Once upon a time, writing a letter was simply how we kept in touch. Then came email. Then texts. Then messages that disappear almost as quickly as they arrive.
Someone has taken the time to sit down, put pen to paper and write to you. It says, quite simply:
A handwritten letter is personal in a way that a quick message on a screen rarely is.
You can keep it. Read it again. Find it years later in a drawer and suddenly be transported back to another time, another place, another friendship.
And you don’t have to be a great writer. Just be yourself. Tell someone about your day, the weather, your garden, your travels, the book you’re reading — or absolutely nothing very important at all.
Letter in the Post is a Pen Pal Club for adults who enjoy the pleasure of real letters and would like to make new friends around the world.
You choose who you’d like to write to.
You choose who you’d like to write to from our international members’ list, then the rest is up to you.
Just two people, two pens and a little patience.
And somewhere between those first letters, a friendship might begin.
We’re not trying to change the world.
Our aim is simple: to bring people together through the old-fashioned art of letter writing.
Our members come from different countries, generations and backgrounds. Some have been writing letters all their lives. Others have rediscovered the pleasure after many years away from it. Some write several letters. Some write just one.
For someone who feels lonely, isolated or simply a little disconnected from the world, receiving a real letter through the post can mean an enormous amount.
Tell your neighbour.
Tell the person who still keeps a fountain pen in the drawer.
The more people who join us, the more interesting our little corner of the world becomes.
We’d quite like to become magpies of the letter-writing world — collecting together people who still believe that a piece of paper travelling across the world can be something rather special.
And every time a letter drops through a letterbox, we get a tiny reminder that the old-fashioned things aren’t necessarily the bad things.
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