28/11/2023
My son made New Yearโs Greetings postcards called Nengajo at his Japanese School over the weekend using hand carved rubber stamps. There were loads of different stamps depicting traditional Japanese symbols for welcoming the new year, including dragons as 2024 is the Year of the Dragon. ๐ Itโs a lovely tradition and long may it continue.
Our family sends out Christmas cards every year but with Royal Mail continually raising the cost of postage (ยฃ2.20 now to send a postcard to anywhere outside of the UK!), I am having to trim down our list of international friends to send cards to. Itโs something that makes me feel quite sad as I feel that sending post should not be considered an unaffordable luxury. The same postcard would cost 100 yen (about 50p) to send from Japan to London.
Iโm obviously here to encourage more people to write letters but I canโt in good conscience not acknowledge the disappointing state of affairs when it comes to the price of postage in the UK, especially during a cost of living crisis. Iโll continue to prioritise snail mail but I sincerely hope that we start seeing improvements to the Royal Mail. xoxo โ๏ธโ๏ธ๐ฎ
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