Sister Who Loves Snail Mail Gifts

A Mailing Day

"Cards to remind people that you still haven’t gotten a thank you note from them"

A postwoman delivers mail together with her baby who is riding in the letter carrier.

'You've been pre-approved for another credit card.'

'Harold is the brains behind the Smudge-o-Rama mailer.'

The birth of junk mail.

You've got snail.

Inuit post arriving by parachute.

"This is to apologise for the delay in internal mail that you wrote to us about in 1997"

The incredible journey: why your letter took two weeks to reach Connecticut

Junk Mail

'The check is in the mail...'

'It's unto thee.'

"Jim will have to call you back. He's trying to find his real mail that's buried in all the junk mail."

"Sara, we think you have a Dostoyevsky problem."

"If it makes you feel any better, I'm pretty sure you're single-handedly keeping the U.S. postal service in business."

No Caption. (A snail is shown towing snail shells on a trailer in the manner of a semi truck towing cars to an auto dealer.)

'Slow Connection'

Stamps - 'I'll always stick with you.' 'me too...like glue.'

"If it's really important, I can send it by turtle mail."

Couriers and their customers often share a warm relationship.

It's important to stay on grandpa's check list.

'First past the post?'

Customer to postal worker: 'How about the wounded letter office?'

'Yes, I understand that at the Pony Express, you deliver promptly, but it doesn't change the fact that this is NOT my mail...'

"I'm sure it was just an oversight, sir, but your subscription to 'Time' has lapsed."

"I really miss letters."

You've got mail...

Postman gives customer letter through letterbox.

MAIL CALL AT THOMPSON, HALVERSON, SPIELMAN & OSGOOD

'Sorry, ma'am, you just missed it. But we're expecting another one to blow through town in about an hour or so.'

"Handwrite and mail grandma's thank you note instead of texting? I don't have this kind of time!"

'Not everyone despairs at the state of the postal service.'

Junk Mail Yard - "Catalogue junk over there, Insurance and credit cards over there.."

"The snail-mail of our species is deadlier than the e-mail."