Please Mr. Postman, bring me a letter
Published 25 May, 2009, 18:33
School children from the southern Russian city of Novorossiysk are teaching the French to write letters the old-fashioned way.
They took part in a contest held by Parisian Musee de La Poste (Postal Museum) which set up a competition aimed at boosting the popularity of handwritten letters.
Russian children were asked to create unconventional messages to attract attention to paper-and-pencil letters, and came up with nine oeuvres.
Novorossiysk news agency reports that one of the contestants, 12-year-old Yulia Kervalidze, wrote her message on a mammoth tusk and entitled it ‘Nothing and no one is for ever in the world’.
But seven-year-old Tanya Shveiko decided to go further and sewed a hand-made coat. Much to everybody’s surprise, she also hid a letter entitled ‘Looking for soul-mate owner’ in the pocket.
Whether the Postal museum use the children’s ideas or not, Russian pupils have definitely given the French some food for thought.
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