Since the times spent at wilderness camp in the deep woods, to the annual birthday check in the mail from that one estranged family member, and now two years spent in the sorority house, getting a hand-written letter makes my whole week.

I guarantee the USPS has millions of letters and packages being distributed every week, but within our generation, letters aren't being written as much as I think they should be.

My freshman and sophomore years of college my best friend, Rachel McCrory, who attends the University of Oklahoma, and I were each other's pen pals.

After explaining what snail mail is to McCrory, she told me what she thought about writing letters.

"I think it's awesome. Writing letters is so personal," said McCrory.

In high school, Rachel and I were told we have similar handwriting. It's so apparent in the letters written back and forth, although, she got onto me one time for how "squiggly" my writing was getting.

Pish posh.

McCrory feels that writing letters is an intimate activity. Putting words on paper is a little easier than saying somethings face-to-face.

"You can say things in letters that you can't say in person," she said.

There are so many things to enjoy about writing letters: picking out the stationary, writing names and addresses in fun fonts and colors and of course licking the envelope. It's a way to express oneself and be a little cultured.

While the US Postal service still has flaws after more than 200 years, my letter writing won't cease until I'm dead!