One of my favorite things in my younger days was getting letters. Actual, stamped, paper mail! Post cards, inland letters, letters in envelopes with interesting stamps that were a story in themselves. Little packages. Handwritten letters. Greeting cards. Anything. That level of enthusiasm might sound a bit silly, but honestly, there are very few things these days that make me happier than getting something in the mail. These days we have lost that connectivity in an ever-wired world! e-Snail is a new online web and mobile platform that makes it easy to write and send real letters to anywhere in the world. It’s ‘snail mail’ for the digital age. Let’s bring back the lost art of letter writing, one lovely piece of snail mail at a time.
Have you been looking for a convenient way to send a real letter rather than an email? Maybe you have family in your home country? Elderly relatives? Friends far away? Or you just have desire for more meaningful communication that feels like it needs more than a text message? A new platform has launched with a promise to revolutionise the ‘old fashioned’ art of letter writing for the digital age.
Letters are a long, uninterrupted monologue with a purpose: to communicate with someone you aren’t seeing in person. I’ve always felt that handwritten letters have a wonderful degree of sentimentality. Some of the world’s most powerful novels were written in epistolary form — Dracula by Bram Stoker. comes to mind. There’s nothing quite like deciphering handwriting, trying to guess who the letter is from when you receive a mysterious envelope you weren’t expecting! There is feeling in a letter; there’s personality, detail, intimacy. Texting or calling doesn’t feel as special as that! It seems more rushed and immediate with short phrases and emoticons. Seeing someone’s handwriting brings you closer to their presence, and the mere act of sitting down and composing a letter allows you to express to someone how much you truly care about them or miss them — and that’s something I don’t think we can afford to lose.
e-Snail is an online letter writing service – available on web and mobile – that makes it easy to write real letters and get them delivered anywhere in the world, wherever you are. Creating your letter is straightforward. You simply login to the e-Snail platform through its website – www.e-snail.com, choose a template, font, colour, type your letter, add any photos and hit send. Letters are then printed and posted from one of e-Snail’s regional printing hubs in the US, UK, India, and Australia. This is such a wonderful idea for those who have old parents back home, who are not so savvy with tech and would love to read and re-read a letter from their loved ones!
The website is user-friendly and designed to allow you to type your correspondence and upload an image into a choice of uniquely designed templates that you can personalise with a variety of fonts and colours. Printed letters are folded into envelopes and sealed at e-Snail’s regional printing hubs, allowing for privacy and confidence that your words will fly to the receiver anywhere across the globe. Letters are easily opened and re-sealable, thanks to a specially designed glueing mechanism, meaning recipients can store e-Snail letters and re-read them over and over.
James Hayward, Managing Director of e-Snail says: “Receiving a thoughtful letter, sent with news and love from a friend or relative, knowing they’ve taken the time to compose those words – has so much more meaning to the important people in your life. The idea of e-Snail came when I was facing difficulties in communicating from abroad to loved ones back home. In my case, I had a relative who was not able to use the phone or computers. Letters were the saviour – they bring joy into homes, comfort to those that need it and connections that last. e-Snail gives people all round the world a new and easy way to send a real paper letter that still lands in the mailbox – and you don’t even have to go to the post office to do it.”
So let’s all start writing letters again!