Steal this postal idea

I was thinking about how much fun it was to get mail as a kid. These days, it is all bills and Kafkaesque forms from the government, which gave me an idea.

What if there was some sort of inexpensive subscription service where you got a nice or fun letter in the snail-mail post each month? Maybe customised for you in some way. Perhaps also some postcards from random parts of the world.

Perhaps when you sign up for a year of nice mail, you could opt in to a postcard exchange. Opted-in people would get their postal address added to a handful of nice letters with a prompt to maybe send them a postcard. Thus, subscribers would get nice things by post from the service and also from other people who like sending cool local postcards.

For added niceness, opt-ed in people could get a birthday mention. Or put on the postcard part of all the letters.

Something like that anyway. There would have to be an opt-in component because I’d not be happy sharing my address otherwise.

Gizmodo: People Making AI Studio Ghibli Images Are Now Producing Fake Legal Letters to Go With Their Fake Art. “The trend of using Open AI’s ChatGPT to create AI images in the distinctive style of Studio Ghibli probably should have ceased the moment the official White House X account hopped aboard. But there’s a new wrinkle in the story today, as one of the trend’s proponents posted a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/29/gizmodo-people-making-ai-studio-ghibli-images-are-now-producing-fake-legal-letters-to-go-with-their-fake-art/

#Anonymous #Letters Appearing Across #America | We #Investigated by #CHUPPL #yt

https://youtu.be/vSynsOf4560

University of Michigan: War of the Worlds fan mail: Over 1,300 letters digitized, open access from U-M Library. “The University of Michigan Library has digitized, transcribed and categorized more than 1,300 fan letters sent in response to the 1938 broadcast of Orson Welles’ ‘War of the Worlds.’ The entire collection of letters, part of the university’s Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/21/war-of-the-worlds-fan-mail-over-1300-letters-digitized-open-access-from-u-m-library-university-of-michigan/

#ScienceFiction #fandom #letters #WarOfTheWorlds

'The University of Michigan Library has digitized, transcribed and categorized more than 1,300 fan letters sent in response to the 1938 broadcast of Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds.”

The entire collection of letters, part of the university’s Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers Collection, has been published open access for researchers and fans around the globe.'

https://news.umich.edu/war-of-the-worlds-fan-mail-over-1300-letters-digitized-open-access-from-u-m-library/

I’m sure there were some even bigger ones out there with those multipliers

#Letters #33

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Good morning.

11 March 2025

I think back to my days in Vietnam, in 1972. I used to write letters to my grandmother—I still have them somewhere. Back then, calling home wasn’t really an option. A few months ago, I opened a couple of those letters and realized just how atrocious my handwriting was—more of a scrawl, really—and to top it off, my spelling wasn’t much better.

It’s been years since I last sat down to write a letter. With global telephone coverage, email, and texting, I suspect handwritten letters have become a rarity. Still, we’ve been lucky enough to receive a few letters from one of our granddaughters.

Funny thought—'kind of a scrawl, couldn’t spell at all' sounds like it could be lyrics in a country western song.

"In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives." - Anatole Broyard

#dailyhandwriting
#surfneblin (gnomish)
8. write each lowercase letter five times
...or present a surfneblin vowel conjunct grid?

rev. 8 of wands
rev. 8 of pentacles
Communication and splendour of fire and earth ill-dignified.
These are both from recent draws...