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Royal Mail
Air-Mail
Snail-Mail
E-mail
Changes seen
Since those long-ago days
Of pen-pals
Worldwide.
Now my pen’s put away
Used only for cards
At Christmas
For weddings
And birthdays
Replaced by DMs
And tweets
Less to say.
37 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Mail
crispina kemp 
It’s the same everywhere
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Yea. Yet I do still write letters… but not as often as I used to, true
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That’s nice.
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Sometimes a text message isn’t long enough!
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Very true.
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I still have half a dozen penpals, started writing decades ago. As you say, this is something to be thankful for in our age. Some even still handwrite their news. 🙂
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I love to receive handwritten letters
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Trouble is, as we get older the brain and hand get a bit wobbly. I like writing by hand, but I’m very glad for the editing capability of a keyboard.
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I won’t disagree with that 🙂
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While it keeps us in immediate touch, it has lost some of that special charm of receiving a letter.
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I remember waiting for the postman, and getting so excited. Now mostly the postman brings bills
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I still do… Though he mostly brings crap and a bill or two that I don’t get online…
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Bo-hoo!
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😁
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I remember my grandmother getting letters from Scotland. They were on very thin blue paper to keep the charges down on airmail.
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I remember writing 36 (yes, 36) pages on that very thin airmail paper to my beloved who was working in Far East
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Wow, that’s quite a few pages. But, love letters: no point in being concise!
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Stream of consciousness stuff mostly. I’m not one for counting the ways I love you!
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Pen-pals; youngsters today don’t know what they are missing.
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Text me, DM me. It’s all instant gratification!
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Another human skill bites the dust. Nicely done, Crispina.
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Thank you, Bill 🙂
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