The last handwritten thing most people received is still in a drawer somewhere.
Post is so rare now that a real envelope with a real name on it is an event. It gets read standing up, at the door, twice.
Four sentences is plenty. Say what they did, what it meant, and that you were thinking of them.
Buy the stamps this week or the note will live half-written on your desk until spring.
How to actually do it
- 01Buy cards and stamps in the same trip.
- 02Write four sentences, not a letter.
- 03Post it the same day you write it.
You already know if this is the one. Go put a date on it.
Date it in the app