Fact: I love paper.
I love sending paper. And I love, love, love receiving paper. Getting the mail is one of my top ten favorite things to do. So much that I actually dislike days that the mail doesn’t come.
Like Sundays. And who dislikes Sundays? It’s like disliking Christmas. Blasphemy, folks.
Back to paper.
Today is the last day of ‘Snail Mail my Email,’ which is pretty much one of the coolest things ever. And it’s free.
The idea? Send an email (100 words or less) to snailmailmyemail2@gmail.com, along with the recipient’s physical address.
They’ll handwrite your note, make it all artistic, and send it in the mail for you. You can even select custom options for the note, like doodles or perfume sprays or lipstick kisses.
(Although the idea of some stranger kissing a note with lipstick that is then sent to one of my friends is sort of…creepy. Not to mention the germ contamination…sad side effect of paper mail.)
Did I mention that it’s free?
How did this all start? The project was started in 2011, with the goal of rebuilding personal connections in our digital world — and more than 10,000 letters were illustrated and mailed to over 70 countries. You can see many of these in the Snail Mail book.
So get writing!
cakerypapery 
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