CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, (PNA) -– At least 185 students from various schools, colleges and universities here joined the observance of the “World Post Day” last Wednesday, Nimia S. Acebes, area director of the Philippines Postal Office here said.
Acebes said on Thursday that the first National Letter Writing Day highlighted the observance of this year’s “World Post Day” in cooperation with various schools here.
She said that the revival of letter writing aims to keep good values and letter writing alive and valid even with the advent of high tech communication that the new generation now enjoys.
Acebes said that the activity was one way of instilling in the minds of students the indescribable feeling of writing personal letters laced with passion and creative eccentricity that the modern communication gadgets could not provide.
The students brought with them writing materials. They were given the same theme in writing which is giving thanks to someone they want to send their gratitude, she said.
In return, the Philpost provided stamps and letter boxes and the letters would be delivered to recipients or addressee.
After writing and putting their stamped letters in the mailboxes, the students would be given coupons to give them a chance in the regional raffle where a winner would receive P 3,000 cash and the school where the student came from would be extended goods and in kind worth P 3,000, too.
The first National Letter Writing Day is part of PHLPost’s postal awareness program “SulatMulat.” It intends to re-introduce the art of letter writing to students and encouraging them to use letters as a means of communication., Acebes added.