Have you ever had a snail mail penpal?

I had a penpal when I was in grade school. She was a friend of my nanny and was curious about life in the city because she lived in the far-flung countryside. It did not go for long and I don't know what stopped our correspondence.

hi porcospino! yeah! when i as in high school i remember having a penpal, actually i have two pen pals that time, one is from my on country but from a different region and the other one is from other country, if I remember it right she's from Germany. the one from my country, i found her in a song magazine and i just rote to her for a try, i am very glad when she replied to my letter and we exchanged pictures. its just sad that we lose contacts after, but our exchange of letters lasts for almost a year i think. the one from other country, its my grandmother who gave her address to me and she asked me to wrote to the girl and i do, we have fun exchanging letters and sending pictures and news about our own countries, but just like my other pen friend, for some reasons we lose contacts, maybe we just become both busy with our studies. by the way, i also got a chance being a pen friend to the daughter of my grandmother's employer in HongKong. its fun and exciting to receive letters from those people that I just come to know through letters because, even if e just talk through mails, i can still feel their sincerity and found a friend on them.

I had a penpal in my school days. it was a school project. Since then, I have never had a penpal snail mail or otherwise. It would be nice to have one though. sometimes we all need someone to share our thoughts with.

Hello Porcospino, Yes, when I was little I use to have penpals. One was my dad vendor daughter from gremany. When we hit teenage years she came over for a visit and the following year I visted her family in Germany. At that time it was West Germany but now since the Berlin Wall has fallen it all Germany again. I also had local penpals I use to write too but we lost touch or they moved or I went to college etc. I am in 40 now and miss those days of writing. Remeber when stamps were like a .25 a piece. Thanks and Have a great day Sincerley Unique16

I did. Twice actually, when I was taking spanish I had one. We stayed in touch for about a year and a half, then i got two letters back saying that she had moved and that there was not a forwarding address. I thought about her for a while. hoped that nothing was wrong, and then moved on. I had one for a year in fifth grade. We had penpals with another fifth grade class that was in another state. It was all part of a class assignment. my pen pal was not very responsive.

Hi Porcospino! Oh yeah! i had plenty of snail mail penpal when i was on my High School and some of them til i was in College. We exchange photos but was able to met 1 of them only. We were like writing for about 4years. Some of them courted me, but that time i dont believe in long distance relationship. It was nice writing someone, it has a personal touch. I still do send letters to some of my close friend especially during christmas time especially those that are far from thier family and is working abroad.

wow. i really like the way you think and your outlook with penpal. although i never had one but i guess it is more exciting and sincere rather than pure chatting..

Yes, i remember i have when i was in my high school and college days..now technology made it easy thru email and chat, unlike before but it is more personalize cause it was handwritten

Wow, it was a long time ago since I have a penpal. Back then, I wasn't really into writing letters, so after a few correspondence, I have stopped writing to them. Like yourself, I found them through some magazines.