Pen Pals

 

Pen Pals or PenPals or Pen friends are people who regularly write to each other via postal or emails. 

 

In pen pal relationship, friends often used to practice reading and writing in a foreign language, to learn more about other countries and their life-styles to make friends and to improve literacy.

Some people remain pen pals for only a short time, while others continue to exchange letters and presents. Some pen pals arrange to meet face to face, sometimes leading to further relationships, or even marriage.

Pen pals come in all ages, nationalities and cultures. Generally pals seek new pen friends based on their own age group, hobby, a specific occupation, or select someone totally different from them to gain knowledge about the world around them.

 

Now a day’s pals exchange email addresses and communicate through mails instead of paper letters, and by doing this they save time as well as energy. The only disadvantage we see in this is that the communication can be very ephemeral if the email messages are not routinely saved.

Many people prefer to receive paper letters only, they gain satisfaction by seeing their name carefully printed on a thick envelope in the letterbox. Using postal mails, it is possible to trade coupons, swap slips, postcards, stamps as well and anything else like called "tuck-ins" can be exchanged. Many pen friends like to exchange note cards and stationery sets at times.