Letter (message)

src: thumbs.dreamstime.com

Letter is a one-man written message to others relating to several issues of mutual concern. Letters have several types: Official Letters and Informal Letters. Letters contribute to the protection and conservation of literacy. Letters have been sent since ancient times and mentioned in Iliad . Both Herodotus and Thucydides mention the letters in their history.

Video Letter (message)

History of letter writing

Historically, letters have existed since the days of ancient India, ancient Egypt and the Sumerians, through Rome, Greece, and China, to this day. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, letters were used to educate themselves. Letters are a way to practice critical reading, self-expressive writing, polemical writing and also exchange ideas with like-minded people. For some, the letter is seen as a written show. For others, it is not only seen as a performance but also as a way of communication and a method of getting feedback. Letters are some books of the Bible. The correspondence archive, whether for personal, diplomatic, or business reasons, serves as a major source for historians. At certain times, the writing of wrong letters into art forms and literary genres, for example in Byzantine epistemology.

In the ancient world letters were written on a variety of different materials, including metal, tin, waxed wood tablets, pottery shards, animal skins, and papyrus. From Ovid, we learn that Acontius uses apples for his letter to Cydippe.

Because communication technology has diversified, the letters posted become less important as a form of routine communication. For example, telegraph developments drastically shorten the time it takes to transmit communications, sending them between distant points as electrical signals. In the telegraph office closest to the destination, the signal is converted back into paper on paper and sent to the recipient. The next step is telex which avoids the need for local delivery. Then followed by a fax machine (facsimile): letters can be electrically transferred from the sender to the receiver through the telephone network as an image. Today, the internet, through email, plays a major role in written communication; however, these email communications are generally not referred to as mail, but rather as email (or email) messages, messages or just emails or emails, with only the term "mail" generally reserved for communication on paper.

Maps Letter (message)

The study of letter writing

Due to the eternity and universality of letter writing, there are many letters and teaching materials (eg, manuals, as in medieval arctis) on letter writing throughout history. The study of letter writing usually involves the study of rhetoric and grammar.

Benefits of letters

Mail is a way to connect with someone who is not via the internet. Despite emails, letters are still popular, especially in business and for official communications. The letters have the following advantages via email:

• There is no special device required to receive mail, only postal address, and it can be read immediately upon receipt.
• An ad letter can reach any address in a particular area.
• A letter provides a physical record of communication directly, and in principle permanent, without the need for printing. Letters, especially those that have signatures and/or the organization's own notepaper, are more difficult to forge than emails and thus provide better evidence of the content of the communication.
• The letter in the sender's handwriting is more personal than email.
• If necessary, small physical objects can be flanked in envelopes with letters.
• Letters can not send malware or other malicious files that can be transmitted via email.
• Writing letters leads to the mastery of good writing techniques.
• Writing letters may provide an extension of face-to-face therapy meetings.

Mail delivery

Here is how the mail gets from the sender to the recipient:

1. The sender writes the letter and places it in an envelope where the recipient address is written on the front of the envelope. The sender ensures that the recipient's address includes Zip or Zip code (if applicable) and often includes the sender's address on the envelope.
2. The sender purchases the stamp and pastes it to the front of the envelope in the upper right corner on the front of the envelope. (For large quantities, stamps are not used: washing machines or other methods used to pay for postage.)
3. The sender places the letters in the mailbox.
4. The sending national service of the sending country (eg Royal Mail, UK; US Postal Service, USA; Australia Post in Australia; or Canada Post in Canada) empties the mailbox and retrieves all content to the regional sorting office./li>
5. The sorting office then sorts each letter by address and postcode and sends letters designated to a certain area to the post office of the area. Letters addressed to different areas are sent to the county's sorting office, for further sequencing.
6. The local post office sends a letter to their shipping personnel delivering them to the right address.

The whole process, depending on how far the sender is from the recipient, can take anywhere from one day to 3-4 weeks. International mail is sent by train and plane to other countries.

However, in 2008, Janet Barrett of England, received RSVP for a party invitation addressed to 'Percy Bateman', from 'Buffy', originally posted on November 29, 1919. It took 89 years to be sent by Royal Mail. However, the Royal Mail denied this, saying that it is impossible for a letter to remain in their system for a long time, because the checks are done regularly. By contrast, a letter dated 1919 may have been "a collector's item being shipped in another envelope and somehow out of the outer packaging".

Font type

There are different types of letters:

Gallery

See also

References

External links

• Definition of dictionary letters in Wiktionary
• handwrittenletters.com
• Mail as the source of history.
• First British Family Letter in Today's History .

Source of the article : Wikipedia