Sister Who Loves Snail Mail Prints

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...'

'Slow Connection'

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

'It's unto thee.'

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

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

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

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

Couriers and their customers often share a warm relationship.

'First past the post?'

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

You've got mail...

Postman gives customer letter through letterbox.

"I really miss letters."

'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."

MAIL CALL AT THOMPSON, HALVERSON, SPIELMAN & OSGOOD

"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.'

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

"Did I put enough postage on that?"

"I still like getting snail mail except for the slime!"