Time Capsule #18: snail mail

 

The U.S. Mail kept us in touch with family, friends, and distant lovers, as well as the Selective Service Office back home.

Remember stamps?

A domestic letter cost 5¢ in 1967 and 6¢ by sophomore year. By the time we left Hanover, it had gone up to 8¢.

Bet you don't even know what a "forever" stamp for a letter costs now, probably because you don't mail letters anymore.

 

 

Junior year, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Dartmouth College Case and during the College's Bicentennial Year, the USPS released the 6¢ Daniel Webster stamp. It would have got the letter you wrote to your mom delivered. That is, if you took the trouble to write it.

While Adele was studying in Rennes that year, I sent her aerograms every other day at 11¢ a pop.

  

 

And, believe me, I was at my Hinman box in the Hop every morning between classes around 10, looking for one from her.

 

                   

 

Ah, the handwritten letter. Those were the days. Long gone now.

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