(OC) This little coincidence made me smile more than I expected

(OC) This little coincidence made me smile more than I expected

Hi everyone :)

I started a snail mail club back in April as a creative side project. By June I had just two subscribers.

One of them is a mum, and she told me this week something that made me smile. Her four-year-old daughter received her first letter on Sunday. It was written as if from a shy hedgehog living in a hedge, inviting her to write back to the woodland with help from a bee who collects the post.

That morning, the little girl wrote her own letter thanking the woodland for the trees, plants and animals, then went into the garden and “posted” it into the trees.

Later that day, another letter arrived from the hedgehog… talking about having his first ever tea party with the bee. Apparently she’d spent the morning having a tea party with her stuffed animals.

Just one of those small moments that makes you stop and smile.

u/Pretend-Pop3836 — 20 hours ago
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This response to my kids snail mail club made me cry

I started a snail mail club in April. I have maybe 2 subscribers now by June.

This week one of them, a mum, wrote to tell me her four-year-old daughter received her first letter on Sunday. It's a letter from a shy hedgehog called Prickly (I write a children's version too, where the letters come from a fictional hedgehog in a hawthorn hedge).

In the letter, Prickly invites her to write back to him, to the woodland, with the help of a bee called Buzzy who fetches the post.

The mum told me that on Sunday morning, her daughter sat and wrote a letter to the woodland, thanking it for the trees and the plants and the animals. They walked out to their garden (which backs onto woodland) and "posted" it into the trees.

That same afternoon, Prickly's letter arrived. The kid had spent the morning having a tea party with her stuffed animals. And the letter from Prickly was all about him having his first ever tea party with the bee.

Coincidences like this are the whole reason I do snail mail. Anyway, I just wanted to share with people who would understand.

Snail mail still does something nothing else can!

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u/Pretend-Pop3836 — 5 days ago
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I sent my first ever kids snail mail and this response made me cry

I started a snail mail club in April. I have maybe 2 subscribers now by June.

This week one of them, a mum, wrote to tell me her four-year-old daughter received her first letter on Sunday. It's a letter from a shy hedgehog called Prickly (I write a children's version too, where the letters come from a fictional hedgehog in a hawthorn hedge).

In the letter, Prickly invites her to write back to him, to the woodland, with the help of a bee called Buzzy who fetches the post.

The mum told me that on Sunday morning, her daughter sat and wrote a letter to the woodland, thanking it for the trees and the plants and the animals. They walked out to their garden (which backs onto woodland) and "posted" it into the trees.

That same afternoon, Prickly's letter arrived. The kid had spent the morning having a tea party with her stuffed animals. And the letter from Prickly was all about him having his first ever tea party with the bee.

Coincidences like this are the whole reason I do snail mail. Anyway, I just wanted to share with people who would understand.

Snail mail still does something nothing else can!

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u/Pretend-Pop3836 — 5 days ago
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I sent my first kids snail mail and the response made me cry

I started a snail mail club in April. I have maybe 2 subscribers now by June.

This week one of them, a mum, wrote to tell me her four-year-old daughter received her first letter on Sunday. It's a letter from a shy hedgehog called Prickly (I write a children's version too, where the letters come from a fictional hedgehog in a hawthorn hedge).

In the letter, Prickly invites her to write back to him, to the woodland, with the help of a bee called Buzzy who fetches the post.

The mum told me that on Sunday morning, her daughter sat and wrote a letter to the woodland, thanking it for the trees and the plants and the animals. They walked out to their garden (which backs onto woodland) and "posted" it into the trees.

That same afternoon, Prickly's letter arrived. The kid had spent the morning having a tea party with her stuffed animals. And the letter from Prickly was all about him having his first ever tea party with the bee.

Coincidences like this are the whole reason I do snail mail. Anyway, I just wanted to share with people who would understand.

Snail mail still does something nothing else can!

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u/Pretend-Pop3836 — 5 days ago

I started a snail mail club for young children and I got this feedback that made me cry

I started a snail mail club in April. I have maybe 2 subscribers now by June.

This week one of them, a mum, wrote to tell me her four-year-old daughter received her first letter on Sunday. It's a letter from a shy hedgehog called Prickly (I write a children's version too, where the letters come from a fictional hedgehog in a hawthorn hedge).

In the letter, Prickly invites her to write back to him, to the woodland, with the help of a bee called Buzzy who fetches the post.

The mum told me that on Sunday morning, her daughter sat and wrote a letter to the woodland, thanking it for the trees and the plants and the animals. They walked out to their garden (which backs onto woodland) and "posted" it into the trees.

That same afternoon, Prickly's letter arrived. The kid had spent the morning having a tea party with her stuffed animals. And the letter from Prickly was all about him having his first ever tea party with the bee.

Coincidences like this are the whole reason I do snail mail. Anyway, I just wanted to share with people who would understand.

Snail mail still does something nothing else can!

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u/Pretend-Pop3836 — 5 days ago
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A kid sent a letter back to the woodland after receiving my snail mail and I cried.

I started a tiny snail mail business in April. I have maybe 2 subscribers now by June.

This week one of them, a mum, wrote to tell me her four-year-old daughter received her first letter on Sunday.
It's a letter from a shy hedgehog called Prickly (I write a children's version too, where the letters come from a fictional hedgehog in a hawthorn hedge).

In the letter, Prickly invites her to write back to him, to the woodland, with the help of a bee called Buzzy who fetches the post.

The mum told me that on Sunday morning, her daughter sat and wrote a letter to the woodland, thanking it for the trees and the plants and the animals. They walked out to their garden (which backs onto woodland) and "posted" it into the trees.

That same afternoon, Prickly's letter arrived. The kid had spent the morning having a tea party with her stuffed animals. And the letter from Prickly was all about him having his first ever tea party with the bee.

Coincidences like this are the whole reason I do snail mail.

I am always looking for advice on what to put in these letters and how to market myself better.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

You can find me on socials @dearlittlethingletters and on my website dearlittlething.com.

Anyway, I just wanted to share with people who would understand.
Snail mail still does something nothing else can.

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u/Pretend-Pop3836 — 6 days ago

A four-year-old wrote a letter to the woodland after her first snail mail subscription, and now I'm crying

I started a tiny snail mail business in April.

I have maybe 2 subscribers now by June.

This week one of them, a mum, wrote to tell me her four-year-old daughter

received her first letter on Sunday.

It's a letter from a shy hedgehog called Prickly (I write a children's version too,

where the letters come from a fictional hedgehog in a hawthorn hedge).

In the letter, Prickly invites her to write back to him, to the

woodland, with the help of a bee called Buzzy who fetches the

post.

The mum told me that on Sunday morning, her daughter sat and wrote

a letter to the woodland, thanking it for the trees and the plants

and the animals. They walked out to their garden (which backs onto

woodland) and "posted" it into the trees.

That same afternoon, Prickly's letter arrived. The kid had spent

the morning having a tea party with her stuffed animals. And the

letter from Prickly was all about him having his first ever tea

party with the bee.

Coincidences like this are the whole reason I do snail mail.

Anyway, I just wanted to share with people who would understand.

Snail mail still does something nothing else can.

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u/Pretend-Pop3836 — 6 days ago