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I sent my first kids snail mail and the response made me cry
https://www.reddit.com/r/Positivity/comments/1ukocvf/i_sent_my_first_kids_snail_mail_and_the_response/I started a snail mail club in April. I have maybe 2 subscribers now by June.
This week one of them, a mum, wrote to tell me her four-year-old daughter received her first letter on Sunday. It's a letter from a shy hedgehog called Prickly (I write a children's version too, where the letters come from a fictional hedgehog in a hawthorn hedge).
In the letter, Prickly invites her to write back to him, to the woodland, with the help of a bee called Buzzy who fetches the post.
The mum told me that on Sunday morning, her daughter sat and wrote a letter to the woodland, thanking it for the trees and the plants and the animals. They walked out to their garden (which backs onto woodland) and "posted" it into the trees.
That same afternoon, Prickly's letter arrived. The kid had spent the morning having a tea party with her stuffed animals. And the letter from Prickly was all about him having his first ever tea party with the bee.
Coincidences like this are the whole reason I do snail mail. Anyway, I just wanted to share with people who would understand.
Snail mail still does something nothing else can!
This week one of them, a mum, wrote to tell me her four-year-old daughter received her first letter on Sunday. It's a letter from a shy hedgehog called Prickly (I write a children's version too, where the letters come from a fictional hedgehog in a hawthorn hedge).
In the letter, Prickly invites her to write back to him, to the woodland, with the help of a bee called Buzzy who fetches the post.
The mum told me that on Sunday morning, her daughter sat and wrote a letter to the woodland, thanking it for the trees and the plants and the animals. They walked out to their garden (which backs onto woodland) and "posted" it into the trees.
That same afternoon, Prickly's letter arrived. The kid had spent the morning having a tea party with her stuffed animals. And the letter from Prickly was all about him having his first ever tea party with the bee.
Coincidences like this are the whole reason I do snail mail. Anyway, I just wanted to share with people who would understand.
Snail mail still does something nothing else can!
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Snail mail use. And we send post cards when we travel by rv. It's hard to find post cards. And sometimes if the person you ask is young, they have no idea what you're talking about. It's kinda funny 
I think we'll try that. We've also picked some up at flea markets.
That's when I started receiving mail addressed to me!
Does anyone remember "The Weekly Reader"?
Does an e mail carry the same physical impact? No.
Excellent project! I can picture the happiness! 
The Weekly Reader
Write letters and send them to their great grandparents. The later appreciates it very much and then so do the grandkids because they get a reply letter.