I want to mail order something. Just once. To try it out, you know? I want to handwrite (or typewrite 👀) a personal check and fill out a physical order form and put it in an addressed envelope and put a stamp on it and mail it to some building, where a guy will open it and read my form and see my check and then put something in a box to send back to me. I just think it would be a fun experience.
I won't get a tracking number or any updates, so it will literally just be waiting until it gets here, no idea what day or time. That almost makes it more exciting to receive Something.
The fact that this was how the vast majority of long-distance commerce was done up until like 2004, and already we view it as this antiquated, strange, and insecure way of doing things is wild to me. How quickly the internet shifted the cultural zeitgeist in so many ways, in ways we don't even consider.
So yeah. Anyone know like a cool book seller or some independent shop I can still mail order from.
not quite the same but my boyfriend insists on sending me money to buy a video game he really wants me to play and i said if he really wants to go around sending me money like that, i won't make it easy for him! so he may possibly be considering sending me a postal money order in the mail for $60 just because i'm a little bit of a bitch sometimes who likes to see their puppy do tricks