Good Monday Morning!

1. Question – So why do we keep disappointing them?

2. Thought – Check your mailbox. If you’re an average American, you’ll have to receive 100 pieces of mail if you’re hoping to get just one personal letter. What’s more, that personal mail is most likely not a letter at all, but a greeting card, an announcement, or an invitation.

What the postal service calls “household-to-household” correspondence is less than 1 percent of the 100 billion pieces of first-class mail every year. The quickest blame goes to e-mail, but I suspect that letter writing began its regrettable decline with the lowered cost of long-distance phone calls. For whatever reason, people no longer reach out and touch through thoughtful, lasting, handwritten (or even typed) words on paper. And I mourn the loss.

When the U.S. Postal Service published a “Mail Moment” survey, it concluded with bittersweet observation that “two-thirds of all consumers do not expect to receive personal mail, but when they do, it makes their day. This hope keeps them coming back each day.” The survey said that 55% of Americans look forward to the possibilities in each day’s mail. So why do we keep disappointing them? (The Little Red Book of Wisdom by Mark DeMoss)

​Time!​