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World Letter Writing Day
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Where it comes from
World Letter Writing Day was started in 2014 by Richard Simpkin, an Australian author and photographer, after a decade spent writing to people he admired for his book Australian Legends and being moved by the handwritten replies. He chose 1 September and asked people to write one real letter a year.
How it's celebrated
People write a letter by hand to someone who does not expect it, post it, and often photograph it. Schools use the day for letter-writing lessons; stationery shops and postal services in Australia, the UK and Japan run promotions, and pen-pal communities swap addresses.
Did you know
The oldest surviving personal letters are clay tablets from Mesopotamia, some four thousand years old.
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