It's nice to know that someone would care enough to sit down and write an old fashioned letter instead of sending something that has been forwarded a thousand times.

It is nice getting a letter through regular mail. Nowadays it is so few and far between.To know that someone took the time to hand write a letter to me. I usually still see this some at Christmas. but during the year is real nice. I like getting emails too though.

Yes it's nice but it's also nice to recieve an email that is genuinely written by the person. My sis in law told me she refuses to read any email I send her and since that is basically the way I do things (usually am out of one of the following: pens,paper,envelopes and usually stamps) so as a result, I don't send her anything, then she complains. Oh well. Work with me or suffer, I always say.

This is one of those things that I feel I am getting less and less since e-mailing is an easy and quicker luxory. I get letters every so often from my best friends who have now moved on to all parts of the country. It always makes my day getting letters from them in the mailbox rather than the stupid junk mail or bills that I always get. The greatest is when someone that I haven't heard from in a really long time writes me a letter.

It is much more exciting to reach in the mailbox and see familiar handwriting with a distant postmark than to click on your inbox and read You have 3 new messages

I very much agree that this seems to be something that is done less and less and is definitely more meaningful. I have an older cherished friend who lives in California, even though she has mastered the computer enough so that we can exchange emails now and then, she still sends letters to me. I cherish these and her delicate writing script, almost a lost art in itself. She often adds photos, pressed flowers from her garden and recipes that she has jotted down on her index cards with whimsical drawings that she has added. These treasured letters I will have forever, long after my computer has crashed.

There is something so much warmer in actually writing a letter by hand,putting it in an envelope & mailing it to someone.Maybe it's the physical presence of the letter from one hand to another,or the time and energy put in to true writing as opposed to a quick e-mail.I like the tree-saving of e-mail-but there are many plants other than trees that can be used to make paper:KENAF being a prime example.

Something I treasure and appreciate.

Nothing beats receiving a letter, esp. if it's a long-awaited reply to one of your own.