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How letters are writing themselves into the digital age ✍️

"The digital stamp has been a winner for An Post". So say executives at the postal service who will launch the international version later this year. Both hope to encourage notes, cards and letters to be sent out on a whim, but who's even writing letters anymore and do pen and paper still have a place in our digital age? Newstalk's Sarah Madden reports.

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11.37 31 May 2023


How letters are writing themselves into the digital age ✍️


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11.37 31 May 2023


"The digital stamp has been a winner for An Post".

So say executives at the postal service who will launch the international version later this year.

Both hope to encourage notes, cards and letters to be sent out on a whim, but who's even writing letters anymore and do pen and paper still have a place in our digital age?

Newstalk's Sarah Madden reports.


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