Not a Rant, and Not Really a Rave, Just A Question

[Charlie]

I wonder how many on this forum, as an adult, have "written a letter" with pen/pencil and paper within the last 10 yrs (other than for a school assignment)? Seems we have all gone to scanning, printing, keying in, copy & paste, etc. since we have the opportunity (and why not?). It's been several years since I have. I just hope I don't forget how. Just curious.

 

[dustycorgill]

I still write letters. I actually prefer pen/pencil to paper vs. computer to be honest. But thats just me.

 

[Byrd666]

I've written one or two over the last twenty or so years. But due a rather debilitating injury I received that left me with some paralysis and loss of some fine motor skills, the keyboard is Much easier than writing. And a WHOLE lot more legible too.

But I do still have a notebook I write in for my personal musings and haikus and such.

 

[Younggun]

Very seldom. Last real letters I wrote were in '03 during basic training.

 

[Moonpie]

I write short notes and such all the time. Mostly for work.
An actual multi page written letter I haven't done since my Grandmother passed some years ago. She loved getting them.
Every once in a while I'll write something in a B-day card, baby card, get well card, etc.

 

[mitchntx]

I send hand written letters via snail mail to politicians.

I feel it makes a bigger impact instead a of a list of e-mail notes listed, easily selected and then deleted by an intern.

 

[txinvestigator]

I wonder how many on this forum, as an adult, have "written a letter" with pen/pencil and paper within the last 10 yrs (other than for a school assignment)? Seems we have all gone to scanning, printing, keying in, copy & paste, etc. since we have the opportunity (and why not?). It's been several years since I have. I just hope I don't forget how. Just curious.

Regularly

 

[Mikewood]

I do. The wife likes to get them so I send her real letters when I can. I see her every night but sometimes when I am away on business I fire one off. Tell her how my day went miss her etc. she loves it. It's fun.

 

[itchin]

One exception my buddy who was locked up in confinement on Guam. Other than that can't say I've written a leeter since the 90s.

 

[GlockOwner]

Last year, a friend of mine that lives in the UK now and I began to write actual letters to each other....it didn't last long though as we talked a lot on facebook messenger. A few years ago, I had no money to buy christmas gifts, so I wrote my mom a hand written poem thanking her for everything she has done to raise me.

 

[AcidFlashGordon]

I send hand-written letters to a friend who still works at one of my former companies. She thinks it's 'cute.' I have also sent hand-written letters to Harry "Pinkie" Reid letting him know just how big of an asshole (politically correctly put) he is, ESPECIALY after his last mentally deficient B.S. in Congress calling all the people sharing their Obuttfuckcare missteps "liars." THAT one I was NOT politically correct and even though that kind of thing isn't usually "correct form" when contacting an elected representative, it made me feel a whole LOT better letting him know that I think he's lower than whale shit.

 

[Southpaw]

The last handwritten letters I sent were to prisoners. That was up until two years ago.

 

[Charlie]

Thanks for all the input. I probably should write more letters and notes now that I've got a little more time. The problem with my writing is that it looks so bad that sometimes it hard to figure out what language it's written in! I do still write notes on birthday and Christmas cards and intend to write more handwritten letters in the future.

 

[Southpaw]

Thanks for all the input. I probably should write more letters and notes now that I've got a little more time. The problem with my writing is that it looks so bad that sometimes it hard to figure out what language it's written in! I do still write notes on birthday and Christmas cards and intend to write more handwritten letters in the future.

LOL!! Me too. You should see the look on my wife's face trying to read my grocery list!!!

 

[Bozz10mm]

I haven't hand written a letter in years. Ever since all my pens and pencils were lost in a terrible boating accident a few years back. I do sign greeting cards, birthday cards, etc., and even a check now and then. The hardest thing for me to do is address an envelope so that it is legible.

 

[Sapper740]

The art of Penmanship is alive and well in the Sapper household. I refuse to use text-ese or ebonics in posts to online forums, facebook, or emails and forcing oneself to actually sit down and put pen to paper refreshes the lessons we were taught over 50 years ago. Never under-estimate the power of a hand-written letter! I've had two major issues in the past, one with American Airlines and one with J.C. Penney. I got nowhere with either company through the normal channels of emails and phone calls but one hand-written letter to the CEOs of those two companies got me instant action. Don Carty (former CEO of AA) handled my complaint promptly by issuing a refund for the tickets I purchased AND giving me an open pass for anywhere AA flies. Ron Johnson (former CEO of J.C. Penney) wiped out the outstanding balance and gave my wife and I our window treatments for simply the deposit we put on them, a saving of several thousand dollars. Cursive is where it's at my friends!

 

[Mic]

Can't say I've written a letter, except to forward a complaint with Direct TV to one of their departments which you could not contact via any other method (or at least, nobody would give any contact info except for a mailing address). That worked out for us, but I'm guessing that is their way of minimizing their claims for this - "only the people who are really pissed are going to actually write a letter, so if they write, we'll give them what they want. If they don't, they lose out."

Other than that, I will write an occasional love note to the old lady and a always write my little to do lists and reminders on index cards that I have sitting prominently on my desk.

 

[BIGPAPIGREG]

I can't write

 

[breakingcontact]

Very seldom. Last real letters I wrote were in '03 during basic training.

Whoa. I was in basic in '02. Thought you were much older than me being as grumpy as you are. Thats probably last I wrote letters as well.

 

[breakingcontact]

I do. The wife likes to get them so I send her real letters when I can. I see her every night but sometimes when I am away on business I fire one off. Tell her how my day went miss her etc. she loves it. It's fun.

That's freaking awesome.