I really can't remember the last time I wrote a handwritten letter, haha.

In an era where we chat on smartphones, send messages via email, and communicate through social media, the moments of writing by hand have faded into distant memories.

In the past, we would hand letters to friends living far away, write on the last pages of each other's albums on graduation day, and express our fluttering feelings on beautiful stationery when we started dating.

However, now the act of writing a handwritten letter feels like a special event. It may not be that the reason for writing letters has disappeared from our daily lives, but rather that there is no longer a need to choose a slower method.

When you think about it, handwritten letters inherently carry time. If you make a mistake while writing, you have to rewrite it, and as you correct each line, your thoughts are organized as well.

From the moment you choose the paper and pick up the pen, the message "I care about this person" is naturally conveyed. Thus, a letter ultimately becomes a process of sending 'effort' and 'sincerity' rather than just words, and the recipient feels that weight, which is why it is cherished for a long time.

These days, letters have almost become events, appearing only on birthdays, anniversaries, military enlistments, and weddings. Some people search for phrases like 'touching letter phrases' before writing a handwritten letter, spending a long time trying to imitate beautiful handwriting.

It has transformed from something you write anytime to a record left only on "truly meaningful days." While some may find this change regrettable, on the other hand, it could mean that handwritten letters are becoming increasingly special gifts.

As the occasions for writing letters have decreased, the power of a single letter has grown stronger. When conveying feelings to someone, there are emotions that cannot be expressed through messages, and in those moments, a handwritten letter becomes the final choice. Perhaps it resonates more deeply because it conveys feelings in a slow manner in a fast-paced world.

We may not remember the exact last moment we wrote a letter. However, the smell of the paper, the careful movement of the pen tip as we wrote, and the memory of awkwardly smiling at crooked letters suddenly come to mind in our daily lives.

Ultimately, I think a handwritten letter is a trace of a way to directly convey feelings, not just paper. If the moment comes when we decide to write a letter to someone again, we will still take out a piece of paper with the same feelings.

However, these days, people hardly write letters, and the reason postal workers are still busy is that there are far more things being sent instead of letters. While letters used to be the center of postal work, now bills, various documents, and packages have completely taken their place.

With the explosive increase in online orders, people receive one or two packages and mail almost every week. Things like mobile phone bills, credit card notices, bank documents, and government mail are still often sent in paper form, even with the rise of electronic documents. Especially for documents with legal validity, 'physically delivered mail' remains the standard, so the role of postal workers has not diminished.

In the end, while people do not write letters, the work of postal workers continues to be maintained.