addressing an envelope
Filed Under Category Randomness by titanium
Since I’m younger than email, and grew up in a country where mail sometimes could take 8 months or longer to arrive, I’m not very familiar with letter writing or addressing etiquette. I found this page on the Australia post website useful, it talks about how to write an address, the best place to put it on an envelope, and how to be friendly to the electronic sorters they use these days.
Also: 55 cents to send something, when I send email for (pretty much) free? Wow. No wonder email revolutionised the world.
January 28, 2010 | |
The Royal Mail does this too. This seems strange to me as we were taught this at school (and how to write business letters). Who knows, maybe in a few years there will be documentaries about addressing envelopes and people will gasp in amazement at the primitive technology used
It seems strange that I’ve not written many letters myself, but we definitely had letter-writing in our English syllabus back in school.
Whether on paper or e-mail, the basics are the same though – whether for business or personal letters.
I get the letter-writing concept because I send emails. But the mechanism of sending it is different than putting in an email address, subject line and clicking send!
Only with the addition of a stamp: both an envelope and a letter need addressing. They both need to be written and both need a delivery mechanism. A physical letter needs a stamp, but the analogy still holds.
The analogy holds, Ray, but like many forms of traditional technologies, there is an etiquette required for more efficient communication that the computer handles for you when sending email.