My bride volunteers to teach high school and younger students cursive writing.

She says they think it’s like a secret language.

No, I typed them in large font in Word.  I know, pathetic.  Kids can’t read cursive anymore. 

Times change.  It’s hard enough for me to read the kind of cursive my grandfather wrote just 100 years ago.  And it’s not that different from what I was taught.  I imagine our descendants 100 years in the future will be completely unable to decipher an ordinary cursive letter we wrote.

Tell me about it. I asked my gf's friends if they had to learn cursive (we called it "writing" when I was young) in school and they said that was only done in creative writing courses. 

I agree, we don’t put sensitive stuff in there anymore. We drive it to the post office.  These were just letters to the grandchildren.

You mean like written words on paper in cursive?

Do they even know what to do with them?

😜

anyway, with some the scammers grabbing mail out of mailboxes (home and even the USPS boxes), it's probably better to not rely on the mailman to take the mail out of your mailbox.

A little over a year ago I redid the decking and balusters on my deck.  That left me with quite a pile of wood. I had also accumulated 25+ years of stuff in the basement.  I had a 20 cubic foot dumpster brought in and filled it quite easily.  Still have stuff to get rid of. I've sold a lot of stuff on FB Marketplace and Nextdoor.  Nobody wants to buy china or collector plates or plated silver goods.  I did manage to sell  our sterling silver silverware we never really used to a silver and gold place. Got pretty good money for it.