Whenever I think about or hear the word airmail I automatically visualize those bordered blue and red checked envelopes. I just mailed two packages that will travel by air. They got all decked out with those blue airmail stickers. Two weeks they tell me. And that was only to the USA. I have mailed packages before overseas hoping they would arrive for Christmas and it might have been months into the new year that they actually arrived.
Perhaps that is why a new app that came out this week generated a bit of a buzz. The new app by Lettrs.com provides a cloud-based platform to send both paper and digital letters. It does this by converting mobile voice, data and pictures to digital and paper post letters. It seems too unreal that I can’t really imagine it. In an article over at Mashable we learn that Drew Bartkiewicz, the founder of Lettrs, says “Implicit with the phrase ‘I sent you a letter’ is the notion that someone took time to choose more deliberate words, more completed thoughts.” I couldn’t agree more! As I was chatting with some other folks on Twitter this week about this new application I asked them what they thought and if they felt it would replace pen to paper letter writing. Some certainly found the concept intriguing but didn’t feel that it would replace actually sitting down with a pen in hand.
Some things are just worth waiting for.
P.S. The mailbox and mountain picture was taken on my travels this week at Rafter Six Ranch, between Calgary and Canmore Alberta, Canada.