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When's the last time you mailed a letter

DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
You know, a physical piece of paper with a message for someone that you put in an envelope and slap a stamp on it and drop it in a mailbox

I got some postcards recently and I realized that I think it's been a couple years since I mailed anything that wasn't a bill.

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Like 2018?

  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Earlier today. Bills count right?

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Earlier today. Bills count right?

    They absolutely do not. A bill is a bill.

  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    I am in a long distance relationship.

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Do you count mailing a Magic card to a friend alongside a note that says "You stink" as mailing a letter?

  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    i would qualify that as a letter, even if short

    it wasn't necessary, it was an extra piece of effort you put in, a little sign that you were thinking of someone

    and how they stink

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Which card was it?

  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    My partner and I used to write each other letters a lot before I moved up to the same state as them so, 2022

  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Uriel wrote: »
    Which card was it?

    Showcase Graaz.

  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    Care package count?
    Absentee ballot request/absentee ballot?

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    I mailed save the dates earlier this year, those sort of count

    I've sent the occasional card I think, or letters written and included in packages that I've sent as gifts

    If we're going strictly letter though, that's probably nearly a decade ago, I was in a messy-ish relationship-ish thing with a person a couple states away and we'd send each other letters (in addition to other methods of communication, it was just a nice additional thing)

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Few weeks ago, but it was to my former landlord

  • TynnanTynnan seldom correct, never unsure Registered User regular
    About ten minutes ago

  • NarbusNarbus Registered User regular
    Two weeks ago

    I dropped off social media entirely, so I keep a list of friends who don't live near me anymore and send out postcards everytime I travel

    It's been nice! Turns out postcards are great!

  • PsykomaPsykoma Registered User regular
    I mail letters every christmas, but that's about it unless something legal comes up

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    I mass mail

    DO YOU LIKE ME
    YES [ ]
    NO [ ]

    with a paid return envelope at least three times a quarter.

  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    Two years ago? I think?

    It was a sad letter, so I don't like to think about it much.

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Monday or Tuesday

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  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Using collecting addresses for save the dates as an opportunity to get back in the habit of sending Christmas cards and the like.

    But for work purposes Im mailing stuff all the time, but don’t think that’s in the spirit of it.

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  • SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    Two days ago, but it was a funeral card I posted for my mother who is currently stuck in her house because of a broken hip.
    Before that, I regularly posted stuff from my previous job which ended in July 2023. Not a ton, but maybe 3 things a week or so, there's a few government forms that are still mail only.

    For me, for myself, I have a vague recollection of searching for a mailbox during the initial covid lockdown and realizing the 2 closest to my house had been moved. I can't recall what I'd be mailing though.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    god I don't remember the last time I sent someone a letter

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    A full letter, honestly probably not since high school. By university everyone had an email address and I would send long, "hilarious" missives to my friends digitally instead.

    But my partner and I mail goofy postcards back and forth intermittently as kind of a care gesture (we live about 5 miles apart). Last one I sent was probably about 2 months ago though, so I'm about due.

  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    If we're not counting bills or shit like that... twelve years, maybe?

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    I sent a pal a sketchbook last year or something like that but it never made it. :(

  • DouglasDouglas PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Wow, I have no idea, probably before 2001

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Outside of work never in my life probably

  • pookapooka Registered User regular
    One of our delights is sending the youngers in our family goofy birthday cards, and the occasional adult, so .. last month. An actual handwritten or typed letter on its lonesome? Mm, 2004, probably. Those will sometimes go in with a care package, though.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    My dad's birthday card went out yesterday.

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Three weeks ago. I send letters pretty regularly to people letting them know why they're not allowed back in the library and for how long. I even sign them, which is a neat feature since I'm the only person with my last name in the entire state and my address is publicly available on the county assessor website!

    Also, the business office made it a real pain in the ass to buy new stamps, so I've been working my way through several sheets of these we bought years ago for a now-defunct library penpal program:
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    "Heart eyes emoji! You're banned from the system for life because you sicced your pit bull on someone in the parking lot. Love ya!"

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Does sending letters via our work system that entails sending them electronically to a service that prints and mails them out on my behalf count?

    Because if so, probably a few months back

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  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Three weeks ago. I send letters pretty regularly to people letting them know why they're not allowed back in the library and for how long. I even sign them, which is a neat feature since I'm the only person with my last name in the entire state and my address is publicly available on the county assessor website!

    Also, the business office made it a real pain in the ass to buy new stamps, so I've been working my way through several sheets of these we bought years ago for a now-defunct library penpal program:
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    "Heart eyes emoji! You're banned from the system for life because you sicced your pit bull on someone in the parking lot. Love ya!"

    Wait, your home address is publicly listed?

    I am in the business of saving lives.
  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Is yours not? In every state I've lived in, you can find out who owns a house by searching their name on the county assessor site. Renters don't show up, but owners definitely do.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Check it out, Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips lives like four blocks from me, you can go look at his house if you want and it's exactly what you'd expect.

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    Phone book logic gets weird if you plug it into the internet, it turns out, and nobody's prepared to change it.

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    What the fuck is a Flaming Lips? Do you need help dealing with this guy?

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    does a post card count? if so, last year.

    if not? I have no idea

  • ZekZek Registered User regular
    I think maybe the only personal letters I've sent in my whole life have been thank you letters my mom made me send after Christmas.

  • SCREECH OF THE FARGSCREECH OF THE FARG #1 PARROTHEAD margaritavilleRegistered User regular
    never. i've also never churned butter or stitched up a hole in pa's apron while he salts the pork in the smokehouse

  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    I lied I actually sent several documents by mail this year as part of buying my new house.

  • reVersereVerse Attack and Dethrone God Registered User regular
    I was living in another town at the time, so based on when I moved out of there I'd say probably 15+ years.

  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Maybe 2014. I used to write letters semi-regularly to my gran. But she died in 2014. Classic grandparent move.

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