Except for my friend Aaron. For reasons I'm not remotely going to go into here, Aaron is in jail and the main way I have to communicate with him is by writing letters. So I got a valentines day card from him yesterday and I'm looking at the envelope and I see this in the corner:
I'll admit, I was intrigued. So I typed poweroftheletter.com into my browser and ended up here:
A MINISERIES? Ok, I'll admit I was expecting something a bit more profound. But I started clicking around and it's actually not a bad site. The post office is running a promotion where you can get a free greeting card that they will personalize with your picture through the end of March. It also provides links to photos of some of John Adams original letters to his wife and, of course, you can watch a preview of the mini-series. I found myself thinking that it was a clever little PR move to promote this mini-series, except for one thing:
No one bloody writes letters anymore.
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