The Lettrs app will let you send snail mail from an iOS device. Sounds like a crossover between digital and analog communication. Two paragraphs sum up the hold handwriting still has in my life.

According to lettrs, an estimated 40 billion letters are stored in boxes, drawers and basements across the United States. The new mobile app furthers lettrs' commitment to help people preserve those beloved letters from family and friends, and to highlight the happiness in sending and receiving snail mail.

"Implicit with the phrase 'I sent you a letter' is the notion that someone took time to choose more deliberate words, more completed thoughts," Bartkiewicz says. "And the words of a letter delightfully exist without a 'reply' button hanging over them.

The app will be introduced at PostalVision 2020/3.0 and the developer will lead a panel "on the future of written communications."

It's still hard for me to imagine a world without handwriting, but this video from BBC and its emphasis on nostalgia make me wonder if insisting on handwriting will someday prevent us from realizing and appreciating new forms of communication and intimacy.