"Correspondence is a leap of faith, and that is part of what makes it wonderful," says Rachel Syme, author of Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence. "You may never know if the person ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘There’s an unwritten rule of a letter, which is that whatever happens in this letter stays in the letter,’ said Rachel ...

As an inhabitant of planet Earth since 1983, I am just old enough to remember the days when mail was, by definition, something tangible that was delivered to a free-standing box planted at the edge of ...

The invention of the letter, as a means of conveying news and other kinds of information, is often attributed to a Persian queen, Atossa, who reigned 2,500 years ago. But none of her correspondence ...

The art of letter writing is not dead. Rachel Syme, a New Yorker staff writer, learned that during the early days of the pandemic. Longing for human connection, she asked her followers on social media ...

Tired of texting? Send your loved ones some snail mail instead. Rachel Syme, author of "Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence,"... The delightfully analog art of letter-writing The ...