Has all the mystery gone? At the PO, we are most likely to end up with a printed docket glued onto the mail item unless one requests a real stamp. In the future, where will they find any correspondence or love letters etc to research, photos the same. And enquiry looks into other sources now. And, I decided, people are not meant to walk anywhere in those cities.
I pity young people today who have lost the ability to write letters, when I was 14 until well into my late twenties I wrote letters all the time to friends and sweethearts, well you had no option if you wanted to stay in touch (particularly if like me you can't abide talking on the phone). There was nothing quite as enjoyable as receiving hand written mail from from friends and family, my mother's the only one I know who bothers to write letters these days.
When I was 15 I had a girl in a town eighty miles away and we sent each other letters pretty much every other day, you could post a letter at 5pm and she'd have it on her breakfast table the next morning.
Now why would you bother? Just sms in txtspk or email pictures of your genitals and that seems to be the height of romance today, God help us all.
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