Evolution of Snail Mail

Evolution of Snail Mail

Nyle A. Pardillo, MS-Crop Science

            What is a snail mail? According to Merriam Webster dictionary, snail mail is an ordinary mail that is delivered by a postal system. It is named after a snail with its low speed or after the snail trail, the one that is used to glue an envelope. In nonprofessional term, snail mail is a process where the letters delivered takes a long time before it can reach to a receiver.

      Writing letter is a form of communication. People wrote letter when they wanted to inform their love ones about their situation and their lives. People even wrote letter to express their feelings to the person they like in another towns, province or regions. These letters when delivered in the postal office are in different types depending on the kind of letter you have made. There are special, regular and ordinary. These can be known based on the stamps that glued in the envelope of your letter.

     As I remembered before, my mother wrote a letter to my aunt who lived far away from our hometown. My mother wrote in a five pages yellow paper and all the things she wants to inform and let my aunt know, she wrote it there. She would send it to a post office in an ordinary mail. We would wait a month to get a reply from my aunt. Despite the long time of waiting the reply, the message of the letter answered the excitement and questions that my mother wanted to read and know. However, we could not erase the fact that sometimes, the message that was delivered was not timely.

   The evolution of communication came. The telephone invented. However, telephone needs line in order for it to function and most of the telephones are located only in the heart of the town. Telephone is not handy and it is good for voice messaging. Telephone evolves into cellular phones. Cellular phones are handy and people keep buying on it despite the cost. Cellular phones could perform text and voice messaging with other features on games, camera and others. Then computer and internet made available and it made it more accessible to people and improve the communication better.

            Despite the evolution of communication, people still writing letters and used postal delivery services. Most of the companies used this type of system to their customers because it is cheap. It also gives excitement and surprise to the receiver unknowingly what is in the inside of the envelope.