The Letter Writing Revolution

Revitalizing a Lost Art One Letter at a Time



Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Strike Coming to an End?

There have been rumours and murmurings that this Canada Post strike may be over soon but not because they managed to come to an agreement. The postal workers are being ordered back to work. I suspect the mail service will still be slow. How can you expect unhappy employees to give 110% especially when they are being forced to return to their jobs?

I attended my brother's wedding this past weekend and they had a table set up for guests to write letters that they would open in the future. I wrote about this in my post Letters on a Wedding Day. I wrote three letters over the course of the evening to be opened 5-20 years from the wedding day. Sitting down and writing those letters reminded me of how much I LOVE to write letters. I have decided to get back into it, strike or no strike, and at least have some written for mailing when the opportunity presents itself again. My pile of letter writing supplies are literally collecting dust sitting unused on my kitchen table. I haven't put a stamp on an envelope in weeks and I haven't bothered to walk into the Post Office in days. There's no point. Mail isn't coming or going anywhere. Kind of sad, really.



I am hopeful, though, that this glitch in The Letter Writing Revolution will pass and soon my mailbox will be brimming with letters once again.

1 comment:

  1. Julie, I was excited to run across your blog. Are you on Facebook? I have a page there dedicated to letter writing: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.153122658093498.39326.153103881428709&saved#!/pages/The-Letter-Project/153103881428709 and I also have a blog called "The Letter Project": http://theletterproject.wordpress.com/ --I am thinking maybe we should join forces. :-) I am very much into letter art and letters about creativity. --Theresa Williams
    My e-mail is theresarrt7@aol.com

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