When Was The Last Time You...

barry1010 | 09:47 Fri 01st Dec 2023 | ChatterBank

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Wrote a letter by hand, put a stamp on the envelope and posted it?

Apart from sending official forms, documents and portrait photos that couldn't be emailed, I can't remember the last time I posted a letter.

As a separate question have you sent a card in the past 12 months?

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Spicerack

50 years ago.

No.

mallyh

as my family live quite away from me i send lots of birthday cards . i always entered comps by post but apart from Love it i enter on line now x

10ClarionSt

I write lots of letters by hand. And I use a fountain pen, not a biro. I own lots of fountain pens, eg, Cross, Watermans, Shaefer, Colibri, amongst others. I also have lots of calligraphy pens and and inks. The ultimate ink to own is Registrars'ink, because it darkens with age, unlike normal ink, which fades with age. Registrars ink is used for official documents and is made entirely from natural ingredients. The same ink was used on the Magna Carta, which is why you can still read it. I use stamps as well! 😉

10ClarionSt

Actually Barry, I am going to write some cards and letters this morning. It's that time of year!

10ClarionSt

I meant to say that Registrars' Ink is virtually impossible to get hold of, as it's only manufactured for official use. I did manage to get some a few years ago, but that has now run out.

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I'm pleased people are still writing letters in the traditional way, 10C. I confess my handwriting has only ever been legible, but has deteriorated through lack of practice.

10ClarionSt

Calligraphy has long been a hobby of mine. I've been fascinated by neat handwriting since I was a boy, and yet, Mrs Clarion says my handwriting is terrible. She says if you take it to a chemists, they'll make you a bottle up!

Vagus

I send maybe 10 birthday cards throughout the year, and usually write a short note inside them all. I buy the cards in packs from The Works, something like £1 for a pack of five, buy three packs and get one free. The stamp is by far the most costly part of sending them.

I send four Christmas cards.

roopower

Can't remember when I last wrote a letter but it wasn't long ago, one of several to an elderly aunt. I send a lot of cards for various occasions, thinking of Christmas cards now!

-SharonA-

Apart from writing in birthday cards, my writing is awful. If I were to write a letter, by the time I get to the end my writing is illegible.

sandyRoe

I can't remember. I posted some Christmas cards about this time last year.

Countrylover

Wrote a letter by hand about 18 months ago to an older person.

The letter was enclosed in the card. The person has since died.

Sent about 6 Christmas cards a week before Christmas last year to close relatives and friends who live far away - The only people that get cards from us!

nicebloke1

Just had a long think, cant even remember the last time I wrote a letter, or posted one. But I dont have a lot of faith in RM delivering one. Dont send cards as all the people I know I see in person.

Countrylover

I remember years ago multiple post rounds every days in the weeks before Christmas by students recruited by the Post office and my parents receiving over 100 cards on average. That was in London.

Countrylover

My son lives in my mother's old house and still has some stuff of hers in the attic. He recently presented a box of things to me including all the long letters I wrote to her and my Dad when I was working in France and Spain in my teens and 20s. It was great reading - brought back so many memories!! Even the memories I didn't tell her about!!

Tilly2

In my student days, I worked for the post office, delivering mail, during my Christmas break.

I got some good tips.

Countrylover

I remember getting so exited when piles of cards kept coming through the letter box, Tilly. Back then though The Christmas season was only a few weeks. Much better!!

DTCwordfan

yes on the cards regularly and shorty to sit down and send some Chrissy cards. I need to go and see the 'Bishop of London' for some stamps....our post office woman is a dead-ringer for her.