Perhaps you will write & say hello

There was some postal excitement around here this week.  I received a lovely card from a reader who found Scribbling Glue via Missive Maven’s collection of Letter Blogs (in which I am honored to be included) and felt inspired to write to me.  What fun!

Don’t you love the coordination between the envelope and the stamps (not to mention the postal-themed stamps themselves)?

Inside the envelope I found this fun card with teacups, a bird’s nest, and glitter!

Inside the card there was a delightful note, which ended with “Perhaps you will write & say hello.”   And so I shall — hooray!

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Paying bills is fun!

The quarterly municipal water and sewer bill arrived this week.  While not my favorite kind of mail to receive, I do love working utilities, so I sat right down and paid it.

Since the bill arrives in postcard form, I had to supply an envelope for mailing the check.  When I went to raid my stash of random plain envelopes (thrifted for pennies in anticipation of just this sort of postal moment), the first envelopes I saw in my stationary drawer were the ones I recently made from an old calendar.

And I thought, Why not?  Maybe it will make the Utilities Commission’s mail opener smile.

It did cross my mind that this was an unusual idea and might be considered odd, but when I saw that I had an envelope made from an aerial shot of my town, I took it as a sign that it was a good unusual idea.

I went all out and tucked a note in my fancy bill-paying envelope:

Saying “thank you” makes the world a better place.  Truly.

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