have typed it…but I wanted him to have a handwritten-by-me letter. So, I wrote it and scanned it and emailed it to a mutual friend who has email who then printed it out and delivered it for me. Very nice!