When's the last time you hand wrote a letter? in cursive?

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I haven't hand written a letter in years.

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In e-mail age, still nothing like a handwritten letter


CNN) -- E-mail is quick. Texting is convenient. Facebook has photos, videos and games.

But for all the fancy, multimedia modes of communication out there, nothing beats the thrill of opening the mailbox and finding a personal letter, written and addressed just to you.

"Snail mail" has been under attack for the past several decades, with the U.S. Postal Service reporting a drop of 10 billion letters in the past 20 years. Literally billions of e-mails and text messages are sent each day. And the Postal Service says that unless something changes very soon, it plans to stop Saturday mail delivery beginning next year.

The prospect of no longer receiving letters has many of us thinking about what makes them so special, remembering the most meaningful ones we ever received, and even vowing to send more letters to friends and family.

Samantha Nelson's boyfriend teaches English in South Korea. And since she was still a student at Florida State University when he left, she couldn't go with him. Now it's his monthly letters that make the pair feel connected.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/05/27/letters.irpt/index.html?hpt=C2