mmm.. i'm just wondering does anyone of you guys here still snail-mailing?

i'm lemming for it actually. much joy for recieving letters when it's handwritten aka sincerity..

what do you guys think?

I'm a fan of writing letters. I'm currently deployed so I tend to write a lot of letters. I agree, the sincerity is definitely there... That and I always love finding out what kinda penmanship certain people have. I tend to think that it says a lot about people.

when I was younger, I used to have alot of penpals. Now, I have none. I sort of miss the feeling..

OMG!
that reminds me!
i havent wrote back!!!! agh!!!

i have one in france.
one in the phillipines.
and used to have one in korea.

and i harass a lot of thais online.
well, i mean msn.
because im gonna study there, so... i need some insight ya know?
well not harass but talk to.

the feeling is soooo great. i love it.
opening that letter with different looking stamps.....

getting that french dictionary to look up words in the letter....

PRICELESS.

I had a few Japanese penpals in the past , mostly males who traveled a lot on business, so it was hard to keep in touch.

I'd like another snail mail pal in the future. I like my msn convos with friends and all, but not all the time. It's good to get away from the comp screen once in a while.

I had penpals in the past, it was fun to receive letters from all over the world. But as I grew up, I didn't have much time for letter-writing, and apparently, neither did my pen-pals, so we eased off corresponding. I wouldn't mind writing letters again, but I guess not everyone has the patience to write and wait for letters to arrive.

I would love some penpals!

bleh, no. i have a couple friends who really lament the loss of letter-writing and yearn for the return of personal snail mail, but all i can say is that i feel guilty whenever i receive a nicely handwritten letter from either of them, because i have absolutely no desire to reciprocate. i can put my hand to pen, pen to stationery, but then it's just like... "i don't know how to handwrite anymore! it's messy, it takes too long, and i can't backspace or insert anything!" i'm lazy and addicted to technology

i miss cute stickers though. like on envelopes and letters?

Agreed. My penpals used to put rubberstamps and stickers all over the letters. After graduating from school, I think I haven't touch any of my stationery at all.. Hahaha, probably a real messy handwriting now.

I would like to have penpals too~ XD

MSN/Internet sorta killed the concept of sending handwritten letters. People start getting lazy and typing on msn and sending emails, which has no intimacy whatsoever and no warm feeling at all. We could still write the letters and all, but would you feel like doing so when your penpal is at a few clicks away from your computer? I had some too before but lost contact with them

Oh man, I REALLY miss writing letters out to my penpals, to my friends even. We text, msn each other instead of writing notes, something we both used to do 5-6 years back. I'd love to start over again though, I really miss the anticipation of waiting for a letter to come in the mail, that thin slip of envelope with handwriting scrawled across its surface. ;___;

me and my friends from Nebraska used to write each other alot but we dont anymore since there is instant messaging lol

I don't know if i would want to have a penpal.

I mean, as soon as they get released from the pen, would you still want to associate with them?

when i was younger, my cousin was my "penpal" since we live in different states. man, i wrote to her like every other day. we both have big boxes filled with our letters. now we just talk everyday on gchat

in junior high had 2 penpals in spain. i wrote to them a lot, but snail mail takes soooo long to get there, so after a while it got kind of frustrating. i wish i had a penpal still.

me and my friends were talking about how kids theses days dont know how to write anymore cuz typing is so much more part of our basic lifestyle now. my friend is a teacher for junior high and he says he cant read half the test they turn in.

i remember when i was a kid, they used to make us type out our papers so we get more practice typing but now they should make it the other way around. kids need to learn how to write properly and legibly.

i want a japanese penpal!!... but how the hell do i get one?

OMG i missed it so much...
somehow this topic brings back so much memories i've left behind....
yes i have many from thailand and japan, but i guess we've all grown and departed our own ways...
it's such a bittersweet feeling

it'd be nice to have penpals...wouldn't u agree?

Try here: http://www.japan-guide.com/penfriend/

I found three pen pals from this place.

One penpal I communicated with several years, but I think he got bored with it and decided to end our communication. The other two penpals, I still write regularly via e-mail. Both are men, one who just turned 60 this year and the other in his 40s.

I have had other penpals but they didn't seem serious about it and communication came less and less.

The two Japanese penpals I have are very nice. Both of them I have been corresponding with for over five years. Last year in March, my oldest penpal visited the US and came to see me. It was a wonderful experience. I took him on a tour of my city then took him to Williamsburg for a day and then to Monticello the next. The visit was brief but very enriching.

I have a penpal in Italy but we talk sparingly. He's in his 30s and writes fantasy novels. Very neat.

I always wish to have a girl penpal but I don't know what the deal is with not being able to get one. lol!

Oh well, I would like to have a pen pal from South Korea. That would be awesome.

