Comment by bigstrat2003

Comment by bigstrat2003 11 hours ago

Physical mail isn't difficult, even now, for anyone with a modicum of competence. I can understand if someone hasn't used physical mail before, but it's very easy to look up how to send a letter + buy envelopes and stamps. If someone cannot do that without difficulty, they really need to work on their basic life skills.

carstenhag 10 hours ago

Buying a stamp in the home country is doable for most people. But even then, imagine you are 20, how many mails do you think will you have sent?

For a different country, I'd have no idea. Especially if it's so far away like the USA and I can't locally get a special reply post stamp. What I would have done is to put in 5€ in the envelope and call it a day. The person would probably be happy seeing other money.

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mvdtnz 9 hours ago

His difficulty was finding postage stamps for the self-addressed return envelope, and clearly the author is not American. Do you think it would be quite so easy to "buy envelopes and stamps" if you had to send a stamped return envelope to Nepal or Manila? Is that a "basic life skill" or would you have to do a little research to figure out what you'd need?

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Symbiote 7 hours ago

He had difficulty writing an address on an envelope.
This skill is something we expect of 8 year old children.

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- singpolyma3 an hour ago
  
  Maybe we used to. When sending letters was still a thing people did.
  
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