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Apr 13, 2013

"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart." --Phyllis Theroux

Snail Mail My Email

"Snail mail fascinates me," says Ivan Cash. "There's something warm and fuzzy about coming home and checking the mail and getting a letter from a friend. It's such an intimate for of communication, especially in today's world." But when he noticed his letter correspondence was dwindling as text and Facebook messages were growing, he decided something needed to change. The 25 year old, quit his job and embarked on a new project, Snail Mail My Email. The premise was simple: To give life to this dying form of communication, he would transcribe an email by hand and send it to the intended recipient, a service he was offering free of charge." But Cash didn't anticipate the exponential scale that followed. This interview in the Wall Street Journal shares more.