A Little Bit of Something that I Love: Postcards and Handwritten Letters by Nadya Irsalina

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Photo of fronts of postcards

Getting letters and postcards in the mail is a joy! When I was a kid, I even loved getting junk mail! Years ago, a friend told me that only handwritten could suffice for thank you notes, never email. I try to follow her advice as often as I can.

How about you? Do you write and/or receive handwritten mail?

Fellow blogger Nadya Irsalina inspires me to take it to a new level…

Nadya's Journal

I’ve always been interested to send letters since I was a kid. The curiousity grew from seeing rubik sabahat pena (penpals) on Bobo, a kid’s magazine that my mother bought for me. But I had to wait until I was in junior high school to actually start sending letters. I don’t know about you but finding a new letter on the mailbox is like a nice little surprise for me. Nothing beats the thrill of opening the mailbox and finding a letter, written and addressed just for me. I still remember when my dad’s friend sent a postcard from LA and I was so excited to read it and removed the stamp. I used to collect it, even though I wasn’t really a philately. To me, it’s quite saddening that years after that, letters carried by conventional postal service seemed to be left behind and replaced with modern technology like…

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17 thoughts on “A Little Bit of Something that I Love: Postcards and Handwritten Letters by Nadya Irsalina”

    1. Hi Squashmossy – results are posted at the credit union’s site – unfortunately my friend didn’t win. for me at least, was an interesting lesson — can you believe that winner got 15k votes?! to me, seems unfair that it turned out to be more of an exercise in getting participants to remind their friends on a daily basis about the bank…

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  3. In one of the homes I lived in as a child, the previous family had left a box of post cards they received from friends on their tours of Europe and other places. They were kept in my walk-in closet and I would sit in there and read them and be a part of trips that were taken in the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. I agree with you, the written word is a treasure trove!

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