Do you like snail mail? This amazing feeling to get something real from far away… Maybe it’s a note from your family, or from your good friends who you have never met before in real, or few words from a complete stranger…

Isn’t it amazing to have something real instead of few data bytes on your laptop?.. Maybe it’s just a postcard containing few words of greetings, not telling you much about that person’s life but… This feeling when you get it.. You can feel that person, feel that he’s real, see his handwriting…recognize his character in every letter he had written..Even it’s just a small postcard…

Every time I feel so amazed how that’s possible…This small piece of paper had travelled such a distance and carried me a part of another person…In this century of high technologies I still have this chance to bring something real to long-distance friendships…When I receive a new card or a letter my first thought is “oh my God, he was holding it, he was writing these letters, he made such efforts to make it possible…this card/letter had travelled so far to make me have a piece of him..”

It doesn’t matter how much you know the person on-line or in real life, when you receive a card or a letter it’s completely different. All these on-line services made it easier to communicate with anyone around the world, but we lose this intimacy that only real meeting can give…And snail mail brings us closer to each other. Maybe it sounds weird and unusual, especially according to the modern hi-tech standards of living… but still I do believe that snail mail is one of the best things for long-distance relationships.

I know that most people say that it requires a lot of fantasy, patience and good handwriting, but as for me nothing of these really matters, as I said..well, sure the words matter..but what matters most is the effort. I don’t really care whether I will receive a part of your shopping list or a drawing you made when you were 2. To have a piece of you that I can keep as a memory is more than enough.