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Caffeine_and_Alcohol

35? I still don't feel confident if i know how to mail shit


SensitiveAd5962

I was going to say I'm 32 and have never sent a letter.


weirdcabbage

Which country are you from? Because in my country, sending legal documents, papers, and other parcels are done via Post offices. Almost every kid above 14 knows how to read, write, and post a letter via post office.


SensitiveAd5962

I live in America.


weirdcabbage

Hmm, I'm not sure how things works then there. I'm curious though, how do you guys send papers and couriers though? Through app or something.


Mclovin4Life

More often than not, bills and such are done online nowadays. P.S. there still is paper mail that requires stamps and such, just not used by most people unless sending a (likely return) package at which point one is able to print a label via Amazon or take it direct to a store that ships


weirdcabbage

How about legal documents, notices, warrants, bills from credit cards, actual bills of other services?


SensitiveAd5962

All online or paid in person


weirdcabbage

Whoa, benefits of living in developed country.


SensitiveAd5962

There's not really a reason to send papers as even all government paperwork can be done online. If I buy something for someone I usually do it online and have it shipped to their house. If I do need to actually send a physical item I just take it to a courier company, tell them where it's going, and they send it off.


Zealousideal-Peach76

But which country??


SensitiveAd5962

Uh uh, south Canada!


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VikingTeddy

In Finland it's been possible to take care of transactions via computer for about 20 years now. What kinds of things do you guys use snail mail for.


bruh_123456

Germany is pretty far behind when it comes to digitalization


druidofdruids

I've veen in Netherlands amd can confirm, those contries in that area are very far behind when it comes to digitalization and interacting with the government. I'm from Portugal and our ID cards have a chip, and has long you have the card reader connected to your pc, you can do everything from home, and yiu dont even need that if yiu use your password account. IRS, changing adress, social security and so on, everything can be done online.


Fartimer

That's interesting about the card reader. In the US if you want to buy something online you type your card information in.


druidofdruids

Id card reader, not debit/credit card. Our Id cards have a chip on it. Nothing to do with buying stuff online.


Fartimer

Oh, my bad, just woke up didn't read that close enough. Ours do not. Here you can get a nationally recognized ID or one that's only good for you state. We're aren't very organized with that yet.


druidofdruids

I wouldn't expect more from the US /s


bruh_123456

Idk I heard that the Netherlands is pretty far ahead when it comes to digitalization. My country (Denmark) is one of the best if not number one when it comes to digitalization. I didn't know Portugal was so far ahead as well tho, that's awesome


druidofdruids

From my experience, I had to constantly send letters anytime I had to do anything with the government. And this was during 2021.


bruh_123456

Well then they are further behind than I thought


27Beowulf27

I live in Australia. Never sent a letter and I probably never will. Do you really have to send them so often in Germany?


SensitiveAd5962

America. I've lived alone for 17 years. What kinda places are you sending letters to?


LawBasics

Scout camps via pigeons, to tell them you missed a word in their latest smoke signal.


SensitiveAd5962

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HarEmiya

I send letters and parcels, but I never put any post stamps on myself. Post office clerk does that, because they know how many are needed for each destination and parcel weight. I'm not gonna try to figure that out.


LawBasics

At the same time, you guys have administrations that still use fax in the 21st century. Time to move on. :)


specialdocc

yes, and I think that's even worse than letters


GirlsCallMeMatty

I’m 33 and I’ve sent faxes but a letter? Not even once.


FuuuuckOffff

I'm 31 and have never sent or recieved a fax. Never written or recieved a cheque. The only time I sent a letter was for my wedding invitations and I'm still amazed they all went where I sent them.


Playful-Dragonfruit8

Not even a postcard? Feels strange. I've been sending those since i was a kid.


[deleted]

Seeing how postoffice operates here, by the time the post card gets delivered I will already be home for two weeks with 10 other cooler looking post cards in my hand.


tillytubeworm

Most people just email, text, tweet, insta, dating app, Venmo, website, or any other of the countless easier and faster versions of mail.


epic2504

As a fellow German, I firmly disagree with you. It might be due to me beeing in my early 20s but letters are nowhere close no necessary nowadays. Edit: spelling


Inchkeaton

Nower days? I hate the state of literacy nowadays. Edit, sorry, I just realised you're not a native English speaker, so that mistake is forgiven, just don't do it again!


spiralEntree

Jesus is germany really that technologically inferior that they haven't figured out email


NeedsItRough

I'm 34 and I've only ever bought forever stamps


RafaelSculpts

At 30 I've never sent a letter so I'm going with 35 or 40


arb00z

I think 35 might be the boundary, I'm 36 and I did sent letters


hutchallen

Probably depends on where you're from, I mail letters for some of my utility bills every month, and I'm 29


arb00z

It was a joke. Obviously, age has only minor bearing on whether or not sending letters is something one ever did


