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Snail Mail Lives!
Do you look forward to going to your mailbox each day? If not, The Letter Exchange can help! Whether you want to discuss contemporary events or brag about your cat, connect with other crafters or compare opinions on the latest bestseller, you'll find lots of great people to write to by subscribing to "LEX."
- The LEX Number system lets you remain anonymous until you choose to write directly to your new friends. (We don't print names and addresses.)
- Pen pal listings in 33 categories from Art to Daily Life to Literature to Religion to Writing help you find compatible penfriends.
- Ghost Letters let you write in character as historical or fictional people (or whatever!).
And more! We've featured Ronald Reagan's official pen pal, an elf who answers children's letters in Minneapolis, a letter written by Helen Keller at the age of 12, cartoons about pen palling from subscribers, quotes from famous letter writers of the past...you never know what will show up!
No prisoners or singles ads, just good conversation by snail mail.
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• Submit a listing for publication and wait for the letters to come!
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- $.50 per word (20 free words per issue included with subscription)
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- Letters to LEX and other submissions (articles, cartoons, artwork)—same as the listing deadlines.
Winter 2008 Issue
Winter 2008, #15
Contents
- Listings...Time to pick up your pen, and answer some of these fine people.
- Ghost Letters...Tired of being yourself? A world of let's-pretend awaits.
- The Post's Best Friends...Dogs and horses get the mail going.
- Letters—A Lifeline...60+ years of letter writing.
- Ahoy There...Sailors appreciate paper mail.
- Letters to LEX...Of flip-flops, bubbles, and planes.
- The World of Letters...Akkulānu wants a reply, circa 600 B.C.
- History of the World's Postal Service...Delivering the mail with dog sleds, stilts, and sun umbrellas.
- Listings Part 2...Don't put down that pen yet.
We forward letters to listings back to Issue 1, Summer 2003. Most listers are still looking for new correspondents!