
Snail mail has become a despised media. While I still held long conversations at a distance written with ink on paper, with latency measured in weeks and not in milliseconds, that’s basically history now. Snail mail is where invoices are received. Ocassionally, a joyous invitation finds its way into my mailbox… But its regular use has been almost completely abandoned. Which probably makes it more striking and more of a surprise to receive a very short note of a good friend living far away just stating a very warm greeting. (of course, the paper was not GPG-signed, but I’ll have...