Hi Adam! I have just been doing that exact thing! Envelopes from a calendar! Otherwise I recycle my paintings/drawings, and any interesting paper. I do prefer A5 size envelopes generally (more space f...

Hello from Elizabeth in England! I’ve just deleted my friends list from last year to make things more organised and less muddly - eg some people I never did hear from. Quite a few people are ongoing p...

Wrote last one tonight, number 39, ready for posting tomorrow. Off to Alaska. I really should have taken it to the postbox now, but cold and dark. Received 2 letters this morning from existing pen fr...

Today I sent letter number 30. It was a reply to an existing pen friend (I think from here last year?), who had written twice in a row, so thought I should get on with a reply. I posted it in a post b...

Angela, it's a way of supporting the website. See top right, red 'Shop' You can opt to just donate, or to buy membership, so be sent a numbered membership card through the post. It should be promoted ...

It’s international to me too - I’m in England! 🙂 Middle of south coast…

Thought I’d share what I’m doing: Have just taken 2 parcels to the PO. Up to number 27, so pleased with this. I don’t write every day, but then some days several letters. Work and family/social life g...

Excited to have received my membership card, and so feel even more part of this and pleased to support this! Thank you!

Gosh, Eric A! I'm number 62 of the Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society! 🙂

Gutten tag!!? No idea what these messages say, but just want to express how pleasing it feels if people get involved using languages other than English! Makes the whole thing feel bigger… Welcome all!

I have 2 of our red post boxes “pillar boxes” a couple of minutes walk away. Collected from at around 9am every day except Sunday. Rather exciting if I see it being done. The slot is about 2 inches de...

Oh yes, I’m in the UK too. All these considerations of size/thickness/weight are so frustrating and annoying! The silver lining of the horrendous increase in price is that for international you no lon...

Gosh Gary, thank goodness you actually remembered who the missing letter was from… Sounds a bit like my organisational plans.. When a letter comes in, I put it in a letter rack. Not necessarily in ord...