It must be very romantic for lovers to write a letter to themselves, and open it several years later to recall the precious time when they had stayed together. Of course, it requires future mail service, something similar to a performance art. It is a mail delivery service like post offices but the only difference is the delivery time can decided by the senders, reminding people to pay attention to the present though the rapid development of modern society.
At present, future mail service is popular in several cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen. A girl born in the 1980s also opened a future mail service shop in Nanjing.
A microblog post, "Send a postcard to yourself – the first original postcard store in Nanjing has opened" attracted many netizens. The post said: "You can send a postcard to your future self. The postcard will be delivered at an appointed time."
The storeowner "Flowering Trees" said that her store began offering the future mail service on Dec. 24 last year. The store has customers almost every day, and sometimes receives 20 to 30 customers a day. She has accumulated several hundred postcards to be sent in the future. Most of her customers are young people and couples. The two most delayed postcards are from a couple who want to "receive" each other’s mood and true feelings 10 years later to mark their eternal love. The oldest customer is an elderly woman who picked a postcard in the store, wrote words of love and encouragement, and wants it to be sent to her granddaughter when she grows up.
The future mail service reflects a leisure attitude toward life.
Read the Chinese version: “80后”姑娘南京开慢递店
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