I am yet to register with the post office. However, that has not affected my appreciation for letters; handwritten letters especially. So, in place of the post office, I used alternative means.
On the first day of May, the Facebook page for Random Despatches was created. I created a teaser for it for my WhatsApp contacts on my status. I asked my viewers to find the new baby of Random Despatches on that very same day. I promised to write the first person to find it a letter by hand. Shortly afterwards, a subscriber who is a cheerleader of some sort figured the page out and was the first to react. (For considerable reasons the person’s name is withheld.) I announced that someone found out the baby and I declared my commitment to write the letter. I never wanted it to delay for too long, so I declined using the post office. Instead, I ended up delivering the letter by hand a week after. Perhaps the post office may have been faster, even though the previous experiences I’ve had denies such assumption. Letters delivered by hand don’t evoke heartfelt responses as those delivered not by the hands which wrote the letters. Nonetheless, I am not despaired; for the recipient confessed a deep appreciation for hand written letters.
Before the week ran out, I got to despatch two more handwritten letters. One was to a friend. And the other to a customer of Random Despatches Sales, who is also a friend.
I delivered the first letter by hand. And the second via waybill: it was sealed in the parcel of the order.
Of all three letters, the one which felt a bit more beautiful was the one which was despatched via waybill. Handwritten letters delivered to the recipient by the writer just doesn’t evoke the kind of reaction letters are meant to evoke. However, all recipients appreciated having to read handwritten letters after a long while.
I got a response from all three recipients. Unlike the two others, the third recipient chose to reply in writing with ink via the post office. I can’t wait to tell you about that in subsequent despatches.
Wait for it!
Read the preceding parts of the “At the Post Office” series:
At the Post Office 1: Read
At the Post Office 2: Read
At the Post Office 3: Read
At the Post Office 4: Read
At the Post Office 5: Read
I got this from a book I enjoyed reading in the week: "Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget”. Read the review here: READ
Letters serve the same purposes too.
Have great weekend, Fellow. And stay hopeful!