And I am for e-mail or snail mail. I am flexible.

Two in France
One in Ireland

I still keep in touch with two of them.
1 France
1 Ireland
1 Korean girl

Well, the french girl and I still write letters back and forth...
Korean Girl we still talk... so so..
Ireland boy and I write emails and we read each other's blogs....oooooooooo and skype! ^^

It was fun and exciting because you get to read about what they did and the hot spots of european lifestyle.

I still recieved letters and still talking onn skype with them! <3

I have 8 girl penpals;
1 French,
3 Japanese,
2 Korean,
1 German,
1 Tunisian,
1 Taiwanese
-and the only boy from Korea

I still keep in touch with them. Because I loves writing.
All of them still using traditional way; snail mail coz we both agreed that snailmail is more fun and sincere.
Well, it's hard to find the boy that was good in writing and decorating letter.
Only this Korean boy that I found was hardworking decorating letters and have a beautiful handwriting.
Many boys are lazy to write.
No wonder I have more girlfriends than the boy..

haha i do (^^,) i have some penfriends frum Singapore, Thailand, Netherlands & poland.

the Netherlands & poland ones are my fellow Vanessa-Mae fans xD we share V-Mae stuffs through snail mail & they send me V-Mae concert pix that they watched o.o pretty nice captures they took.

I have a Korean penpal. She's awesome! She bought me silver chopsticks. I can read hangul now thanks to her.

my best friend and i usually wrote letters when she lived in NYC and even tho we chatted everyday on msn or via text
we found there were lots of things to say, small observations of the commute and things that had just popped to mind at the time.

We gmail letters now because it take 3 freakin weeks for any mail to get to her in the phillipines, but we still write occasionally.

i find sometimes that there are things better said in a letter that you would normally say or explain on the phone that are too wordy and for an IM or a PM.

I even bought an ink pen for the first time in like a decade to write letters especially *loves*

i used to have a lot of penpals back in high school.. i miss writing letter though.. it exercises my hand since i hardly write now.. i mostly do emails now but heck.. i dont even have enough email pals too.. haha! who wants to exchange letters with me? nah.. j/k.. dont have the time and energy and money.. i'd want to have a japanese friend though..

I would love to have a penpal and exchange letters. I wish I cold have one who lives in South Korea, because I plan to go there after I graduate for a year and it would be cool to get advice and find a friend before I go.

I love writing letters as well as receiving hand written ones =) I used to be penpals with a friend of mine who moved to Australia, but I lost contact with her ;( She was my bess since kindergarten. UGh` bummers.

I want a Penpal soo much!
Specially in Japan or South korea,
Well anywhere really...:S
Im Fed up of my friends in england there boring..! ^^

ugh, u'd see me as a insane mad scientist or something cuz my penship sux something awful

never had one and don't think i'll need one, i mean e-mail is sooo much easier. but having one from korea would be pretty awesome

i think it'd be nice to have a penpal... getting a handwritten letter would be nice instead of getting bills all the time. :-P

^ LOL ! Yeah for the past years instead of "LOVE-letters", have been recieving overdued bills all the time

I used to kind of have a pen pal in Korea, but I lost her e-mail (real one) and she never comes on MSN anymore. It's kind of a shame 'cause we used to talk about our different locations and exchange photos and music.

I used to have two from HK, one from Pakistan, two from Malaysia and one from China.

It was way back in high school and i didnt keep in touch with any of them now.

i just got three from Korea. and it's such a coincidence that their names are Yun Soochul, Yun Eunhye and EunHee.. lolx.. I put the two SooCHUL and EunHEE together and I get HEECHUL..muwahahha.. yes, I love Heechul.


my friend is family friends with V Mae and i always get lots of stories.. lolx..

Used to have a Korean pen pal, but I failed to write her back. I really like getting her letters. I wished I coulda kept in contact.

Now, that I moved I just email my friends.

I have one awesome (regular) penpal who lives in Kyoto! <3 her! She's so wonderful and we send each other gifts throughout the year.

I always loved the concept of writing letters and sending them over via mail. I just never had a chance to get a penpal and still don't know how.

i'm getting a penpal next week! she's from a small town in ghana, africa.

the priest at my church is from ghana and he was telling us about the struggle in ghana.
they're a very poor country and my priest is trying to build a school there. and i told him that i'd like to donate money,
but there's something a bit...insensitive (for lack of better word) about that.
so he told me that i could write to a student there and that would be very encouraging for the student.

i'm super excited to start writing. haven't had a penpal since before the internet.

wow snail mail? Sounds wonderful!

