Two and a half months back, one of us in Battees took up an initiative to encourage people to write, and write by hand to post by snail mail. With the help of a lot of talented designers, it was hosted on the occasion of World Post Day on 9th of October, 2013 at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.
There’s in fact a whole story behind how it came about, but I don’t think I feel excited enough to type that all out again, so please do visit an older post about it if you’re interested. 🙂
http://shivanisaran.blogspot.in/2013/10/post-cards-and-postcards-on-world-post.html
Nevertheless, it turned out rather well when a whole bunch of students at NID realized that all you had to do was write a message, put a menial postage charge and drop it right across the road. It was that simple. (Of course, we made it simpler by providing the postcard and stamps to go along!)
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But the best part was that it made them realize who really are those few important people in their lives. They made the effort of finding their addresses; discretely or not! And they sat there and wrote out the cards (We did use a strategy to use against procrastinators, but to know that, you’ll have to read a little more!)
http://shivanisaran.blogspot.in/2013/10/a-happy-world-post-day-it-was.html
http://shivanisaran.blogspot.in/2013/11/the-second-time-with-battees.html