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Personal Notes

When a blog post about sending handwritten notes gets 26 comments, it tells me that the blogger has hit a nerve. Rudy’s post last week did just that. When I read it, an image came to mind of the letter being passed around the open office space at Trulia with people marveling at what a stamp actually looks like, and commenting on the penmanship of the writer. One person posted a comment on the blog saying he hadn’t sent a letter in over 10 years! Another commented on how difficult it is to get people’s actual mailing addresses. It got me thinking about the power of personalization in a transparent yet impersonal world.

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