英语博客-北美风情 170、Who’s got mail?

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　　Before we had e-mail, the popular way to exchange written messages was by sending letters through snail¹ mail. Canada’s postal² service recently went through a period when they weren’t delivering mail, which inspired us to create this episode. We talk about traditional mail versus³ e-mail too, as well as Harp’s grandparents’ letters from India and Maura’s pen pal⁴ in England.

　　Harp:  So you met him on the Internet, and then you guys become pen pals⁵ and used traditional snail mail. Then you met in real life and then now you met again, years later, using Facebook.
Maura:  Yup. It’s pretty cool.
Harp:  That’s a very cool story.
Maura:  Yeah, it was fun. And it’s always fun to meet people from different places and exchange with them and get to know people. I like that.
Harp:  Yeah. I had pen pals when I was young but they were always living somewhere far and I never wrote to them for a long time. I never met any of my pen pals. That’s very cool.
Maura:  Yeah, yeah, it was fun.