In the old days, your mail went something like this: personal letter, electric bill, L.L. Bean catalog.
Now, it goes like this: credit card offer, credit card offer, L.L. Bean catalog.
About the only thing that made walking to the mailbox in any way an anticipated experience, a hand-addressed envelope from a friend or relative, has largely vanished.
In the age of ubiquitous personal computers, BlackBerrys and PDAs — that's personal digital assistants for the technologically unfamiliar — such communications are most often digital and rarely on paper....