Snail-mail… Forgotten forever?

I always told my friends, “I prefer snail-mail to e-mail”, and there were for sure at least three amongst them who felt the same. Yet, though we are in touch, it’s through e-mail, not through snail-mail. Snail-mail is almost obsolete these days, barring certain official documents that do pop up sometimes.

Hmmm… Snail mail… Rings a bell? Nope? The postmaster would ring, those days! Snail mail: The general delivery mail, s-mail, surface mail – whatever term you’d like to use.

Oh, I do love e-mails. In this hectic life, e-mails are a lot easier, simpler. Hit the send button and your mail reaches your pal in a jiffy!  If there’s a really nice picture you loved, or a piece of info that you found useful, you can easily forward it to hundreds.

Yet, there are times when I get nostalgic… One of my friends used to write “Guess who?!” on the back of the envelope, trying in vain to disguise her neat handwriting. And I would retort, “Forget it, you dim-wit, you could type it or get it written from someone else, but I’d know, anyway!”

Ah, there are e-cards with lovely animations, lovely e-invitations too. As part of my quotidian custom, I preserve them, but their worth seem kind of subdued compared to the collection of my old greeting cards.

Sigh. I have to come out is. After all, one cannot be reminiscent forever. Also, it’s not fair blaming the innovations in technology, enjoying the benefits of the same!

Note: This post being just about letters, I’m excluding the webcam and other gadgets that add to the utility of e-mail.