The thing is... I'm not very good at keeping in touch with people. I have a close friend who moved to the other side of the country and I have a hard time returning her phone calls sometimes. And then I have friends in Korea and Japan that I met when I travelled over the summer, but after a couple months I stopped writing back... and that was just e-mails. But the thought of receiving something in the actual mailbox seems so personal that I think it would definitely inspire me to write back right away and find cute little stickers and things to include in my letter. But I don't know... what to talk about? I feel like my whole life is school haha how boring!

I would like to have a penpal in Australia or New Zealand. I'm graduating after this semester and want to travel and work over there for a couple months before going to grad school... just for fun. They have these websites with jobs for people who want to go to Australia or New Zealand for an extended holiday and I check it every now and then.

Anyone wanna be my e-mail pal? I hate sending stuff through the mail. I live in Los Angeles, California. PM me if you're interested

I'm actually starting that with someone who I happen to adore very much. A land mass, and an Atlantic ocean way. Its nice to have something to keep in a scrapbook.

I only write to friends.
The thing is, I usually write them but they rarely reply back.
It feels like they are neglecting my presence...*cries*

Anyhow, I like to write letters or cards - much more than sending e-mails.

Ohhh. does any one know any sites to find penpals? especially ones from korean?

thanks~

awwwww.
no one writes to me anymore.

anyone, anywhere, anywho wants to be penpals???
even if we're in the same state!!
it'll just be fun writing to someone,
it'll give something fun to do.
and maybe we can send small gifts just for the fun of it. whatever.

reminds me, i need to write to my penpals.
take care ya'll.

I've had imaginary friends.
I don't suppose I could also have imaginary penpals?
And when I write to them, I could use invisible ink.

that is deeeeeep!!! hahaha
i'm pretty sure you would still be pals without the pens =)

i used to have some penpals, but i've lost in touch w/ them after a while
nowadays i prefer epals ~ it's faster
um yeah, anyone interested to be epals w/ me, pls pm me

I love to write letters to a friend more than just emailing.
It's a very special kind of feel to receive letter from your penpal.
I used to have some penpals but then i don't know how but we just lost contact.
I miss those days... I want a penpal!

I had a guy friend, he was Japanese and he was from Japan!
He writes his own music and he has his own band. He's like a vocalist and he plays electric guitar and drum.
He said he was hoped to become famous.

We didn't really tell each other our real names. I called myself Sakura? O_O
Well actually he gave me a Japanese name Lol XD He named me Sakura.

And his name was Ichigo (bleach) XDDDDDDDDDDDD Well that time I didn't know what bleach anime was.
We would combine ourselves Ichigo Sakura. Strawberry Flower.

We would write to each other for like 2 years? But then we stopped because I kept moving to new house.
So I told him not to mail me and just email each other on MSN.

So we did that... I missed doing the penpal with him because it was very fun.
He would send me his favorite anime images and like some of his music recorded.
He also wrote a song for me called, "Sakura, the Sweet Girl" XDD it was soooooooo cute!
I remember that he told me he was 7 years older than me though. And he made me beanie hat!
And like bracelets too like friendship bracelet.

Then around 2001, we stopped talking to each other because he said this music company wanted
him and his friends to become famous. So he asked me to wait for him for few months.

But he didn't talk to me for few months later. But in 2003, he said he's in a band now!! O__O
Like famous band!! He didn't tell me which band he is in though =X

He said something like "I would tell you my band name. But I'm afraid we will lose our friendship
over famous situations. I am worried, I don't want to lose you as a friend. So I rather not say it."

But he sent me one of his previous work of music?? I heard it, it was soooooooooo good!
We talked on the phone few times before too!! ^___^ He would tell me like "Music is my therapist.
It sets my mood to change. I like that feeling" ^___^

Then in 2004-05, he told me that he's been going to Europe, Canada, America, and other Asia countries
for their music cause they became so famous!! T-T;;

Then we stopped talking in Summer 2005 T-T;; Because... I had my own problems to deal with. I just cut
everything out...................... even my penpal!! I even told him to register to createblog.com/forums too hahaha so we can keep in contact there. but i quit createblog too... cause of dramas.

then yeah.. D: it's been 2 years i haven't contact him? i don't remember my old email address where we used to contact T_T_T_T_T_T_T_T;;;

Then my friends joke me around saying "what if Shou from Alice Nine is your penpal" LOL I WISH XDDDDDDDDDD kekekeke. But I shouldn't wish for it... cause who knows it would hurt his feeling >__<;;

I would LOVE to have a penpal... I send things to my friends overseas every once in a while but not on a regular basis. I just send things to my friends on their birthdays or major holidays and such... I would really love to correspond with some nice person far away though.

I'm looking for Japanese pen pals (ones actually in Japan). I think it'd be cool. Trying to find a safe website that doesn't cost anything. If anyone's interested in a pen-pal from the USA let me know! (And I'm talking actual snail-mail, not e-mail.) Snail mail is more fun