Hand calligraphy & post office don't mix?

[shootingstar]

I'm genuinely curious why you chose not to include a return address. That's something that was beaten into my head by my mom, so I can't imagine ever not including it.

Of course, the postal service is not perfect, but I'm still amazed that I can send a letter across the country in a few days for less than half a dollar. Also, my uncle is a long-time USPS letter carrier, and seeing how hard he works I've found that I tend to have a little more sympathy for the postal service than many others do.

Just lazy, I normally do write the return address. That still is not an excuse to hand sort the mail with large, clearly written addressed envelope/pkg. front.

As for the letter carriers that deliver from door to door, I'm sure most work hard. Those sacks are heavy and am glad there are more ergonomic packs with padded straps for them to carry the letters. And still dealing with dogs, unshovelled walks, etc. These workers are further removed from the operations of inside workers at post office. (Evenlyn, this is just an observation. Wonder what the policies are for handsorting, if any.)

My prediction within next 25 yrs., hand calligraphy & calligraphic arts will reappear in greater vengeance but maybe in a nouveau art or media form..since handwritten stuff as an art, is becoming increasingly lost to mass-produced computer fonts and children learn less and less on cursive writing or handwriting in general. As you can tell, I really appreciate viewing art gallery exhibits with this stuff. At the British Museum, in the manuscript rm., I was in heaven. WHen getting into the groove of doing calligraphy, it is abit like cycling...one falls into a trance. So much that have occasionally fallen in love with executing the letter shapes that I spelled the word wrong!

Ok, am sounding artsy. But that's what it is in the end-- an art And why would I do it still for family, etc.? Am an artshead/art dabbler in the family, so it has meaning to them --back to the kid playing with paints, dreaming up poetry. THat's all.

Meanwhile Trek's idea is good one, suggest in calligraphic design on envelope, etc.. Meanwhile have to track this year's stuff for next few wks.