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[aliseadae]

This post inspires me to try writing letters to people. However if I ask LJ to send me letters while I'm at college I might repeat my tendencies to be a horrid correspondent and not reply. If I did respond to letters, who would write to me?

Perhaps I should start long email correspondences. Then I wouldn't have to buy stamps.

ETA: Those of you interested in writing, my email address is [ljusername] [at] gmail [dot] com. Send e-letters there and, if you want a regular address, ask for it in an email.

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[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

I keep wanting to start letter-writing with people, but with many people it's so much easier just to email or IM them. (Also, price of stamps.)

Maybe we should pledge to write letters to each other this year? Except, given both our tendencies to not reply to letters, probably we will get exactly two letters into the correspondence and then trail off.

At least I know you won't send me letters in Barbie envelopes, though. Or say your favorite band is Nsync.

[aliseadae]

Stamps are expensive! I do like the idea of having long missives written in one's handwriting to keep.

Mm. We could each try writing one or two and see how well it goes.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I write paper letters--have since I was 12--but I'm also good about long e-mail correspondence.

[zehlyi.livejournal.com]

I would not only write you letters, I would put physicist stamps on them, and they are very cool stamps. (And then I'd stick 7 cents worth of smaller stamps to it, since my physicist stamps were bought when they cost 37 cents...)

[aliseadae]

Ooh, physicist stamps! Awesome!

[far-wanderer.livejournal.com]

I would write.
My experience has been that email works much better when available for this type of correspondence. No cost of stamps, and also no waste of paper for the envelope. People that draw are affected by the loss of an envelope, but I can't draw so I am quite biased in that regard. Also digital contact information and archives are much easier to maintain for people who move and/or travel a lot.