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Mail Mail Mail and It's ALL Junk!
Apr 30, 2007 | 7:40 AM
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I love email.  I enjoy my blog and reading your comments but nothing beats a good old fashioned letter.  Too bad, I never get those anymore!!

 

These days, it's all junk or bills.  Now the junk is better than the bills but day after day, I wait for a nice letter.  Heck even a post card!  But nobody writes anymore!

 

Part of my empty mailbox is my fault because I have repeatedly told my friends and family not to bother sending a birthday or Christmas card if you're just going to sign it and drop it in the mail - I mean, what's the point of that?  I don't care what the Hallmark or Shoebox  people want to say and I know what your signature looks like!  I want to hear from you!

 

I truly miss getting letters.  My wife and started our relationship mostly through the mail while she was travelling abroad and sending letters back and forth to "keep the fires burning" as they say.  So perhaps that explains my love of "snail mail".

 

Maybe I'll write myself a letter!

 

What about you?  Do you write letters anymore?   Or do you hate so-called snail mail?


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wfbdoglover read my blog view my photos
Apr 30, 2007 | 8:39 AM

I have a friend that just moved this school year to South Carolina. We made a pack to write letters back and forth to each other... It is nice to get them in the mail!
witiwebprod1 read my blog view my photos
Apr 30, 2007 | 8:56 AM

If you really like receiving mail...check out postcrossing.com! It's a really neat way to send and receive mail from all over the world. I bet your kids would get a real kick out of it, too!

I've been postcrossing for a year now and have rec'd postcards from Japan, Australia, Antarctica, Brazil, Finland, China and many more!
jgravelle read my blog view my photos
Apr 30, 2007 | 8:59 AM

Feeling nostalgic, are ya?

Why not have it delivered by a guy on a horse galloping reeeeeeally fast?

Ooh, you could send yourself a telegraph message too! The delivery kid will sing it to ya for like... a nickel.

Better yet... send yourself a scroll. And have it read out loud by the town crier:

"Hear ye! Hear ye! How art I? Verily!"

Wait, I know. Start a fire using lots of green brush. Wave a blanket to send patterns of smoke up into the sky.

No, tie a note to a pigeon... or... or paint a cave wall... or--

I apologize. I stepped waaaaay over the facetiousness threshold here. If it wasn't so much trouble to backspace, I'd delete my entire reply...


-jjg
Katbird read my blog view my photos
Apr 30, 2007 | 9:27 AM

ROFL!!! Jg, you are an intelligent nutcase.
I like you!!

Rob, I honestly don't think I've ever written a letter. I've sent a postcard or two. I'm a phone person. I find it much easier to talk directly to someone and get an immediate answer.
I really don't email either.
Maybe I just like talking.
fanningp read my blog view my photos
Apr 30, 2007 | 2:50 PM

I used to (and now am back into) writing my ex-wife (who I'm reconciling with) love letters. Sometimes I've mailed them, sometimes I've just hand delivered them.
wfbdoglover read my blog view my photos
Apr 30, 2007 | 4:00 PM

Fanningp, you remind me of John Cusak - Now, even more......
prettyinpinks read my blog view my photos
Apr 30, 2007 | 5:18 PM

Rob I'd definetely write to more people, but the problem is that they don't write back.

I had a friend that I'd known since we were 6 months old that moved to Boston in 6th grade. I wrote to her maybe three times, she wrote back once. That was over the course of a year. It's hard not to get discouraged.

And JGravelle, I just burst out laughing after reading your comment. Keep it up : )
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Rob_Haswell

FOX 6 Meteorologist =========================
Rob is an AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and also holds the National Weather Association Seal of Approval as well as the Endorsement of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. =========================
A long, long, time ago in a farmers field far, far away, Rob noticed a change in the wind and became fascinated with the weather. Why you ask? (Pause for you to say "why?") Well, it was at that moment he realized he was downwind of the manure pile on the turkey farm where he grew up! After that he watched the weather very carefully in an effort to save his sense of smell! Okay, that's not entirely true but I did grow up on a turkey farm and I have been fascinated with weather and broadcasting for quite some time. I began my career in radio before making the jump to TV. I worked on Good Morning Toronto. After that, I decided to pursue my dream of living and working in the U.S. and joined Wake Up Rochester in Rochester NY. I spent three years in "Bills Country" before coming to my senses and moving to "Packer-Town!" (GO PACK!) I also spent some time trying to make it big as a comic actor and studied the art of improvisation at Toronto's Second City Theatre with teachers like SCTV's Joe Flaherty! I moved here with my beautiful wife, Tanya, who's the real comedian in the family, my son Noah, who's giving my wife a run for the title of funniest Haswell and my daughter Nyla who is the cutest 2 feet of human being you could ever meet! We're very excited to be living in the great city of Milwaukee and we're looking forward to learning all there is to know about Wisconsin! By the way, where do you buy those cheesehead hats anyway?

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