Snail Mail

Post offices have been around for centuries. A useful form of communication that has unfortunately become obsolete. With the modern age of technology, e-mails have simply replaced the post office, stamps and waiting period. Even more recently, the boom of smart phones have rendered the once almighty form of communication between nations to the pits. A walk through Hong Kong today, it's hard to miss whether it be on the bus, MTR, grocery shopping - people are simply attached texting away or the hip thing "What's App" people.

Urban life today has lost its joy of when someone receives mail in their letterbox. My first encounters with snail mail were perhaps like any other child's of the 90s - mailing to Santa. I remember it was a class thing we had to do, but it was that very address we would put back that I distinctively recall,

SANTA CLAUS
NORTH POLE
H0H 0H0
CANADA

A few weeks later, all of us in the class wold receive back in the mail, kind regards from this jolly fellow in the red suit. It was the excitement that accompanied any mail that I've received. More recently, I would say snail mail from friends back home is also exciting. It's perhaps just as CH described it a couple weeks back when I drafted this post; they actually took the effort to write it.

The youthful generation has lost this great wonder of sending and receiving mail resorting to more convenient forms of communications. As much as those do serve a more efficient purpose why render something that has stuck with us for so many centuries in the back of the line? Not at all am I being cynical, people simply haven't been exposed sufficiently to appreciate the system.

Snail mail: It may be slow, but it's totally worth paying for that stamp.