Snail mail




 They call it snail mail now, but in the olden days it was the only way to send mail; air mail was faster, surface mail was slow, but it cost less for a stamp. You could purchase stamps at the Post Office (you still can) and attach a stamp to your letter envelope, and put it in a mail box. 

It was very slow, but the stamps were pretty, and collectable. I know, because as a child I had a stamp album, This was a thing. I was a stamp collector, and I would mail away for stamps (international stamps) to fill my stamp album. My sister had one too.

How did we have time for this? I don’t know. Everything was slow.



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