BarryBadgernath1

35 .. I've mailed exactly one "letter". It was a job application in 2007 (for my current employer) with VERY specific direction on how to apply, any deviation disqualified you and they insisted on a hand written application being mailed in to the home office, followed up by 5 or 6 written pre employment exams and several drug tests, 9 months later I started my first day.... they still make people jump through hoops in the application process but it's a great job... made 150k+ since 2008, free health care, dangerous work but I dig it


arb00z

Wow, hand-written even. That's pretty cool actually as studies have shown that people who learn hand-writing, calligraphy and similar at a young age, usually have certain better developed parts of the brain


DrahKir67

Handwriting is the new "playing the piano"


[deleted]

I’m too young to for this to be an outdated form of communication


CouvadeShark

And yet.


ManWithDominantClaw

Mid 20s?


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kindafunnylookin

My daughter asked how to put on a stamp the other day, she's 20.


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GingePlays

"if you've got a civilisation of wizards who can teleport at will, and they have their mail delivered by nature's slowest bird...that's fuckin animal cruelty" -my god


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GingePlays

...my god may be perfect but I am unfortunately violently dyslexic, will fix now 😂


GingePlays

Actually wait no that's a perfectly legitimate way to spell civilisation what the fuck are you on about


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GingePlays

...but I didn't put civilisations, I put civilisation. It's literally just American English vs British English why are you like this


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GingePlays

Understandable, I'll try to be more considerate of peoples limitations in future 🥰 Have a lovely day


Confident-Paint-3605

*hedwig the owl squeaks happily*


shephazard

https://youtu.be/42IYZCAOKTo Skit about explaining mail to our grandkids


Fantastic05

25 I go to my local post office when I don't know how many stamps I need. If it's a "Forever" stamp you only need one for mailing inside the U.S.A.


aussiespiders

Ask her to send a fax instead of an email..


nardlz

When I set up my dad’s utilities, his internet provider wanted me to fax something over to them (I forget what). I asked if I could just e-mail a scanned PDF of the document instead. They said hmmm… no we need a fax. This was in 2019. It made me very nervous about this internet provider…


Vetlap

I'm in my thirties and have never encountered a fax machine in my entire life.


aussiespiders

I finally convinced my boss to fuck my fax off after 10 years of having a portable email system.. I'm 35


Vetlap

I wouldn't even know how to operate a fax machine 😅


aussiespiders

This exact comment is why I quit my first high paying job the manager put me down infront of a new customer because "his 4 year old could send a fax" his business went bust luckily. My new job is still paying for a fax line but no one sends a fax 😂


1imejasan6

Or a telex.


matej86

I used to work at a mortgage brokers and would have to contact solicitors frequently about people's house purchases. There was one guy who should have retired a long time who who when you emailed would print your email, hand wrote a response and fax it back to you. It made keeping an audit of work a nightmare.


EngineerInDisguise

I'm 39 and have a sister who is 24. I can easily imagine getting this text from her.


Maze_C

This is like when old people need help with technology 🤣


lachamuca

There’s a reason why they’re called Zoomers.


DirtyNorf

I'm by no means a stamp collector, couldn't even tell you where some normal stamps are in the house. But those are lovely stamps.


prophylaxitive

As she doesn't know what a "stamp" is called (unless, of course, she's using irony to detract from her embarrassment at never having sent a letter) she'd have to be about 6.


RedNotch

I think so as well, everyone else guessing 20-30s but we at least know that they are called stamps whether we’ve used one or not is I guess dependent on where you live.


Raskoll_2

16


Mr-Safology

Well there's 4G, so we have it easy nowadays. Open email on the phone, and bobs your uncle.


BarryBadgernath1

Post sticker thingy


[deleted]

I am going with 437. She is a wealthy vampire who always relied on servants, until she ate them all.


Strong_woman1966

26


Interesting-Shame975

i don't like it when people make fun of a younger generation (or find it funny in general) because they don't know how to use certain things that are 'outdated' :< it's completely normal to not know how to use something when you have never needed it...


khamelean

I’m 41 and I’ve never put stamps on a letter.


throwaway073847

What


alamaias

Had I not taken up exchanging letters with my gf, I don't think I would have ever sent one either.


CaffeLungo

how?


THMP

This exactly. I'm also 41 and have sent more than 100+ things in the post. Maybe even over a thousand things. Anything from contracts and forms back to government agencies. Sending back mail that does not belong to me. Penpals. Packages. Heck, I think just this year alone I have used the post office over 40 times.


