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I had to actually type a letter out today.  It was the first "letter" I have typed in a very long time.  I was just wondering if it was our company/my boss or is that normal?  I am tending to think it is job specific and others must still type and send snail mail all the time.  I figured I would ask here to appease my sense of curiosity!  With email, voice mail, memo's, inter-office routing slips, how often do you actually send out a formal letter with a stamp!  (We do send out tons of mail, but those are invoices, bills, collections, not "letter" type mail).

I  send out formal letters a few times a year.  It used to be much more but email has taken over.  I think email is easier to organize, there can be a copy on the system and you dont have to keep a hard copy that can get lost, you can just do a search, easy to forward and share... I like email much better myself.

It depends on the content of the letter and whether it needs to have an actual signature as opposed to an electronic one.

Not everything is accepted via email from a legal point of view.

I do occasionally send them out but it's a very rare occurrence. We hardly ever get mail in either (woo hoo).

I would say about a minimum of 20 formal letters per day sent by snail mail, although they are also sent by fax, scanned and emailed and/or by DX (document xchange used in the legal world in UK for those who have not heard of it!).

That is company wide, and is the same for those we deal with!

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I'd guess to about 20 or so letters a month on average.  My current boss is a great one for email but it does depend so much on the person.  Boss before last was a great letter writer - probably a 100 or so a month.  But as times are changing, more and more goes via email.  As Gee said, if it needs a hard copy, original signature, letter is the only way, even using pdf wouldn't be acceptable.

We do send quite a bit of snail mail with stamps, but they are usually mail merges for things like invitations to events or appeals.  We deal with a number of older alumni and many, while internet savvy, just prefer an actual letter -- particularly with thank you notes and after-visit correspondence.  It's what they grew up with.

We also have many documents that need an actual physical signature - but they get sent by UPS or FedEx so they can be tracked.

Meant to add that, now that I'm in my 40s and have been wearing corrective lenses since I was a child, I'm starting to find it physically tiresome to read large amounts of text from a screen.  There are times I'd just REALLY prefer paper.

I think I agree with you - but at least you can make the text larger or smaller on a screen!  Too often recently in dim restaurants, I've been struggling to read the menu and bringing it closer to or further away from the eyes helps not one jot!