Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.
One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.
I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
I get a lot of letters from people.
Alongside my 'no email' policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too.
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.
The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and, for security reasons, I can only respond with a headshot and 'Dear so and so, be good. WM.' It never feels like enough.