Blog > Month of Letters + Mail Carrier Appreciation Day! (repost)
February is a busy month in the mail calendar, and we can’t wait for it to start! Are you ready?

We love a good mail challenge around here, and since February is the Month of Letters, it is time to dust off all that special stationery and put pen to paper! It’s the perfect opportunity for reconnecting with family and friends in these socially-distanced times, sending a Valentine card to your special someone, saying thank you to the helpful people in your life… or simply surprising strangers across the world with postcards! 😉
The rules of the Month of Letters challenge are simple:
- Mail at least one item through the post every day it runs. Write a postcard, a letter, send a picture or a cutting from a newspaper… anything goes!
- Write back to everyone who writes to you. This can count as one of your mailed items.
That’s it! The challenge started back in 2012, after American writer Mary Robinette Kowal decided it was time for a break from the internet. She spent a month offline, and asked her friends to communicate with her through letters. The results were relaxing and intimate, so she decided to invite others to join, sparking a yearly flurry of correspondence.
If you’re planning to join this year, you’re welcome to share your progress with us on this forum topic.

Another happy mail-related event coming up is Mail Carrier Appreciation Day, which happens every year on February 4th. This is the day to celebrate our trusty mail carriers, who make it possible for this hobby to exist by delivering all our postcards!
The date falls on a Thursday this year, so make sure to prepare something nice for your mail carrier and give them a smile — for instance, pour your gratitude into a thank you note that you’ll deliver (or affix to your mailbox) for them to discover on their rounds. I’m sure it’ll be the highlight of their day week!
If you can, take a photo of what you did to celebrate this special day, and share a link to it in the comments! 😊

Tags: letters, mail-delivery, mail-project, postal-workers
26 comments so far
On February 4th I will be sure to tape a "thank you" postcard of appreciation to them/
It is going to be so! much FuN!!!!
Probably soon I'll go to the post office to deal with this.
And I tell my postman and sometimes postwoman quite often how much I appreciate their work!!!
In our area they bring the mail by bike in any weather.
And now he knows my face and the person he has something to carry to almost every day. Normally I am at work and in a house with more families also receiving mail is more anonymous. But I think he now doesn't wonder anymore about the woman receiving so many cards.
Thanks for reminding us of that great day!
Later in the day I arrived home from work to find all the balloons gone replaced by a lovely note that read, "You made me laugh and smile!"
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