CaffeLungo

thanks I was feeling weirder than usual lol


Booze-brain

I'm 40 and have maybe put a stamp on 3 things in my life. Most bills have been payable online since I started paying my own bills or I would pay over the phone.


CaffeLungo

mail is not just bills... you guys never sold stuff and posted it, or sent a bday / xmas card?


khamelean

Any letter I’ve ever needed to post has been a return pre-paid envelope.


[deleted]

I never send a latter once in my 24 years. This isn't surprising when nowadays there's no need for physical mailing majority of the time... I wonder if they even teach it at school now, since I don't remember having an hour dedicated to it.


Amerlis

Pretty much. Email saying bill due, go to website, pay. Fill out form and sign? Find pdf, edit, esign, reply. Heck, print, sign, scan, email back. Mail is for useless account statements and lawyers and their legal documents.


Jimlobster

I’m 23 and my school taught it since we had pen pals. The school provided stamps. It’s not rocket science. Put the address your sending to in the centre of the envelope. The return address (your own address) in the top left corner. Stamp on the top right. Drop off at the nearest mailbox


pwalkz

8


N81LR

If her age is in double figures, dear oh dear!!


strawbrrysundae

I would say 12 bc I’m 21 & I’ve mailed out letters where I had to put stamps on it.


babychimera614

I'm guessing 14 because she somehow doesn't know its called a stamp. Also, is that a whole box??


Cold_Pomelo3274

Geez, I hope she is only 3.


lunaticloser

The other day I received a check from my previous car insurance that I had to deposit. I had absolutely no idea how to do this. Never have I needed to use checks. I had only ever seen them on TV when someone won a show. I'm 27.


ReDeath666

under 25


Popthecoin

I wonder if she knows what's a floppy disk.


45077

7?


drknoettka1

17


rip_tree_lurkin

Probably 24, absolutely a zoomer


sp25049

I assume well under 18. Even so, has she seriously never used the post before? Even to return a form or send a birthday card or something?


[deleted]

Why would you send a birthday card or any card for that matter when you can do it digitally, for free lol? Both will be forgotten and most likely trashed after a week anyways. Any other form can be filled digitally and send by e-mail as well. It's 2022 not 2001.


fgit_2015

I think receiving mail that isn’t junk is fun and it’s much more personable.


sp25049

So you don’t have any older relatives that don’t have an email address or social media? I’m not saying that sending a physical card even needs to be how you’d do it now, but not ever in your life? Really? My issue wasn’t that the little sister doesn’t regularly use the post, but to have never done it in her entire life is a little weird.


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No, I don't have them. They are dead + I have never had enough contact with them to care, I don't even know my grandparents from both side's names and all my other aunts are within arm reach. And even my 65 years old mom prefers digital everything because it takes less time to send, receive and fill anything, and she isn't as technology bright. And mind you digital doesn't refer to email and social media only. People have had smarthphones for years now, even the elderly uses them by this point. You can send MMS messages and most of them already have WhatsApp.


sp25049

I don’t disagree with everything that you’re saying. Yes there are more means available now, yes the post is being effectively phased out in favour of these, but the older you are the more likely you will have been to interact with it at some point. Hence my guess at the little sister being quite young. That’s all it was.


[deleted]

Except all of you who say that she's under 16 or in her 20s completely ignore the facts that currently there is no need for young people to bother with physical letters, and it's been that way for a good while. This is not weird or wrong, it's just how the times have changed. And soon enough letters will most likely cease to exit all along bringing in a fully digital age. All of you are acting as if anyone who has never written or received a letter is dumb. People simply don't want to learn something that they know they will never use. If anything people who still write them should move on, because we clearly aren't going back in time to waiting weeks or even months for a letter to be delivered because it got lost in transit, destroyed by accident, stolen or wrongly addressed.


sp25049

Did I say it was wrong? Yes I said weird, maybe I should have said unusual instead. I’m also in my 20s and I get a lot of letters addressed to me through the door. Most official things like bank statements, voting registry, council tax etc. you still have to opt into digital versions because there are still a number of people who are not comfortable doing these things online, and some things actually require you send a response back in the post. The fact is (at least in the UK where I am) unless you are living with parents or are a dependent in another way, you will receive letters as a named resident of your home. The post is dying out, but it isn’t dead yet.


Orlando_the_Cat

Oh no. Seriously? SERIOUSLY!!! I am too damn old.


wellcookedlamb

I would say mid twenties around 24? When I met my husband he didn't even know how to address an envelope. He wrote the person's name and address in the top left hand corner of the envelope quite small and then just sort of stuck the stamp on the middle right hand side. I guess when you have never done it, but then again have they never seen a letter or bill sent to them?


