Handwritten vs. e-mail apology letter

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Originally Posted by biscuitmom

Since he's used to and apparently comfortable with email, there's no reason to think a handwritten letter would carry more weight. It's your words that matter. There's nothing inherently cowardly about email as compared to a postal letter.

Originally Posted by Liberty2011

I agree. Either way it is still the written word, so email should be fine.

Originally Posted by jim9251

Email and texting is very impersonal. A short handwritten note would be a lot classier.

Originally Posted by biscuitmom

How so? Whether email, text, typed, handwritten, a person is expressing his/her self via the written word.

Originally Posted by jim9251

How so? Because it's impersonal. There's something about a handwritten note that means more. Any boob can pound out a paragraph on the computer, and click send. But taking time to actually sit down compose a note by hand and mail it, shows thoughtfulness and class.

Jim9251, it seems to me your thinking is at least 20 years out-of-date, perhaps more. I grant you that writing a U.S. Mail letter is more trouble and more time-consuming, and so possibly the other party would be impressed by that extra effort. But after all this time and at a moment when the vast majority of people have adopted email as the normal mode of communication, it seems a bit retrograde to call it "impersonal". It is personal because the sender is choosing his or her words to communicate personally with the recipient. To quibble about whether the words are typed or written out by hand seems sort of silly. I side with Biscuitmom and Liberty. How old are you, Jim? I am 69.