By now everyone who has an e-mail address is used to chain letters. Sometimes they come with nice stories or something funny, but they're all the same: they say send to X amount of people and you will have good luck or something good will happen, etc.

Truth to tell, I laugh at the funny ones and enjoy the funny pictures but do not pass them on. I don't know if my friends want this sort of thing sent to their e-mail boxes (some of them are quite large, with photos), so I don't.

But does anyone remember real chain letters? They used to arrive by mail and ask you to make five or ten copies of the letter and send to friends and you would have good luck. If not you would break the chain and have bad luck.

Some asked for money, like put a dollar, and add your name to a list and you would eventually get money back. Superstitious people lost money this way and the post office finally declared chain letters illegal. If you were found out originating a chain letter you could be fined or even sent to prison.

I hadn't seen one of the original version in years. Lo and behold (an old practice deserves an old clichè), we got one in the mail the other day.

The kicker was that it was in our forwarded mail and it was addressed to my father!

Got news for ya, buddy. My dad—and my mom—don't need good luck anymore: they already have it; they're in Heaven.

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I remember getting chain letters in the mail with no return address. Argh! Snailmail spam!

# posted by  Anonymous : 8:38:00 PM

 

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