# What kind of letters do you like to get? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 27, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-letters-do-you-like-to-get/78430 "2001-08-27T23:02:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-letters-do-you-like-to-get/78430/1 "2001-08-27T23:02:16Z")
Lately, I’ve been abandoning e-mail for more traditional forms of contact, and have found that different people seem to be fairly tilted in what sort of letters they prefer to get. I myself write longer letters, usually about what’s been going on and my feelings at the moment (no, I have no SO, this is just friends), almost like a journal, and I wondered what sorts of personal letters other people enjoy recieving and sending… I hope that all that stationairy I bought never goes to waste. =p ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-letters-do-you-like-to-get/78430/2 "2001-08-27T23:41:27Z")
I like getting letters from Gunslinger, even though there’s never really anything of great importance in my letters either to or from him. I just like knowing he spent the time to sit and write. He’s really the only person I ever get letters from. I write letters in kind of a journalistic style, the happenings of the [time since I last wrote] and whatever else pops into my head. I don’t write epistles. 🙂 Although they do get kinda long. That’s the kind I like getting, too. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-letters-do-you-like-to-get/78430/3 "2001-08-28T00:07:59Z")
Any. ---
**Author:** ![g8rguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@g8rguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/g8rguy)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-letters-do-you-like-to-get/78430/4 "2001-08-28T00:35:42Z")
Eh, it depends.When I’m sending 'em, it kind of depends on my mood when I start writing. Sometimes I go with the journal style (this is what’s up, this is how I feel about it, etc etc etc), and sometimes I go more for story telling or something like that (the last letter I wrote was a 6 page diatribe about why I think airports are the work of the devil). I have this vague suspicion that most of my letters make very little sense. Getting a letter is always nice, no matter how inane it is. Oh, except if it’s from my mom, because I can never read those. It’s nice to know she took the time to sit and write, but I always have to have someone else interpret them for me, and that’s really quite embarassing. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![celestina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@celestina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/celestina)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-letters-do-you-like-to-get/78430/5 "2001-08-28T00:43:53Z")
I LOVE sending and receiving letters, either written and sent snail mail, or via email. It takes me no time at all to dash off a letter. I like receiving and sending substantive letters that recount the things that have happened to my friends and me or just interesting people, places, or things we’ve seen. I just get a big ol’ GRIN on my face when I hear from my friends. 🙂 Oh, and g8rguy, I think my letters may be a little stream-of-consciousness-y too. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-letters-do-you-like-to-get/78430/6 "2001-08-28T00:46:46Z")
If certain people who promised to write me letters WOULD write me letters, then they would get replies composed in my usual stream-of-consciousness style. I like letters of all kinds. Love letters and funny letters are the best. If you’re from a government agency or a credit card company, I don’t have a mailbox. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![urban1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d07c76/32.png) [@urban1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-letters-do-you-like-to-get/78430/7 "2001-08-28T02:25:18Z")
Hmmmmm. The only letters I get say: Urban1 Or Current resident Or those which come in window envelopes. Is there any other kind? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-letters-do-you-like-to-get/78430/8 "2001-08-28T12:59:40Z")
I like letter that are accompanied by a check. ---
**Author:** ![Ariadne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@Ariadne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ariadne)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-letters-do-you-like-to-get/78430/9 "2001-08-28T13:19:18Z")
My aunt sends me letters with stickers and bookmarks. I agree though that checks are good too. My boyfriend’s parents send him a package every few weeks witha letter from them, all the letters he’s received at their address, articles his dad thinks he’d be interested in, and small toys and candy. They also mail him a Cheesecake Factory cake on his birthday. I suggested to my mom that she mail me a cake or some cookies and she laughed. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Tisme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@Tisme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tisme)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-letters-do-you-like-to-get/78430/10 "2001-08-28T13:21:36Z")
Any letter that is not a bill is a good letter.