“Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.”
Hedda Hopper (actor, gossip columnist)

“If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.”
Grover Cleveland (22nd & 24th President of the United States)

“I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There’s something about that person’s breath and hands on the letter.”
Diane Lane (actor)

“This is the Night Mail crossing the Border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner, the girl next door.”
W.H. Auden (poet)

“To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine!”
Susan Lendroth (children’s book author)

“There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too.”
Tom Hodgkinson (writer, editor, socialist)

“When I was a kid, the high point of the day was to go to the mailbox and see if any mail came for me, and I’m still stuck in that mode.”
Jim Beaver (actor)

“I get mail; therefore I am.”
Scott Adams (cartoonist)

ps. Envelope pictures are of some of my latest outgoing letters. But you already knew that.