You’ve Got Mail! Like, Real. Handwritten. Mail!

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I love it when artists feature me in their work!

Victor, an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science student at MIT, draws upon real life to create humorous and often revealing cartoons.

The cartoon below will likely speak to many, but rest assured, that’s me in the drawings!

Snail Mail Happy by poofytoo.com

How times change. I fully remember sitting at my computer in the 90′s and bemoaning the fact that I seldom received email – all the while being non-plused by the handwritten letters that arrived by post. Yesterday, receiving three handwritten letters in a single trip to the mailbox was so exciting, I actually shared the great news with Dan via text and very nearly tweeted it to the masses.

I can’t possibly be alone in these feelings. Do you also enjoy receiving handwritten letters? Let’s all pledge to write and send a letter this weekend. It doesn’t matter to whom, just that the deed gets done. Doing so will give you a dose of the warm fuzzies and your fountain pen will thank you for providing exercise of a non-doodling nature. And who knows – if it’s true that what goes around, comes around, we might all receive letters in return.

To view more of Victor’s work (and to see if he’s featuring you in some way), visit his website: Poofytoo.com

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  • https://plus.google.com/113281675223657146847/posts Lireoec

    Heh 10 years ago, I didn’t really get letters in the mail, I was too young, my friends just called whenever they wanted to chat, then we got email addresses… I think that’s when I created my current email address, approximately 10 years ago. We used to send random emails about interesting websites we found on the Internet and that was ‘social networking’ for us. Oh there were also chat rooms. They were pretty cool.

  • Will Platt

    I’ve written a thank you note to Andy_LA for some shellac!

    Whenever my family signs family chrismas cards, birthdays, thank you…etc., I make sure that we each use a different fountain pen ( I sign w/ my m400, my dad signs with an osmoroid oblique leftie (talk about a weird nib), my mom signs with her dad’s P75, and my sister uses a Cross Aventura.)

  • David

    I want to write YOU a letter FPGeeks. What’s your address? Why don’t you put your snail mail address under the Contacts tab?

    • http://fpgeeks.com/ Dan Smith

      Done.

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