“Say… let’s go over to Grandmas, and I’ll show you a phone that’s attached to the wall! It has a curly cord, and rotary dial… that’s this weird thing you would stick your fingers in and spin to make it work! She also has this thing called a Princess Phone! I’m tellin’ ya, it’s like the Smithsonian over there!”
The cost of stamps may be putting a damper on frequent use of snail mail, especially since email gets there more quickly and it’s easy to add pictures.
I miss letter writing. These days it’s hard to strike up a correspondence, as no one is really interested in that sort of thing, but I love getting a letter. My niece and I used to write back and forth when she was younger, but now she is grown and living her life. I do correspond with an old friend via email, which is nice, but still, not quite the same.
Homerville Premium Member 4 months ago
Don’t forget to tell about “airmail”.
MeanBob Premium Member 4 months ago
Except they can’t read it because it’s in cursive.
blunebottle 4 months ago
And we had PEN PALS!
Walrus Gumbo Premium Member 4 months ago
I couldn’t read it at night, so I invented fire!
The Orange Mailman 4 months ago
2010 copyright too. Ugh!
Dobie Premium Member 4 months ago
“Say… let’s go over to Grandmas, and I’ll show you a phone that’s attached to the wall! It has a curly cord, and rotary dial… that’s this weird thing you would stick your fingers in and spin to make it work! She also has this thing called a Princess Phone! I’m tellin’ ya, it’s like the Smithsonian over there!”
Kimmies01 4 months ago
Aww, no Bleeb today.
Kornfield Kounty 4 months ago
Does anybody remember receiving and sending ‘chain letters’ ?!?!?
jbduncan 4 months ago
Remember those birthday cards from Grandma with a dollar inside!
MRBLUESKY529 4 months ago
And we had to wait days for a response. Wait, that’s often true with e-mail and texts.
dbrucepm 4 months ago
Like I tell the young guys at work, my letters were carved in stone tablets
fgerbil46 4 months ago
Flag’s on the wrong end and the wrong side and it’s the wrong color. (Okay! I’m a mailman! I see these things!)
Zebrastripes 4 months ago
Oooooh I’m so excited…..☺️
Zebrastripes 4 months ago
These last generations don’t even know how to write in cursive. What a travesty!
Instead of a complete education, Common Core is dumbing down America!
Doug K 4 months ago
And what is e-mail?
chromosome Premium Member 4 months ago
The cost of stamps may be putting a damper on frequent use of snail mail, especially since email gets there more quickly and it’s easy to add pictures.
Kornfield Kounty 4 months ago
And, the mailbox number is 24-7 AWESOME!
bbbmorrell 4 months ago
See kids, this is an email. Back in my day, we didn’t have texting
AtariDragon 4 months ago
And long distance calls were really expensive, so we kept them to 30 seconds or less.
Bob Blumenfeld 4 months ago
And the stuff it’s written on is called “paper.”
skyriderwest 4 months ago
Actually, e-mail recently had its 50th anniversary. It’s been around since the early 70’s, and existed long before the “Internet”.
MuddyUSA Premium Member 4 months ago
They are not impressed…..
ncorgbl 4 months ago
♫ ’I gave a letter to Gmail
It showed up as ‘sent’
Bright early next morning
mailer daemon brought my letter back
(they wrote upon it)
Return to sender, address unknown, No such number, no such zone
mail Delivery Failure, mail Delivery Subsy
We had a quarrel, a lover’s spat
I write I’m sorry, but my letter keeps coming back’ ♪
Apologies to Elvis.
davewhamond creator 4 months ago
♫ We just got a letter! ♫ We just got a letter! ♫ ♫
Impkins Premium Member 4 months ago
Bleeb! Send me a postcard! :)
wildlandwaters 4 months ago
handwritten, no less, with a tool we called a “pen”!
cuzinron47 4 months ago
Sorry you had it so rough back then.
EMGULS79 4 months ago
And stamps were only 5 or 6 cents.
Chris Sherlock 4 months ago
There was a time not so long ago when our phones weren’t smart.
klingon131 4 months ago
No one sends email anymore, either.
Buoy 4 months ago
I miss letter writing. These days it’s hard to strike up a correspondence, as no one is really interested in that sort of thing, but I love getting a letter. My niece and I used to write back and forth when she was younger, but now she is grown and living her life. I do correspond with an old friend via email, which is nice, but still, not quite the same.
Moonkey Premium Member 4 months ago
They don’t have a clue and don’t care.
drtodd12 4 months ago
“See kids, this a PHONE, it’s attached to the WALL!”
sincavage05 4 months ago
This is what we did before they invented keyboards and touch screens.
geese28 4 months ago
Ancient text messages
Dapperdan61 Premium Member 4 months ago
At 73 cents a stamp now I can see why no one writes anymore
egadi'mnotclad 4 months ago
Now any random person can try to scam, stalk, insult or whatever to you.
mbrahms26 4 months ago
And we were graded for PENMANSHIP in school!