Dear you, these were the dreams
Source: Xinhua |
August 23, 2010, Monday
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HAVE you ever thought about sending a letter to yourself or your friends in the future? While normally you want your mail delivered as soon as possible there is another type of service emerging as a new business - "future mail."
Companies delivering mail as slowly as customers want are popping up all over China.
The price of the service depends on how long clients want their mail held, with longer periods being more expensive.
"The letter should be delivered next Mother's Day and not a day earlier," Lin Xiaofan, a senior high school student in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, told one of the companies offering the service.
Lin wrote the letter to her mother in advance, before she left home for college in Beijing.
"I wrote what I was feeling at the moment. And I wanted to express my thanks and love to my mother for next Mother's Day," she said.
"People can write their letters in advance and we will keep them for some period and then deliver them on the day the customer designates," Zheng Zhimin, manager at a "future mail" company in Hefei, said.
Zheng thinks "future mail" letters are "reminders of and catalysts for affection, friendship and love."
Feng Xiao moved to Beijing from Anhui Province for a job after graduation.
Although she has achieved some results in her career, she feels under pressure in her busy life.
Feng decided to write a letter to herself on her 25th birthday and have it delivered five years later on her 30th birthday through a "future mail" company in Beijing.
"I expressed my thoughts about my current life and my expectations for the future to encourage me to face up to the challenges of my life with courage," Feng said. "No matter what my life will be when I am 30 years old, I will be able to look back over the past five years when I read the words, so I'm really looking forward to it."
"People living in modern cities may feel so stressed that some of them become lonely and confused, but 'future mail' can bring some comfort to them," Fan Chenghui, a psychologist in Hefei, said.
"Some write down their life goals. This is actually a form of self-encouragement for young people."
Companies delivering mail as slowly as customers want are popping up all over China.
The price of the service depends on how long clients want their mail held, with longer periods being more expensive.
"The letter should be delivered next Mother's Day and not a day earlier," Lin Xiaofan, a senior high school student in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, told one of the companies offering the service.
Lin wrote the letter to her mother in advance, before she left home for college in Beijing.
"I wrote what I was feeling at the moment. And I wanted to express my thanks and love to my mother for next Mother's Day," she said.
"People can write their letters in advance and we will keep them for some period and then deliver them on the day the customer designates," Zheng Zhimin, manager at a "future mail" company in Hefei, said.
Zheng thinks "future mail" letters are "reminders of and catalysts for affection, friendship and love."
Feng Xiao moved to Beijing from Anhui Province for a job after graduation.
Although she has achieved some results in her career, she feels under pressure in her busy life.
Feng decided to write a letter to herself on her 25th birthday and have it delivered five years later on her 30th birthday through a "future mail" company in Beijing.
"I expressed my thoughts about my current life and my expectations for the future to encourage me to face up to the challenges of my life with courage," Feng said. "No matter what my life will be when I am 30 years old, I will be able to look back over the past five years when I read the words, so I'm really looking forward to it."
"People living in modern cities may feel so stressed that some of them become lonely and confused, but 'future mail' can bring some comfort to them," Fan Chenghui, a psychologist in Hefei, said.
"Some write down their life goals. This is actually a form of self-encouragement for young people."
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