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To: Justin C who wrote (60759)	10/23/2001 12:15:07 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I give special attention to any handwritten mail for my route. I'm sorry to see that there is so little of it. I think a handwritten note makes it more special than either a phone call or e-mail. Also, I received a handwritten note from an internet penpal, and it seemed much more personal and "real" than internet correspondence. These are my sentiments exactly. If the Postal Service were run by competent people, they would run advertising that stressed this very point. To encourage people to use the mail. AT&T did this very thing during the years that it had a monopoly on long distance service. You have to advertise, simply to motivate people to do something that they will enjoy, and that will bring pleasure to someone else. So, DARians, get out those fountain pens, and your best foolscap, and WRITE to someone, dammit. That's an order. General JF.

To: Justin C who wrote (60759)	10/24/2001 11:31:02 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 71178

Somehow I don't think a stack of e-mails is going to have the same sweet nostalgia that the perfumed, beflowered, pastel pink stationery written in lavender ink (yes, yes, I really did that) has for my generation. We even used sealing wax. During one of the long nights while I was home with my mother before her death, I found all my high school and college love letters in the attic neatly tied in blue ribbons from all the boys who ever loved me enough to write. My dear mother, anal compulsive to the end, had organized them all by dates and tied them up. She also had kept my old rabbit coat up there, all mangy and full of holes; I still wonder why. So I put it on and sat down and read the letters and wondered what happened to all those nice boys. Then I threw them all out.