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'Snail mail is cool' 27 Aug 2013 | 07:02 pm
"Snail mail is cool," 10-year-old Eloise Barrett is quoted as saying in an article about pen pals in the "Hills News." Eloise lives in Australia, and she and her schoolmates at Galston Public School ...
Two of my favorite things — Girl Scouts and letters! 27 Aug 2013 | 01:52 am
Here's a great story about some Girl Scouts who collected 610 thank you letters to show appreciation for UNICEF workers. The girls are from Garden City, N.Y. Click that link above to read the entire,...
New stamp commemorates March on Washington 24 Aug 2013 | 03:10 am
Today, the U.S. Postal Service issued a new stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. On Aug. 28, 1963, nearly a quarter of a million people came together in Washingto...
Sixty Years of Round-Robin Letters 22 Aug 2013 | 06:08 pm
The summer edition of the Colby College magazine features an article on a group of 11 women who graduated from Colby (in Waterville, Maine) in 1952 and started a round-robin letter-writing circle. Si...
Great blog post about the letter that was never sent 21 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
Ashley Woods writes in her blog on The Huffington Post about the letter she wishes she would've written to author Elmore Leonard, who died yesterday at the age of 87. It's not just a great commentary...
Letter Collecting 20 Aug 2013 | 08:13 pm
Last week, the Wall Street Journal ran an article about collecting literature, including letters and postcards. The article mentioned a Sotheby's auction earlier this summer in which the collection o...
Writing interesting letters 19 Aug 2013 | 07:46 pm
I am always fascinated by the many different ways that people write letters. Most everyone, in their own unique way, makes every letter interesting. Some may not even realize that what they're doing a...
Made in America Stamps 8 Aug 2013 | 06:42 pm
The contributions of America’s industrial-era workers are memorialized on a new sheet of Forever stamps titled Made in America: Building a Nation. The stamps, which feature black-and-white photographs...
Young Czech writer wins letter-writing contest 7 Aug 2013 | 08:23 pm
Fifteen-year-old Daniel Korčak, from Ostrava, Czech Republic, recently won the Universal Postal Union's 42nd International Letter-Writing Competition for Young People. His letter was written to the c...
Pen pals for 74 years finally meet! 31 Jul 2013 | 09:25 pm
This is a great story about the lasting impact of pen pals! The original story was in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times newspaper. And, here is a TV report about the two women: WSAV: News, Weather, an...
