| ▲ | bigstrat2003 a day ago |
| Physical mail isn't difficult, even now, for anyone with a modicum of competence. I can understand if someone hasn't used physical mail before, but it's very easy to look up how to send a letter + buy envelopes and stamps. If someone cannot do that without difficulty, they really need to work on their basic life skills. |
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| ▲ | carstenhag 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Buying a stamp in the home country is doable for most people. But even then, imagine you are 20, how many mails do you think will you have sent? For a different country, I'd have no idea. Especially if it's so far away like the USA and I can't locally get a special reply post stamp. What I would have done is to put in 5€ in the envelope and call it a day. The person would probably be happy seeing other money. |
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| ▲ | mvdtnz 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| His difficulty was finding postage stamps for the self-addressed return envelope, and clearly the author is not American. Do you think it would be quite so easy to "buy envelopes and stamps" if you had to send a stamped return envelope to Nepal or Manila? Is that a "basic life skill" or would you have to do a little research to figure out what you'd need? |
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| ▲ | Symbiote 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | He had difficulty writing an address on an envelope. This skill is something we expect of 8 year old children. | | |
| ▲ | Brybry 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I sympathize strongly with the author. I write with a pen so infrequently (years between handwriting) that I often have handwriting errors that displease me. So I usually do some practice writing on scratch paper before attempting the final version. Notice he said "printing the address would have taken less time". That doesn't sound like the issue was formatting or knowledge. It reads to me as the physical skill of penmanship. | | |
| ▲ | adastra22 34 minutes ago | parent [-] | | How is that possible? I write things literally every day. Everyone I know does so. How do you go a literal year without picking up a pen? |
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| ▲ | odo1242 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Nowadays, not really. I had a similar experience - the first (well, first in a few years) time I had to send mail was this year for my taxes, and I ended up having to buy another envelope from the post office because I mixed up the delivery address and return address. | |
| ▲ | singpolyma3 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Maybe we used to. When sending letters was still a thing people did. |
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