April is... National Letter Writing Month

"Didn't we do this back in February?", you ask. Oh no, you see, both Month of Letters and InCoWriMo are both sort of home-grown letter writing celebrations. April is the bonavide month of celebrating the handwritten letter according to the U.S.P.S. (It's also National Poetry Month, National Honey Month, National Woodworking Month and National Fresh Celery Month. I made none of that up. There's a whole list here.)

There is some contraversy about the "actual" dates. Universal Letter Writing Week is the second week of January; old WPA posters have it in the first week of October. I even found reference to a National Letter Writing Day on December 7th. It doesn't appear as if anyone is truly "in charge" of these pronoucements. The first evidence I found of April being as National (Card And) Letter Writing Month is from a U.S.P.S. bulletin back in 2001.

But what does it truly matter, right? We right write letters every month, every day! But it might be something to add to your trivia night. Happy writing!

Comments

[CMN]

"Happy Celery Month"?? Hmmm... has a catchy ring to it...

[M]

I love that you said you made none of that up! Did you catch the right in "We right letters every month, every day!" Just checking - I don't want to be the grammar police! ;)

[Medusa]

I checked this link that you posted: http://www.holidaysfortoday.com/calapr14.shtml

But it does not list National (Card And) Letter Writing Month in that list!

Weird.

[Donovan Beeson]

Fixed it!

[Donovan Beeson]

I know right? The whole system for these holidays is weird.