Letter

A letter is a written message from one party to another. Letters are usually intended to be received by someone far away. Before widespread availability of typewriters and computers, letters were always written by hand. Nowadays, letters are only widely used by companies who send out letters to large numbers of people, who may not have access to the internet for e-mail. The term letter is sometimes used for e-mail messages with a formal letter-like format.

The letter-delivering process

Here is how a letter gets from the sender to the recipient:

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• Sender writes letter and buys a stamp, which he places on the front of the envelope.
• Sender puts his letter in a postbox and does nothing more.
• The National Postal Service for the sender's country (e.g. the Royal Mail in the UK or the US Postal Service in the US) empties the letterbox and takes all the contents to the regional sorting office
• The sorting office then sort each letter by address and postcode, and deliver the letters belonging to a particular area to that area's post office. Letters belonging to a different region are sent to that region's sorting office, to be sorted further.
• The local post office dispatches their letters to their postmen who deliver them to the appropriate houses.

This whole process, depending on how for away the sender / recipient are, takes about 2-3 days. International mail is sent via trains and planes to other countries.

Related Topics:
Trains - Planes

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