When Was The Last Time You...

[barry1010]

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?  

[Barsel]

Am I imagining this or does the cost of the stamps go up every year?

Every year I hear people say, (myself included,) I'm cutting down on the number of cards I send this year.

[vulcan42]

First class stamp was increased to £1:25 last October,the third rise in eighteen months. Royal mail have yet to cotton that when a price is increased people stop buying.

[pastafreak]

They went up just recently Barsel...1.25! Yikes.

I stopped sending cards a few years ago...only my brother gets one now.

I last wrote lots letters when I first came to the UK. I think I've kept all the ones from my brother and mum. Mum also sent tiny, hand painted cards that she made...I have quite a few. Maybe I'll find a way to display them. Letter writing went out the door when my brother and I went on line. My handwriting is atrocious now.

[Countrylover]

My handwriting went downhill after learning shorthand and then got steadily worse!   My Dad's handwriting was perfection.  Mum's wasnt far behind,

[Canary42]

1. About three weeks ago

2. Yes, several.

[rockyracoon]

Haven't sent a letter, but I regularly send cards, usually via Moonpig.

[youngmafbog]

No letters but strangley last week I came upon a pad of Basildon Bond.  Kept it but I doubt I will use it.

As for cards I give them but rarely post them, 'er indoors posts a couple I think.

[youngmafbog]

I use Moonpig but like to get the cards sent to me so I can personalise them.

[barry1010]

You personalise Moonpig cards before you buy them. I'm confused why you pay to have them posted to you, young

[Patsy33]

When I remember.. 

[Patsy33]

^^^^^

That was in answer to emptying toaster!

Can't remember the last time I wrote a letter and post it. I will send about 3 Xmas cards though.

[10ClarionSt]

Vulcan @ 10.24:

"10ClarionSt, did you ever find out why Registrars ink is only available for official documents?

It seems a fairly innocuous item to be unavailable to the public."

No, I didn't really enquire. I got a small supply from a friend who used to be a registrar, but when she retired, my supply dried up! She told me that the issue of the ink was strictlty controlled. I must admit I was as baffled as you are about it but she said the ink must only be used on offical govt documents, such as marriage certificates, birth certificates etc. However, I don't think they use it at all now. They use printers, unlike when I acquired my parents' death certificates, they were both fully hand written, in registrars' ink. Times change!