Does anyone write letters anymore?

hi tim! at this day and age... yes, handwritten letters will become obsolete fast as more and more youngsters and adults alike rely on technology that makes writing tasks more efficient and produce faster results. i think city dwellers will do less and less handwritten letters. but in more rural areas where technology hasn't reached its full blast, i think there would still be more handwritten letters being exchanged. my sister's boss is a very dedicated letter writer (handwritten) and does about 20-50 letters a day to the nuns, priests, seminarians, friends and family. she's really amazing. it's her passion and hobby. in my family, my mom still writes a few letters every now and then. my eldest sister does the same. although we do more on emails, we still do cards and attach letters to it on important occasions. i can't remember the last time i really write a long letter (handwritten) to anyone outside of the family. hehehe although i am like the post-it girl who likes leaving short messages to people (family, friends, and associates).

Much of my correspondence is business related which is not sent hand-written. I email with friends and family but there are times where a letter is most effective.

95% of my friends are online friends so I use emails. Like you my handwriting is really bad.Before I was online I would write my nephew. I wrote him a letter and he seemed to like it so I kept it up. But now I email him.

Him Timhinyy. Yes. I still write letters. I currently live in a different country than the rest of my family and I've gotten into the habit of writing them each about once per month. The development of email is great however, to me, it's "cold". When I write I think it adds a more personal touch, you know? Sometimes I'll spray the paper with something that smells good, a perfume or something. I'll send little "goodies" in the letters too. Things that aren't too heavy or bulky. My parents really seem to enjoy getting the handwritten letters for the same reason that I like to write them. Not only for the personal touch, but it also keeps my writing skills sharp. Too much typing and my penmanship will go downhill! lol. I think writing by hand is becoming a dying form much as the ancient scribes carved things into stone. It's a shame really. I will send ecards for the major holidays such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc. but I also send handwritten ones. I mostly send the ecards just in case my handwritten ones don't reach their destination in time. Especially around the holidays, things have a tendency to get "misplaced" by the postal service! lol.

very rarely! maybe once-twice per year, which is really nothing, but the most of my "letters" are in e-format, emails :) sometimes I really feel the need to write a letter and send it to my relatives, just to make them feel happy and important, because one letter, one real letter can really makes someone who receive it feels the happiest person on Earth, because the letter, written by the hand and the pen, contains something more than just a message like the emails or the txt messages that we send from computer and mobile phones. it contains love, feelings and something special that the other two don't- it contains personality!

To be quite honest after the internet has made it way into my life I do not think I can really recollect when was the last time I really wrote a letter but I sure do get letter from my daughter who studies in a hostel and wait like hell for it to arrive. Her school do not allow them to use the internet for emailing and they are supposed to write a letter every week. I would like to admit that a letter does have that personal touch but I do not think an email will ever have that.

I still write letters, mainly to my family. Many of them do not have a computer, and letters are a lifeline to them

Handwritten letters are obsolete. We all need to admit that. Technology has its benefits and the biggest thing about Internet is that it gave a far better alternative to all media of remote communication and social interaction. It created a peaceful revolution that almost everybody embraced. There is still something valuable in writing letters but the advantage of sending an email surpasses all advantages handwritten communication could provide. Many things that were popular 50 years ago have been obsolete since the quick development in technology started: imagine still listening a tape or watching a mute film in black and white!

As far as I am concerned, I think I seldon use the letters now. I just use my computer or cell phone to communicate with my family or my friends. I think this is very conveniet for us .For the letters, I think several years ago, I may use the letters to communicate with others.

Sometimes I do, it's a better way for me to express myself with calligraphy, to make it more personal on special occasions, I've taken lessons of calligraphy for Japanese when I was younger, and I can use what I know for roman letters too, but I really prefer Japanese because I find it more expressive with the kanji symbols, you can actually see what it is in a simplified image for example this character ???, you can see in it 3 trees one near another and it means forest, so when combined with calligraphy it really is an art form, and of course I write mails with the paint brush not normal pencil. But of course I use email for normal stuff...

I don't write letters anymore because i used to receive and send mails through emails or electronic mail. But i'd like to have one. It's been a long time since i receive a letter, i mean a real letter that is written on a paper. [laugh] But seriously, i appreciate people who still write letter/s on a paper.

Not frequently. Last time, I wrote a letter for my parents to talk some personl life. But if I want to have a try, I always thought my letters were not good enough. I would like to take more exersise and post some cards to strangeers in a posting website.

I have several years didn't write letters. When i was a freshmen,i written letters every week to my high school classmates.And then ,we all had email box.So,we communicated with each other by sending email.Later,we all had cellphone.we sent text message using cellphone. By the way ,my handwriting is not good too.LOL...

Last year I wrote a letter to my boyfriend.That's the first time I wrote love letter and he was very happy. It's a big surprise I gave him as his birthday present.I suggest that all of us can do such thing in a specail day.My dad told me that he used to wrote amatory poems to my mom when they have dates.I think it's also a good way to attract girls in nowadays.Do you wanna try it? Maybe you can get some surprise.lol!

hi friend !! strictly speaking ,handwrite letters are obsolete nowadays.with latest technology ,even one can use internet in mobile phones to get connected with his near and dear within seconds.I was writing letters to my parents while i was in school 15 years ago.But nowadays my cell phone is doing all the job.Anyways,thanx for sharing.

I dont really anymore (I used to alot when I was younger) because email and cyber chats are cheaper (free!!!), easier (dont have to go anywhere and typing flows easier than writing and you dont have to worry aout handwriting neatness), faster (zip and its gone already in the person's inbox). Only problem is I find that it's making people lose their obs because as th post dwindles as does the need for postal workers. Post cards are great too, but I usually buy thema nd hand deliver them to avoid cost and work while Im travelling or vacationing,.