Love Notes Received and Sent on the First day of P.O. Box No. XOXO

~ #poboxoxo

The Touch of Handwritten Note

When I asked people how they feel about receiving handwritten notes, cards, letters et al; these were a few responses: 

• A letter is always more beautiful. It makes me feel more special. Because a pen is an extension of your hand. It has the sense of 'touch' (one of the 5 basic senses) involved in it. It is not mechanical, it takes effort. It does not come with an undo button, so it takes thought too. That makes it more genuine. And mankind, for all its genius, is still a sucker for genuinity. If a girl writes me a letter, even better.

• I feel that the person who has written it has genuine feelings towards me to put in that effort to sit and write a letter or note to me its an informal way of showing love and care. Mail etc. becomes too formal and professional but letters show the emotional attachment towards that person.

• When I get a personal text message I feel happy. It brightens up a period of my day. OH an I love e-mails. One day of reading and re-reading. But a letter is something else. I love it when I come home and see it on the small pike of mail. There's something about opening the enveloping and smelling it and feeling the ink on the paper and sensing the scrawl. It's stupid but I go into a trance. A letter can keep me occupied for a long long time.

• It would be really great if someone in today's tech era did that. It makes you wonder how fast the traditional way has vanished. I think it will feel really personal and there is a lot that you can make out from one's handwriting.

• Receiving a hand written letter/card etc. seems more appealing. It can tell the exact feelings of the sender while he/she was writing that letter or card. Plus it signifies how much the sender values you when he/she puts all the effort thinking and writing each word by hand. Hand written letters /cards/notes, for me, are like priceless collectables. I've given many to some special ppl n also received some from others as well. Emails or text on the other hand don't have that much impact as compared to handwritten things.

• I believe that emotion is directly linked to the difficulty in performing a task and the degree of customization . In case of a personal handwritten letter, both these factors kick in for me. If the purpose if solely to communicate formal information either of the two is indifferent on an emotional level while the former method (writing e-mails) seems to save time.

• I'm a traditional girl. I prefer ink on paper. A cute little greeting card with pink flowers painted on the corners, a tiny note scribbled on a tiny piece of paper in their own handwriting, It feels more personal, makes me feel treasured. Makes me feel important enough for that person to spend so some time making a card or writing a note themselves when they could've just dropped in an email or a text.

• I always like the touch and feel factor that paper letters/cards give. They are more memorable and feel more personalized. It actually feels like somebody made that effort to write something on paper. And sometimes when you randomly find these old papers like maybe hand written chits or something, they make you feel happy

• Handwritten is more personal and gives a feeling of belongingness. You would want to preserve the letter or so for remembrance.

• It would feel great if someone will send me a card , a letter, or a note as it will show his love towards me. Like his/her words will express what he /she is thinking me. Show his/her affection towards me.

~ #poboxoxo

The rustic old world charm of writing letters – A simple pleasure of life

In the days of cell phones, email, and text messages, letter writing can seem hopelessly outdated. But it’s an art worth bringing back but it is not because of some misplaced sense of nostalgia. The writing and reception of letters will always offer an experience that modern technology cannot touch. While the 21st century iPad totting urban techie may ask "What's the point of discussing the benefits of writing a letter by hand anyways?"; a handwritten letter has a certain charm that electronic communication cannot replace.

Handwritten expressions will tell you how amazingly surreal it feels to pull out an old rustic letter sent by a loved one.

Writing a letter is one of the simple pleasures of life that we have overlooked and sidelined as technology and innovation has paved the way for forms of communication that are very cold, as compared to the warm feeling of a handwritten letter or note.

When it comes to sharing one’s true thoughts, sincere sympathies, ardent love, and deepest gratitude, words travelling along an invisible superhighway will never suffice. Why?

Because writing and sending a letter is the next best thing to showing up personally at someone’s door.

 Ink from your pen touches the stationary, your fingers touch the paper, your saliva seals the envelope. Something tangible from your world travels through machines and hands, and deposits itself in another’s mailbox. Your letter is then carried inside as an invited guest. The paper that was sitting on your desk, now sits on another’s. The recipient handles the paper that you handled. Letters create a connection that modern, impersonal forms of communication will never approach. The act of writing by hand is a mentally exclusive activity.

Now is the time to strike up a correspondence with your friends and lovers. I do not know a single person whose countenance does not light up at the sight of a real letter in their mailbox.

So many of us, myself included, look forward to getting the mail each day, even though the majority of the time it’s simply a pile of catalogs and bills. The desire for real correspondence clearly hasn’t left us. But if you want a letter, you have to send a letter. It’s up to you take the initiative and begin the circle of communication.

~ #poboxoxo