Letter Writing: A guide to help you send more letters

As you may know, we've always sold these cute vintage decorative stamps, useful for scrapbooking but we are now proud to announce that, in a bid to encourage you to send more cards and letters, we now stock Royal Mail 1st and 2nd class stamps in both standard and large letter sizes here on our website. You can tag a stamp onto your order and we'll charge you not a penny more than if you had hiked to the post office to buy it.

As for a choice of card verses letter, it depends on the occasion. For specific events, such as birthdays and weddings then I think a card is the best choice. They’re often occasion specific, have greater decoration and design detail. Cards also make great little art prints for your wall long after the occasion. If you need some inspiration, you can see our wide range of cards here.

Do you wish you sent more letters? Is letter writing always at the top of your resolutions list but by March you've all but forgotten about them? Ahead of April, which is officially Letter Writing Month we are hoping to help actively encourage you to get back into letter writing and send more letters to your friends and family.

Most of us are all aware that sending letters and the act of letter writing itself is great for our mental health (we spoke about it in another recent blog you can see here) but what gets in our way? Searching for a stamp and finding a letterbox are for me, (prior to having a stationery company) - the main reasons the card never left my bag or was weeks later for a friends birthday.

When you have a little more to say you could invest in a letter writing set or simply pick n mix from our beautiful paper and envelope choices and build your own set. Letters are beautiful keep sake, they are timeless and tell a story of that period.

Another thing that can make all the difference is a good pen. A fountain pen - (for fellow right handed people) can feel amazing as it glides over the paper while the ink seamlessly scribes - our Kaweco collection are my personal favourite. For others, and particularly left handed people that struggle with ink pens might prefer a ball point or even a brush pen. Use whatever tool makes you feel comfortable so you can enjoy the therapeutic elements of writing. It’s a bit of a lost art in our digital world and like anything, requires practice to upkeep the skill. Further reasoning to dedicate time to write more letters.

If you are stuck for ideas, we’ve also been working on some handwritten ideas ahead of letter writing month - not just for you - but you can get the kids involved too. I urge you to take a read when you have a chance, it's full of some lovely thought provoking ideas. (You can find the blog here.)

So you've brought your lovely card or paper, you've written it out and you've even got the stamp - its signed, it's sealed, but not yet delivered. Assuming you are sending your letter, rather than gifting in person, you will need one of our best loved landmarks - a pillar-box-red postbox.

You can find your closest post box here, hopefully it's close enough to build into your commute so you dont have to go out of your way. We want to make this easier rather than harder after all!

Hopefully this has helped inspire and encourage you to put pen to paper. There is no better time to seek and embrace that human connection, because let’s face it - no one ever treasures a text message or an email.