22nd Feb 2005
Tuesday Is Viewer Mail Day
Got the mail today on my way in. Imagine my surprise to find, among the junk and bills and scary stuff from the IRS, a letter from a friend. An honest to goodness paper letter. A card no less. In fact, a schmaltzy “Thank You” card. I’m all misty eyed just thinking about it. Thanking me for putting him up at my pad last weekend, part of a three-guy college buddy weekend (the other guy’s card must still be in the mail).
Then imagine my even greater surprise to find another letter from a different friend in the mailbox the same day. Ask yourself, when’s the last time you got two letters from friends on the same day? I don’t think I’ve gotten even one in months, if not years.
Most incredibly, what did I promptly do? I wrote them both back nice cards myself. Signed, sealed, stamped and on my kitchen table ready to be dropped off at the mailbox on my way to work tomorrow morning.
The beautiful part is my average response time for email sent to my personal address is somewhere between four weeks and never since taking the new job. As I told a friend the other night, I come home at the end of the day and want to do nothing more than drink half a bottle of wine and watch Law & Order reruns. Last thing I want to do is read more email, seeing as I’m similarly about two weeks behind in my work email as it is.
Maybe they realized that, and that’s why they opted for paper.
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