In the age of e-mail, instant messaging and Twitter, Matthew Esler is an old-fashioned pen pal. Over the past decade, he's corresponded via snail mail with dozens of people, mostly women, from around ...

COLOMA, Mich. (WSBT) — Fourth graders and veterans finally met face to face after a year-long pen pal connection. It was all a part of a pen pal program to enhance students’ reading and writing skills ...

Self-isolation and shelter-in-place orders mean, among other things, that wanderlust is at an all-time high. But travelers are born innovators. Many are refusing to let the pandemic crush their bucket ...

LATHAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A group of local high school students are ditching the convenience of direct messaging online and sending letters the old-fashioned way, through the mail. Their pen pals are ...

Some people have one pen pal they exchange letters with on a regular basis. Megan Warantz, a 60-year-old television and movie producer from Oceanside, has 18. Melissa Bedell, a 44-year-old director of ...

CHAPIN, S.C. (WIS) - Everyone loves getting mail from friends and the people they care about. Now, you have a chance to make a new friend and give them that same feeling. Generations of Chapin is ...

Never underestimate the power of a handwritten letter. One dad recently shared the heartwarming story of how his 11-year-old daughter, Emerson, became pen pals with postal workers across the nation.

Nearly four months into a strict no-visitor rule due to the coronavirus, an assisted living community in North Carolina tapped into the power of social media to get its residents connected with people ...

Despite 50 years of friendship, pen pals Carolyn Evans and Connie McNiel had never met in person. That is, until now.

Baltimore independent bookstore The Ivy Bookshop is starting a Young Pen Pals Club to connect those ages 7-14 with each other via letter writing. Each participant will receive stationery, stamps, and ...