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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jun 24, 2024 14:31:44 GMT
Does anyone here still write to anyone via snail mail? (postal letters)
When I was a child I had 30 or so penpals and wrote a lot of letters.
I recently thought it would be nice to do that again. But how do you go about getting a penpal?
I think they used to have adverts in newspapers.
When I searched Mr Google it just gave me paid websites and they seem to have questionable people on them. Mostly who want to "write" via email.
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Post by Loz on Jun 24, 2024 15:23:56 GMT
It's been many years since I sent a hand-written letter! I have, I guess you'd call them pen-pals, but I stay in touch electronically these days.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jun 24, 2024 15:34:10 GMT
The only things I write by hand these days are lists and christmas cards..
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Post by sweetpea on Jun 24, 2024 19:41:51 GMT
I don't write letters anymore but do send cards (snail mail) with a short note in place of a letter - posted one today actually. I think it's sad that people don't send cards anymore, though I understand why, with the rising cost of stamps.
In the distant past, I had pen pals too, in different countries. Not as many as 30 though!
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jun 24, 2024 19:44:49 GMT
Yes. Stamps are very expensive sweetpea.
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Post by jellybean on Jun 24, 2024 20:28:28 GMT
Do you ever wonder what happened to the pen pals you used to have Marianne, and how did you lose touch, was it an age thing, or the start of the Internet?
I wonder if youngsters nowadays would even know how to write a proper letter 🤔
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jun 24, 2024 22:17:30 GMT
I do wonder yes. I don't have any of their letters now, I think my mum must have thrown them away. No I lost touch long before the internet, when I was in my teens, before I started work. I started work in 1995 when I was 19, that is when I started using the internet. Do you ever wonder what happened to the pen pals you used to have Marianne, and how did you lose touch, was it an age thing, or the start of the Internet? I wonder if youngsters nowadays would even know how to write a proper letter 🤔
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Post by Azalea on Jun 25, 2024 1:39:42 GMT
Reddit has a pen pal group.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jun 25, 2024 11:45:10 GMT
Thank you :-) I've since found one on facebook!! Reddit has a pen pal group.
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Post by skysmum on Jun 25, 2024 13:32:10 GMT
Do you ever wonder what happened to the pen pals you used to have Marianne, and how did you lose touch, was it an age thing, or the start of the Internet? I wonder if youngsters nowadays would even know how to write a proper letter 🤔 One of my girls works in a primary school, she says some children when they start are amazed by books, they tap them instead of turning a page at first as all they have known are phones or keyboards, how sad is that ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png) . I have a kindle but still love my books. Glad you have found a pen pal page M ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jun 25, 2024 14:58:35 GMT
That is pretty sad skysmum. We have read to Eve from a young age, so she has a lot of books.
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Post by Azalea on Jun 29, 2024 17:23:03 GMT
I just remembered this. Before the year 2000 or so, there was a balloon pen pal "game". You write down your name, address, and a few facts about yourself. Tape it to a balloon, and wait for someone to eventually find it and start writing to you. I think this was discouraged because it could be dangerous...you don't know what sort of person will find the balloon.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jun 29, 2024 17:52:17 GMT
I'd not heard of that. I don't think I'd want to take part though :-D I just remembered this. Before the year 2000 or so, there was a balloon pen pal "game". You write down your name, address, and a few facts about yourself. Tape it to a balloon, and wait for someone to eventually find it and start writing to you. I think this was discouraged because it could be dangerous...you don't know what sort of person will find the balloon.
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Post by Ira on Jun 29, 2024 20:26:37 GMT
It sounds cute and fun, but potentially dicey
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Post by Azalea on Jun 30, 2024 2:12:42 GMT
Apparently, in 2001, a ten-year-old girl named Laura Buxton released a balloon in England. It was actually found by a man whose neighbors had the name "Buxton". Their daughter, age nine, was also named Laura. It turned out that both girls owned Labrador dogs, rabbits, and guinea pigs.
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