Snail Mail isn’t just letters. There’s a lot more to it than that! Let’s start with the decoration. You can decorate the letter itself, decorate the envelope it goes in and decorate the extras you add in the letter. It’s all about that creativity. 

You also add stuff in with your letter. It’s all about sharing the love in this community. I usually add some stickers or washi tape to my letters. You can exchange tea bags or recipes too. You can add bookmarks, poems, playlists youre listening to right now. The possibilities are endless. Check out this list from the Bring Back Paper blog on things to add to your happy mail. 

It’s also not just about letter writing. There are postcards too, don’t forget about the whole postcard community on Post Crossing. And people in the pen pal community will do stationery swaps too, which is literally just exchanging stationery you have with someone. Stationery swaps include papers, stickers, washi tape, stamps, tea, and more. The final thing I’ll note is a concept I just discovered called travelling notebooks. You make a notebook and come up with a list of people who volunteer to write in it. It goes from one person to anther until it gets sent back to you fully written in and decorated. How cool is that? 

So like I said, the snail mail community is vast and creative and amazing. Check it out sometime. I promise you won’t regret it.