kamuela
Crayons
Posts: 10
Looking for Penpals?: Yes. Global penpals welcome
Country I live in is: USA
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Post by kamuela on Aug 1, 2019 2:32:32 GMT
I compose the return letter on my computer because I can type faster and compose better on it. I also want to focus on writing well when I use my fountain pens, so it's easier to copy from a print out hardcopy. My return letters are filed in my computer this way. The hard copy that I use gets folded and put in the pen pals letter, dated on the outside, a note if I included any scenic photographs, and then filed. After a while this system goes pretty smoothly. j
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Post by alcyone on May 20, 2022 17:57:55 GMT
I thought I'd be able to scan all of my mail, but in practice it's too big a pain. I may have to just let my letters be ephemeral and throw them out every few months. Though every once in a while I get a letter from a long lost penpal and it's nice to read the last letter.
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Post by Mia on May 19, 2023 18:31:46 GMT
I'm pondering reorganising the old letters. Maybe file properly, alphabetically, so if someone does want to get back in touch with me, can dig out the letters with ease...
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iamtdogg
Pencils
Posts: 77
Looking for Penpals?: Yes. Global penpals welcome
Country I live in is: Scotland
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Post by iamtdogg on May 19, 2023 19:38:11 GMT
Currently my plan is to store chronologically I have a storage box I am using that I think should be able to store a years letters in each box and then I would keep them stored to go back to in the future
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Post by sunshine2170 on Jun 16, 2023 5:25:20 GMT
I scan all the letter I receive and store them digitally, I also scan the envelopes. then I remove the stamps to my collection and shred everything. I have accumulated too much to keep physical records so I now keep them digitally.
However I do keep those envelopes that have been decorated or calligraphied.
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Post by Mia on Dec 22, 2023 21:20:49 GMT
I'm currently reorganising letters, specifically, the old ones. I have forgotten how many people I'd written to over the last 16 years, and who on the forum I'd had 5Q answers from! So, for the non-continuing correspondence, I'm grouping them by site/project, e.g. Incowrimo 2015, Postcrossing, other websites/groups, Feb project years.
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Post by although on Dec 23, 2023 3:25:48 GMT
I'm still scanning everything. I didn't start with the scanning until late 2020, so I don't have anything that I wrote before that. But, I've got all received letters digitized and all of my responses for the last three years. It's getting up toward 400 letters.
That being said, I've still got the originals. I haven't been able to work up the courage to shred them.
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iamtdogg
Pencils
Posts: 77
Looking for Penpals?: Yes. Global penpals welcome
Country I live in is: Scotland
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Post by iamtdogg on Dec 23, 2023 14:04:11 GMT
I keep all my postcards, letters and greetings cards in a big world map box and intend to get another for 2024 I have had over 300 items of mail in during 2023 which is crazy as I only started in January
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Post by sunshine2170 on Dec 24, 2023 16:42:17 GMT
Wow iamtdogg thats almost a letter a day, you must be a prolific writer.
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Post by Mia on Dec 25, 2023 15:03:51 GMT
Still working my way through. So far, correspondence hasn't continued with 307 people! That's a lot of letters!
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Post by sunshine2170 on Dec 29, 2023 21:01:41 GMT
I gave up on my 365 challenge, my first time working in the Cruise Ship Domain and boy has this season been busy, busy, busy and very challenging with passengers dying before cruise, during cruise and after cruise, very sombre working day when this happens.
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Post by Mia on Jan 20, 2024 21:43:31 GMT
Almost finished going through who I've corresponded with... Do still want a more romantic way of storing correspondence rather than wrapped in plastic!
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escorpio
Pencils
Posts: 93
Looking for Penpals?: Perhaps. It depends...
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Post by escorpio on Feb 16, 2024 11:31:05 GMT
The box I use for storing my correspondence is quickly overflowing, as I've acquired more penpals in recent years. Yesterday I sat down to sort through my newest letters, so I would put them in the correct piles. That I need a new box, or something else soon is evident.
But I had two huge piles of letters from penpals I no longer write to, or have any relation to (that is, not even through social media). It feels so bad to throw out something someone has written specifically for me, but at the same time, I never read them and I doubt they would be of value to anyone. Maybe I should just rip the band aid.
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Post by ginny on Feb 16, 2024 13:04:37 GMT
The box I use for storing my correspondence is quickly overflowing, as I've acquired more penpals in recent years. Yesterday I sat down to sort through my newest letters, so I would put them in the correct piles. That I need a new box, or something else soon is evident. But I had two huge piles of letters from penpals I no longer write to, or have any relation to (that is, not even through social media). It feels so bad to throw out something someone has written specifically for me, but at the same time, I never read them and I doubt they would be of value to anyone. Maybe I should just rip the band aid. Just a tiny little piece of advice - if you decide to chuck them out, I'd recommend using a shredder so the contents won't be legible anymore... after all the contents of a letter are private, and I think it should be kept that way. I know what you mean about feeling bad for throwing out something someone has written specifically for you, but then again, once a letter leaves the sender's hand, so to speak, it's up to the recipient to do whatever seems suitable. After having been in the 'business' for over 45 years and experiencing a lot of 'one letter wonders', I can only confirm that you cannot keep everything, and it would perhaps not be wise to do so, anyway.
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escorpio
Pencils
Posts: 93
Looking for Penpals?: Perhaps. It depends...
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Post by escorpio on Feb 20, 2024 9:31:54 GMT
The box I use for storing my correspondence is quickly overflowing, as I've acquired more penpals in recent years. Yesterday I sat down to sort through my newest letters, so I would put them in the correct piles. That I need a new box, or something else soon is evident. But I had two huge piles of letters from penpals I no longer write to, or have any relation to (that is, not even through social media). It feels so bad to throw out something someone has written specifically for me, but at the same time, I never read them and I doubt they would be of value to anyone. Maybe I should just rip the band aid. Just a tiny little piece of advice - if you decide to chuck them out, I'd recommend using a shredder so the contents won't be legible anymore... after all the contents of a letter are private, and I think it should be kept that way. I know what you mean about feeling bad for throwing out something someone has written specifically for you, but then again, once a letter leaves the sender's hand, so to speak, it's up to the recipient to do whatever seems suitable. After having been in the 'business' for over 45 years and experiencing a lot of 'one letter wonders', I can only confirm that you cannot keep everything, and it would perhaps not be wise to do so, anyway. Thanks for the advice! I've had no problems throwing out the gazillion of drawings my kids have brought home (of course I've kept some of them, and the daycare kept some to give when they left for school), but then again I also know that I won't go back to reading those letters. It's easier to throw them out without opening them at all.
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