Remember the time when we had no phone, internet and not even proper basic transport? Nowadays we just swipe and click, the food arrives at your door, the cab arrives at your door. Who knows in the future there might come a day when we get to have a flight stop just like a bus stop. Because the technology is evolving so fast and there might be a chance for anything if the man can land on mars this ain’t impossible for him.
Postcards were the source of relationships and the boats that waved words from one corner to another. For at least five decades the Indian households have revolved around letters, postcards, money orders.
October 9th is the day recognized as world post day.
Now we have phones to text someone and make sure they are okay, or just a happy b’day is enough to wish someone for their special occasion and applying job to has become a very simplified process. You only build a resume and start applying where ever you want through websites and apps, but in the olden days’ none of these amenities were available all people did was wait for months to receive a simple note from their loved ones in other parts of the country or states.
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Remember that picture when people used to stand at the gate waiting for hours for the postman to arrive it was a scene for decades ago and it was a normal life back then. Whether to receive a small money order or to wait for the reply from a company you would have had to wait for hours but now it is all simplified.
Would a man have imagined that one day a wire would have offered them endless means of communication of a slate-like device would have connected them to people from all around the world?
Without these letters, most people would have got no job and without these letters, there wouldn’t be a large part of history.
Gandhi never spent a day without writing letters. Nehru was in jail and wrote family letters to his daughter Indira. Writing a letter is a courtesy. It is an honor to receive the letter. Friendship is about writing letters to each other. But there was also a time when the letter business was considered expensive and only riches could afford it.
The poor and the middle-class people started writing letters only when the red box emerged on the roads.
In the ’70s and ’80s, people had to wait for the money sent to them by their son or daughter who was earning because in those days no one had accounts, and online transfers and phone calls? Where a million year ahead dream.
The postmen were treated no less than a waiting relative by the people. They would keep them charged by providing food, drinks, and money to ensure they got hands-on their letter sooner than expected.
The postcards were sent by daughters and sons studying away and the letter was written by parents to their sons in the army. Money transferred for exams. Questions asked about dinner, health, and much more all hid in these letters for thousands of years.
Today’s story may have changed. Everyone has a cell phone but the human touch is far gone and there is nothing but machines and Artificial Intelligence. Back then people were desperate to talk to each other but now people are so engrossed in their phones and there is barely any meaningful conversation.
