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Please not just me on this one
Nov. 8th, 2007 06:38 pmAn editor colleague at my newspaper is looking for reporting interns and got an applicant who's a senior at a local college. They spoke, and the editor was interested enough to ask for her resume. For some reason, the candidate felt the need to snail mail her the documents.
Or would have, if she hadn't put her own address in the Send box and the editor's in the upper left. Additionally, she left a message for the editor saying the "vanilla envelope" was in the mail.
Now, I'm all for minimizing our paper usage - the world needs its trees. But I'm only about three years older than this woman, and the art of addressing an envelope isn't something I've found useless yet. But eBay and Amazon address our packages for us, so unless you're buying a gift locally or making it, when do you really send anything anymore? Has the post office really become superfluous save for junk mail and bills (not even that, really, with online banking)?
It's just... I'm only 25, but right at this moment feel very, very dated.
Or would have, if she hadn't put her own address in the Send box and the editor's in the upper left. Additionally, she left a message for the editor saying the "vanilla envelope" was in the mail.
Now, I'm all for minimizing our paper usage - the world needs its trees. But I'm only about three years older than this woman, and the art of addressing an envelope isn't something I've found useless yet. But eBay and Amazon address our packages for us, so unless you're buying a gift locally or making it, when do you really send anything anymore? Has the post office really become superfluous save for junk mail and bills (not even that, really, with online banking)?
It's just... I'm only 25, but right at this moment feel very, very dated.
