Why don’t you get mail from me?
I enjoy sending mail. Yes, physical mail, via the United States Postal Service. Postcards, letters, little booklets or artsy fartsy projects I make. It’s mostly pointless, meaningless nonsense, or rambling run-on sentences. There’s just something I love about people I like or care about receiving something tangible from me, even if I’m not really saying much. In this era of our culture, when all communication is electronic and all looks alike and is compressed and abbreviated and utilitarian, I get a kick out of harkening back to an older time, and connecting on a different level.
Over the years, I’ve built up a sizeable “mailing list” of freinds and family members who I mail these assorted missives to. Looking over it, it comprises a fantastic cross-section of my life. Folks from all eras of my past, as well as my present, and from a fantastic geographic array are represented. So I ask you, dear reader, why the hell don’t you get mail from me?
It comes sporadically. Sometimes you might get one piece of mail from me a year, sometimes two things in one week. It depends very much upon my whimsy. But if you’re reading this, chances are I wouldn’t mind sending you some thoughts or artistic claptrap occasionally. You should probably give me your address.
Leave your address in the comments here (you don’t have to register to comment on this blog), or if you’re not comfortable with doing that, send me a Facebook message or e-mail me at sdellinger1978@gmail.com, or if you have my cell number you can text it to me. I mean really, who doesn’t want mail?
Notes From the Fire 
January 30, 2013 at 3:57 PM
speaking of addresses, i need yours. i have something to mail you. i’ve had it for at least two years now, and have somehow failed to mail it to you. it’s currently living in my office, in a wrapper with ‘return to sender’ scrawled on it. b/c the post office is too complicated for me, i think.
January 30, 2013 at 3:59 PM
haha ok we’ll try this again! 1 Gaudet Ct., Mantua, NJ 08051…maybe get the wife to help :)
January 30, 2013 at 8:52 PM
haha, i did get her help. to no avail. i made an error transcribing your address onto the package, i think. also, ZIP codes starting with a 0…they don’t look right to me.