Hello everyone! How have you been? Today it was a cold rainy day. I spent it catching up with delayed work, mostly e-mails and trying to heal the most agonizing pain on my knees. For the past ours I was also exchanging some e-mails with pen pals about "pursuing already sent letters" and this is a most common and worrying thread than I imagined.

I know I'm always mentioning how all snail mailers hate when letters get lost, or when there's a not so great pen pal who never replies. But there's also another thing that's a constant subject around snail mail communities; one I personally also struggle with myself. Every time I spend time preparing and sending a letter, postcard or parcel for a pen pal, I'm obviously always expecting for it to reach its destination safe and sound, but unfortunately not always things turn out as we expect. Anyways, I believe I all feel the same about things we wrote and crafted to send to another being, we want to know they'll be safe. 

More and more I see people around social media almost pursuing their pen pals, asking for letters and postcard arrivals, as I see people sometimes complaining about the supposed stalkers. I must admit I find it a bit offensive to see the whole thing as a "stalking situatuion", it just means that people actually care about what they're doing and sharing with the world. And I'm also speaking against me, because whenever I'm in between cities I tend to take some time to let my pen pals know if my letter arrived or not, but I make my best effort (even if I have to use a stupid post-it) to keep track of my mail, and to help others keep track of theirs. I feel really mad about noticing the lack of sense and common comprehension among people, especially when the solution seems so simple that makes me wonder if this post is even worth my time.

We already spend to many hours on Facebook away from the ones we are close too, do we really want to spend hours pulling ourselves away from those we are still meeting? I encourage all of you to always leave an e-mail, a facebook/instagram message to your snail mail friends, letting them know you've got their letters. It's not complicated and it'll only increase each others respect and consideration, as another brick to build a strong bridge between you and your pen pal.