Tuesday, October 4, 2011
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5 comments:
Love your post(s).
I have 148 Friends (not really, but that's the FB #). If I sent them each a post card, buying 10 for a $1, and taking 3 minutes to write each one, it would cost (depending on my day rate) anywhere from $316.72 to $945.72 ... or $2.14 - $6.39 ea. That doesn't include time spent choosing the cards and deciding which one goes to whom ...
So I sent one from the Vatican to my brother and his family about two years ago ...
Thanks, CR. You make a good point about cost ineffectiveness (both time and $) of posting en masse via snail mail. But ye olde handheld correspondence can prove surprisingly effective when trying to get one person's attention.
A while ago, when I was having multitudinous problems with twitter and getting no satisfaction on getsatisfaction.com, I mailed Biz Stone a letter on handheld stationery from the desk of Betty Draper and got the satisfaction of seeing the letter on his flickr feed, and the greater satisfaction of problem resolution.
I dearly miss the thrill of receiving a hand written letter or post card. I was taught to write thank you notes from the time I could write. I became an inveterate letter writer thereafter. My parents saved my correspondence and I now have it. It's hilarious the stuff you write as a child & teen. My husband saved my lteers to him throughout college, my extended tour through Europe, our divorce & eventual remarriage. My friends have many of my letters. I wish I had them all back even though it's somewhat embarrassing to read what a featherheaded ass I was as a teen & young woman.
I still collect hotel stationery if I can find it. We were in NYC 2 wks ago, staying at The Algonquin. They have nie stationery as well as post cards with New Yorker cartoons on them. I took them all. I will write on them & mail them and I will feel quite satisfied.
Sounds like there's a novel in those letters your husband saved, CG. Love that The Algonquin still stocks fine stationery, appropriate given the writerly heritage. Next time you're in town, give a shout if you've got time for Schrafft's or BAltman's.
I would love that! I'd like to have a drink or soda and swap stories. I bet yours are interesting and a different perspective from mine. I never pictured working in NYC though I did a great deal of national broadcast sales with the agencies. Loved those trips. Miss those days. Flying was still fun, expense accounts were large (especially mine) and I had unlimited energy.
If you are serious, I'll let you know. My husband is consulting with a photography guru and we hope to get there more often (especially if she can help him sell his work on a larger scale).
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