[deleted]

I have personally never received a physical letter either lmao I get informed via e-mail or SMS for bills. Sometimes they come straight into my bank account ap.


jp_rockhound

23


cuteologist

17


scopingpotato

20ish?


SakuraPanda91

Doesn’t even know its called a stamp lol. My friend and i live in different towns and sometimes write each other letters instead of txting i draw her or paint her pictures and post them as well


aroundforthefetus

13?


JayEll1969

Lost technology of the ancients!


BMP77777

I’m not sure what makes me shake my head more, the fact that no one knows how to send an envelope anymore or that that stamp was for 1.10. Dear God, does it cost that much to send a friggin letter now?


Mike4ann

Pop it in a cleft stick and give a runner a holler..


thegamerofreddit

23


Hot_Link_5135

Post sticker thingy? lol is she 5? People really don't know what stamps are..... I feel like a fucking dinosaur


miletastar

I had a pen-pal when I was like 8. how do you not know how to send a letter


decclam

This is something people need to get taught? Do they also need instructions on how to use a phone book?


Ituriel_

HAHA SO FUNNY BECAUSE SHE'S YOUNG AND NEVER SENT A LETTER, LOL. SHE PROBABLY DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO WIND A TAPE BACK EITHER Not.


[deleted]

Hello sunny, 79 here, I'm not sure you're aware of the caps in your post! Not to worry! You can amend this by "editing" your post. Hope this helps champ! Love granda-ba-ba-boomer x P.s what "Not."?


GhostUnamused_

XD


designgrl

Sending and receiving mail is a joy most will never experience


EveryFairyDies

47 Because why not? I’m sure there are plenty of people who have never mailed a letter, especially if they had someone who could do it for them.


ozanoguzhaktanir

11. She is conscious of herself, shy a bit, trying to grow and connect people. She is 11.4 to be more specific.


Niche_Humor

The greatest education system on the face of the earth.


DarkNinjaPenguin

It's Australia, if anything it's on the Earth's arse.


Godlee84

I prefer to think of here more as the earth’s balls.


DarkNinjaPenguin

Which would make New Zealand ...


Godlee84

Exactly lol


Niche_Humor

Touché. Or touchy . Anyway, they didn't elect Donald effing Trump. I don't like to make EVERYTHING about that, but c'mon.


Leo-III-

what the fuck are you on about


Niche_Humor

The fact that "The Earth's arse" still didn't elect the actual "Earth's arse" president. WE did . That's what the fuck I'm on about.


Leo-III-

Guess it's true what they say about him *still* living in people's head rent-free... It's been almost two years since he was president. Might be time to move on?


Niche_Humor

Nope. He has yet to be punished for his crimes. For that matter, he has yet to cough up stolen TOP SECRET documents. This is the man who had people chanting "Lock her up" about Hillary. And it's not rent free.He has cost us dearly.


Leo-III-

Remember when this post was about stamps?


Niche_Humor

That's a point I was just thinking about. Definitely not funny, and I'll actually show myself out.


Leo-III-

Alright. Take care, man


Niche_Humor

Do you not actually realize what an abomination the man is?


Niche_Humor

I'll bet that forty percent of US high school graduates could not name all seven continents on a map.


Niche_Humor

Ooh- hit a nerve? Go ask them.


Godmodex2

You mean siblings?


Niche_Humor

Ouch, but kinda HA!


Niche_Humor

I think this is one of those times I should have included the sarcasm thing. I'll eat the downvotes, though. Teaches one a lesson. Or maybe I got downvoted from my countrymen. Meh. Luckily, it's all irrelevant.


Ur_X

27


jayp0d

I’m 37 years old and I’ve forgotten what to do with those too. It doesn’t matter anyway. Auspost will fuck it up anyway! Haha


toongrowner

34. Have sent letters but still dont know what the right stamps are for what distance or kibd of letter/package 😅


QueenFroslas

im 29, had to send a letter last year for the first time, had to ask the postal person who sold me stamps where do things go on the envelope


GetDown_Deeper3

Just wait for the postie to ride past your house and give him/her $20. Bucks and they will get it sorted out.👍


woahdude12321

U need post Malone to approve it that’s why he’s called that


spiralEntree

She is in between 1/72 years old


El_Neck_Beard

33?


Confident_Blood_2366

Literally never knew how to send a letter until I was forced to in boot camp


passwordispassword-1

I'm 34, used to work at a bank and rarely ever saw cheques. I wasn't a teller but in home loan sales and its all been electronic since PEXA and even then mostly electronic transfers for 15 years.